Daft Punk unleashed a "Random Access Memory" teaser featuring Pharrell at Coachella!
It's probably safe to say that there's a lot of anticipation surrounding your new album when you tease it to thousands at Coachella and it turns into one of the most talked-about and shared clips from the ENTIRE festival. That's exactly what happened with "Get Lucky," a minute-and-a-half of footage from the lead track off French dance icons Daft Punk's forthcoming Random Access Memory. (The broke scrubs who couldn't make it out to Coachella got a glimpse of Daft Punk's teaser on "Saturday Night Live." Thanks, free network TV!)
Watch Daft Punk's "Get Lucky" teaser featuring Pharrell after the jump.
"Get Lucky" isn't even the most obsessive fan clip to come out of the lead-up to Random Access Memories, Daft Punk's first proper LP since 2005. When the band teased a short snippet of the track's riff on a commercial last month, someone looped it over and over for 10 minutes -- and it was glorious enough to enjoy the whole way through. Turns out the full song, or at least as much of it as fans got to see in the teaser, is even better. The future-disco track features sultry vocals from Pharrell and guitar from funk icon Nile Rodgers.
"We're up all night to get lucky," Pharrell croons, before the line morphs into a robotic incantation. It's a classic Daft Punk marriage of heart and technology.
"We wanted to do what we used to do with machines and samplers," Thomas Bangalter, one-half of Daft Punk with Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, told Rolling Stone, "but with people."
"There's this thing today where the recorded human voice is processed to try to feel robotic," Thomas went on. "Here, we were trying to make robotic voices sound the most human they've ever sounded, in terms of expressivity and emotion."
