Electronic - Musicology Blog

Daft Punk Built an Analog Temple. The Internet Worshipped It.

Electronic, Pop / 2010s, Columbia Records, Daft Punk, Disco, French house, funk, Get Lucky, Grammy Winner, Nile Rodgers, Pharrell Williams, Random Access Memories

Daft Punk | Get Lucky The Paradox A 15-second TV teaser became a 10-hour YouTube loop, and a song built to reject the internet broke Spotify’s all-time streaming record, the contradiction at the heart of “Get Lucky” never really resolved itself. Somewhere in early 2013, somebody took a 15-second television clip and looped it into […]

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Nobody Wanted “Toxic” (Then It Won Everything)

Britney Spears | Toxic Three Rejections and a Masterpiece Rolling Stone’s #9 song of the 21st century was turned down by Janet Jackson, Kylie Minogue, and nearly killed by Britney’s own label, and yet it became the consensus greatest pop single of its generation. Rolling Stone’s ninth-greatest song of the twenty-first century was turned down