The short version: Daft Punk was known for their house and electronica music (I have a couple of their CD and they make regular appearances on my playlists). They wrote and recorded the score for the Tron remake in 2010. For "Random Access Memory", they decided to make a shift and pull off a pretty impressive marketing campaign for "Get Lucky", which is how they became one of those "eight-year overnight successes".
As for the significance of the helmets: they're real people in there, and what they do (especially with live shows) is not something you could just have someone else play the role (think Barney Gumbel as Krusty The Clown). There's another electronic music performer called deadmau5 (pronounced "dead mouse") who regularly DJs in an oversized head, and it'd be pretty damned obvious if it wasn't him. On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 11:19 AM, PGage <pga...@gmail.com> wrote: > Interesting note: "Daft Punk’s planned appearance had already been a > source of stress for “Colbert” since the group was only willing to appear > in costume, and not perform or sit for an interview." > > Is this saying that even if the appearance had gone as planned they would > not have sung their song, and just showed up (without even doing an > interview)? Why would MTV even have objected to that? If their costume is > those weird helmets on their heads, and they were not going to sing or > talk, why not just put two stage hands in helmets? > > As I say, I missed the significance of this at first, because I assumed > the entire thing was a joke - the promo of the group in advance and the > excuse for why they did not show up. I do know who Robin Thicke is, and > know his song, so I thought the joke was that Colbert was excited about > having this ridiculous, made-up group that he thought had the song of the > summer, and then wound up "settling" for the guy who really did have the > song of the summer. The song he danced to even sounded like a made-up song > to me. I guess I am the only one in the country who was not familiar with > these guys. Do we know what they actually look like, or do they just > perform with helmets? > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
