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Pharrell Williams Hears Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky” For The 1st Time: Watch

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Daft Punk have shared a new installment in their, Memory Tapes, documentary series commemorating the 10th anniversary of their iconic album, Random Access Memories. With the videos, they’ve been sharing interviews with various collaborators from the project, The newest release features Pharrell Williams, and includes his reaction to hearing “Get Lucky” for the first time.

“When they brought me in to write on the album, I thought I was just writing for someone else,” Williams says in the video. “So, in my mind, I’m like, ‘Oh, okay, I’m writing this for someone. Okay, I think this is Michael-esque…’ It’s all feeling.” From there he explained that the making of the song took much longer than he expected. “Now I understand the value of taking the time to iron it out, it could be perfection,” he remarked. “That’s the difference between a human and a robot.”

Read More: Pharrell Tells The Story Of Meeting Daft Punk

Pharrell Williams & Daft Punk Accept Grammy For “Get Lucky”

LOS ANGELES, CA – JANUARY 26: (L-R) Recording artists Pharrell Williams, Daft Punk and Nile Rodgers accept the Best Pop Duo/Group Performance award for ‘Get Lucky’ onstage during the 56th GRAMMY Awards at Staples Center on January 26, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Larry Busacca/WireImage)

“By the time the song was done, I didn’t know who was gon’ end up singing it,” he further said. “I didn’t hear it for a year, I forgot what the song sounded like — both of them,” he added, referencing his other song on the album, “Lose Yourself to Dance.” Check out the full episode of Daft Punk’s Memory Tapes below.

Pharrell Reflects On Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky”

“Get Lucky” helped earn Daft Punk and Pharrell two Grammy Awards, including one for Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. The song also spent five consecutive weeks at the number-one spot on the US Billboard Hot 100. Despite being one of the most renowned electronic music duos of all time, Draft Punk split up in 2021.

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Pharrell Reminisces About His Mystical First Meetings With Daft Punk In A New Mini-Documentary

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Daft Punk hung up their robot helmets and officially broke up years ago, but they’ve been in the news lately as they celebrate the tenth anniversary of their final album, Random Access Memories. The campaign has included a scavenger hunt and previously unreleased songs, and now they’re rolling out a series of mini-documentaries, focused on the collaborators who helped bring the album to life.

The duo started sharing installments, which run from 7 to 12 minutes in length, last week and have posted new videos daily since. There are seven episodes as of this post, and in a recent one, Pharrell reminisces about what it was like to first meet and work with the duo.

As DMY notes, the interview clips were originally recorded in 2013, during the making of the album. In the video, Pharrell explained that he first saw the duo (“the robots,” as he refers to them throughout) at a Madonna party, where Pharrell expressed a keen interest in working with the pair. Eventually, they met up in Paris, where Pharrell noted that he was in a Nile Rodgers phase at the moment. Daft Punk then played Pharrell a song they were working on, which had guitar from Rodgers. (The song? “Get Lucky.”)

Pharrel then noted that the duo gave him a tablet dissolved in water, which gave him a burst of energy. By the time he got back on the plane, though, Pharrell had “forgotten everything,” which had him wondering if the pair pulled a Men In Black memory erasure on him.

Watch the Pharrell video above and find the other mini-doc installments on the Daft Punk YouTube channel.

Daft Punk To Premiere Unreleased Song For 10th Anniversary Of “Random Access Memories”

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Daft Punk will be premiering an unreleased song on Thursday at The Centre Pompidou in Paris. The event marks the 10th anniversary of the group’s final album, Random Access Memories. The track is titled “Infinity Repeating,” and will feature Julian Casablancas. It also will be included in the duo’s 10th-anniversary reissue of Random Access Memories, which releases Friday.

“The Centre Pompidou unveils in world premiere Infinity Repeating (2013 Demo), an unreleased track by Daft Punk (feat. Julian Casablancas + The Voidz, 2013),” a statement on the venue’s website reads. “This song features on the 10th anniversary edition of the famous album Random Access Memories which won 5 Grammy awards, available from 12 May.” They go on to describe the event as having three ways to engage with it. One is through an “ultra-high fidelity listening experience, with a sound system composed of over 30 speakers.” A second is a “cinematic experience,” while a third is described as a “collective experience.”

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Daft Punk At The Grammys

LOS ANGELES, CA – JANUARY 26: Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (L) and Thomas Bangalter of Daft Punk attend the 56th GRAMMY Awards at Staples Center on January 26, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

Daft Punk first announced they’d be breaking up with an eight-minute “Epilogue” video released back in 2021. While they didn’t immediately explain the decision, member Thomas Bangalter recently provided further details during an interview with BBC in April. “[In Daft Punk,] we tried to use these machines to express something extremely moving that a machine cannot feel, but a human can,” Bangalter told the outlet. “We were always on the side of humanity and not on the side of technology… As much as I love this character, the last thing I would want to be, in the world we live in, in 2023, is a robot.”

“Infinity Repeating” isn’t the only time that Daft Punk has collaborated with Julian Casablancas. He also appeared on the song, “Instant Crush,” which is featured on the original Random Access Memories tracklist. Other collaborations on the project include Giorgio Moroder, Panda Bear, Todd Edwards, DJ Falcon, Chilly Gonzales, Nile Rodgers, Paul Williams, Nathan East, and Pharrell Williams. The group previously reissued their pivotal debut album, Homework, last year.

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