Daft Punk copied the bests parts of their music from others… :-(
July 20th, 2007
I found the Youtubeflick below and was quite surprised:
I have a Daft Punk CD and I like it, but I had no clue that the best most catchy parts of their songs are from other people.
Basically some of their best catch lines are rip offs. Now does that actually make the music poorer? I mean it really should not, but somehow, it just seem more stale.
Here I was thinking that they were brilliant musicians and all (and I guess they are to some extend), but somehow I am not so impressed as I would have been (or rather were) – if they had actually made everything themselves…
So I am thinking: Does it matter? Which is more important? to have ideas or to employ them smartly? And then it ties straight into innovation.
For instance the Ipod that everybody loves: Apple did not invent all the components. They were clever at getting the right stuff and combining it the right way (and iterate). That doesen’t matter that much to me, I still think they are clever, but somehow, for the music it felt different.
Anyway ripping content from Barry Manilow rofl.
Anyway here is a goddie:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6744613513056235023UPDATE (2-08-2007): Amazing hand action video
July 22nd, 2007 at 10:40 am
Erm — they are DJs. Sampling music is what DJs do. Surely you don’t think Fatboy Slim, Moby or Chemical Brothers wrote the majority of their music, so why expect that of Daft Punk?
It’s not very likely that you have an Edwin Birdsong or Banny Manilow LP sitting around, and if you did, you wouldn’t listen to it just for the 5-second loop found by Daft Punk.
Personally, I find this far more creative than the bland covers being churned out by the latest boy-band or girl-band.
July 22nd, 2007 at 11:36 am
Well,
I actually thought that Daft Punk was an elctroband and that made the majority of the stuff themselves.
I had no idea that was how they made their numbers. Although several people have pointed out that this is common knowledge I simply had another impression.
I still like the CD I have with their music, but it changed in value, because I thought that they actually did the whole thing themselves. That was more the point. I thought more of them.
August 26th, 2009 at 4:47 am
The definition of genius is to see the same thing as everyone else and extrapolate something great from.
1 million people leaned back in their chairs but it took Enstien to derive E=MC2 from it.
5 million people had been hit by apples, it took newton to deduce the laws of gravity.
25.32 million people have heard manilow, it took Daft Punk to make it sound good.
I rest my case…