Get Lucky (Daft Punk song)
April 19, 2013
Get Lucky is a song by French House formation Daft Punk and the American singer and rapper Pharrell Williams.
Genesis
The origin of the song required 18 months. Thomas Bangalter and Guy- Manuel de Homem - Christo began to develop a chord progression and an organ motif. They commissioned the jazz drummer Omar Hakim and jazz bassist Nathan East with the recording of the rhythm section. Then, Nile Rodgers played in the Ladyland Studios in Manhattan to the guitar part. Pharrell Williams traveled to Paris to develop a melody and record his vocals.
Instead of using an Internet campaign, the single was announced with billboards. It was followed by cuts in the television show Saturday Night Live, and finally a video message at the Coachella Festival.
Reception
Pitchfork editor Andy Beta enhanced with " Best New Track" and writes the elegance of the song Nile Rodgers. Rodgers lively and timeless guitar riff imitate the scratchy lines with which he had contributed 1979 We Are Family by Sister Sledge.
Barry Lenser criticized for Popmatters.com the sometimes blunt and chunky vocals of Williams in the verses, though he shine in the chorus. Daft Punk compensated with this powerful of a vocoder distorted voices to everyone to remember who make the show.
The editors of ezines Laut.de chose the song for the best song of the year and wrote:
" Daft Punk had the glorious idea to teach their robots radio - steps and picked up this Nile Rodgers into the boat. Those Nile, the guitar god Johnny Marr once inspired the naming of his son. So much for the manifold influences of the legendary Rodgers guitar. That Pharrell then anfügte an irrefutable hit tune, that thing was doing right around. Lose yourself to dance, everybody "
Also in the year hit list of the New Musical Express Get Lucky occupied the first place.
Edits
The song has been frequently edited a short time after its release from other artists and remixed. The media service Meedia wrote the end of June, 2013, that would find "on YouTube" " over a million records to cover versions of " Get Lucky. In particular resonance encountered most notably three treatments: on the one composed of speeches by U.S. President Barack Obama version of the YouTube channel baracksdubs, which was considered within a few days several million times and linked by major online media and described. Secondly, a "Evolution of Get Lucky" titled video of PV Nova, in which the song is played in chronological order in the style of each decade since 1920. Questlove and Captain Kirk Douglas of The Roots who covered the piece in the show Late Night with Jimmy Fallon in the style of Simon & Garfunkel, whereby they ended it with a quote from The Boxer. George Barnett also scored with his reinterpretation of the title within a very short time, several million views on Youtube. The Austrian band Russkaya coverte Get Lucky also on their EP " Barada " and released a short video of this on YouTube .. The Argentine comedy duo "Lady Guita " entitled " Despiertos para ponerla " (literally: "They stood around to put " ). According to the artist, the version was created in the fun at a typical Argentine Guitarrera ( guitar jam session) on the celebration of a friend as an adaptation of the Argentine folk style " Chacarera ". This was followed by the idea of this, to make a video, in which Daft Punk in their characteristic robot masks in the Argentine Pampa on two Gauchos meet to get to know each other better and eventually become friends. This (like the Argentine version of the text) in the satirical -styled video is peppered with numerous clichés about the Argentine gauchos, but also clearly demonstrates the self-irony, the hospitality and the special joke of Argentines.
Charts
In May 2013 Get Lucky reached number 1 in the German charts. The song reached the top spot in the singles charts, including Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, France, Greece, Italy, Ireland, Iceland, Israel, Luxembourg, Portugal, Scotland, Spain and Hungary in numerous other countries. In addition, the song was 13 weeks at the top of the U.S. dance charts, which meant a new record at this time. However, Get Lucky had already at the end give the record again, as Wake Me Up of Avicii surpassed the number and it brought even at 26 number-one weeks.