Daft Punk, Part Two: "Get Lucky"

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Music Commentary, Music Interviews, Onesong, Comedy, Music

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🗓️ 21 March 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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It’s time: The peak of the pyramid! On this episode of One Song, Diallo and LUXXURY explore what is, arguably, Daft Punk’s creative and commercial zenith: Get Lucky. Together with generational defining acts, Pharrell and Nile Rodgers, Daft Punk craft a song that became an instant classic. Luxxury, of course, has the stems. And is ready to take you inside this infectious slice of funk.

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0:00.0	Hello, One Song Nation.
0:04.8	Diyala Riddle here.
0:05.6	A quick reminder that this is the second part of our daft punk special.
0:09.3	If you haven't already heard part one, I suggest you go back and listen before you enjoy this monumental episode and bathe in the glory of some Nile Rogers' isolated guitar stems, Ferell's vocals, and our favorite, favorite Dap Punk samples
0:22.9	of all time. This is One Song.
0:31.2	Welcome back to One Song, luxury. Tell us the story of how Get Lucky got composed.
0:37.2	Story begins in New York, where Nile Rogers meets up with the boys from Daft Punk,
0:41.3	with Toma and Guillemann, who are now men, I suppose. This is a little bit later. This is
0:45.0	2008. They had met before 10 years earlier at a record release party. Nile
0:49.9	Rogers was already a fan. He loved that first track to funk, that first, one of the first singles from
0:54.3	Homework. In any case, he meets up with Daft Punk. They talk about working together. And one of the
1:00.6	themes for the album that the boys had been discussing, they wanted to make an album as though
1:05.7	the internet never existed. That was the mission statement. So they had started with, they already
1:10.0	had a demo, and it sounded a little bit like this.
1:12.0	I think it's interesting to hear pre-Nile Rogers.
1:14.5	You can hear everything but guitar and vocals on this early take.
1:17.9	And this is actually on Spotify.
1:19.5	It's called GL Early Take.
1:32.1	Okay. Wow.
1:38.5	It's interesting about that is that it's more complicated, right?
1:39.9	They have this B section.
1:41.5	There's no B section in the song.
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