Daft Punk: users react with memes to the duo’s separation

This week started with bad news for all followers Funny sly, and that’s it The French duo announced their separation after a 28-year career.

The news made the social network Twitter vibrate, and the names of the musicians immediately became a trend with the generation of an average of 32 tweets per second, according to the Visibrain cabinet.

Users shared surprise memes and a lot of sadness for the separation.

They announce their separation

The group, made up of Thomas Bangalter, 46, and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, 47, he posted on YouTube a video called “Epilogue”, with scenes from his movie “Electroma” and in which they both walk through the desert with their usual headphones.

In the end, one of them fires a detonator on the back of the other, which, after a countdown of 60 seconds, ends up blowing up. In the picture, it says “1993-2021”.

In this way, without prior notice, one of the most important electronic music and symbol groups of “French Touch” ended its successful collaboration, which was rewarded with six Grammy Awards.

However, 14 years have passed since the Parisian duo held concerts, limiting their few shows to television ceremonies, such as the Grammy gala.

“Punk stupid”

Daft Punk, whose members met in high school, released their first album “Homework” in 1997, strongly inspired by “house” and techno music.

From its beginnings, it conquered dance floors with songs such as “Around the world” and “Da Funk”.

The name of the French group echoes the expression used by an influential English music weekly to criticize the first single from their previous band Darlin ‘: “stupid punk”.

In 2001, the French duo released “Discovery”, an even more popular album with songs such as “Once Again” and “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger”, recycling 1980s disco and pop music.

Four years later, they disappointed their audience with another darker album, “Human After All.”

However, vvthey smelled louder to the point where their biggest hit was the single “Good Luck”, since 2013, he has played alongside Pharrell Williams and millions of copies have been sold worldwide.

The track was included on their fourth and final album, “Memories with random access”, for which Daft Punk broke with the French record label and signed a contract with American Columbia (Sony).

It fuels the mystery

His robotic headphones, which first appeared in the video “Around the World”, fed his mysterious aura, a way to protect himself from his own popularity, while keeping the curiosity of his fans, always looking to find internet an image that will reveal their faces.

In a documentary broadcast by the British network BBC in 2015, Bangalter said: “We have a much more normal day (…) than the lives of artists who enjoy the same popularity, but who must give more importance to be physically recognized. “

“For us, it is more important to believe that we have participated in the evolution of the music world” than to limit ourselves to being “musicians who mechanically link albums and tours”, Bangalter added in the film “Electroma, 30 years of French electronic music” “, also called” French touch “, according to the term popularized by the Anglo-Saxon press.

In recent years, the Parisian duo has limited themselves to collaborating with Canadian The Weeknd for the songs “Starboy” and “I Feel It Coming”, before producing the song “Overnight” by the Australian group Parcels.

In total, Daft Punk sales worldwide amount to 12 million copies.

with information from AFP

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