Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

"Contact" is the only one that doesn't really do anything for me. The rest is great.

attn markers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nv7Qicg2Og

(first 30 seconds)

lol i know about that! :D

thanks to ilx, actually

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUKCQfLY7nQ

seriously though i used to see the lord tariq and peter gunz video on mtv. i guess i must've been like 9 or 10 or 11 or something

seriously though i used to see the lord tariq and peter gunz video on mtv.

get outta town

yeah markers trying to pull one over on us

Over the weekend, I heard someone pull out Get Lucky for karaoke for the first time. Sounded amazing...granted the singer was a karaoke expert and could really belt it.

YOU THINK I'M MAKING THAT UP BALLS

http://vimeo.com/62413601

Then I came across my man RJ parlayin' in a 6
With Tatyana Ali playin'
I heard Steely Dan "Black Cow" and went wild

I don't have cable. Are they on right now?

oh wait it's not 11:30 yet.

They're a no show.

Colbert's handling of their no-show = brilliant.

Bad news: Daft Punk were the scheduled guests for tonight's episode of "The Colbert Report". They were headlining this year's StePhest Colbchella, and were presumably going to perform "Get Lucky", but the appearance has been canceled. Apparently, this is because they're scheduled to make a surprise appearance at the VMAs, and performing on "Colbert" would breach their contractual obligation with MTV.

this sucks.

lol

MTV and Comedy Central are both Viacom properties iirc so you'd think they'd not care if there was some cross-promotion

yeah, CC is part of the MTV Networks Entertainment Group. I get it, but I don't get it.

Well, Van Toffler's peeps were feeling funky about it, y'know.

Well it's going to take a lot more than this to make me watch the VMAs.

this now seems like a set up to me. it seemed very strange that their first late night thing would be The Colbert Report.

Nah, this is too mean-spirited to be a set up.

HEY THAT BAND YOU LOVE, YOU GET TO SEE THEM ON TV! SIKE! NO YOU DON'T!

i was pretty amped to find out what the heck they were gonna actually do for a performance :(

i was bummed to hear it was going to be a performance, i was pretty amped to find out what the heck they were gonna actually do for an interview

yeah I feel like there's no way Daft Punk could pull off a live performance of any of these songs.

deathgrips should've stepped in

They got Robin Thicke performing Blurred Lines instead, so at least he got another 'song of the summer' being performed.

The fuck are they doing in the VMA's anyway? Daft Punk never released a full video for 'get lucky'.

So much for a 'surprise' appearance too.

We're up all night to get lied to.

I'm totally okay with Stephen ruining the "surprise".

MTV would probably stop Lady Gaga from releasing her single 4 days before the VMAs if they could.

So, Colbert's revenge was to ruin the surprise? If it really was a surprise it doesn't make any sense. If they were a secret VMA perfomance, why would it matter if they were on Colbert, they didn't have any viewers to lose.

Also, since when does MTV care about music?

I'm mad dissapointed at Daft Punk for choosing MTV over Colbert.

Fwiw, Nile Rodgers was on Fallon tonight. I don't know if that means anything.

So I'm sitting here watching Colbert and thinking that what he put together on short notice that he wouldn't have Daft Punk was absolutely brilliant.

But then I read suspicions that it was all a plan to promote Daft Punk on the VMAs.

I don't know why I'm so intrigued by this, but I would really like to know the truth. If it was a set up, that's shady. If they scrambled and did this, amazing.

Show was great regardless. "Flan Cobbler" lol.

I guess what I'm saying is that I hope tomorrow we got the Colbert vs. Daft Punk version of "Death Grips never intended to appear at those shows"

Why would anyone dwell in a set up that results in dissapointment instead of excitement? All I'm reading right now are angry and sad fans expressing their mot incere fuck yous to everyone involved.

Yeah, if this was all a stunt to hype up DP appearing on the VMAs, I'd be really surprised. Unlike Death Grips, Stephen Colbert isn't a complete asshole.

His voice certainly cracked with sincerity when he said something like "MTV has exclusive rights to DP appearances leading up to the VMAs, a fact no one mentioned to me until 2 o'clock yesterday."

Assuming it was all real - which I agree is the better assumption - then I wanna read a detailed account of the staff's efforts from the minute they realized they weren't getting DP to air. From the outside looking in, it seems monumental.

What I don't understand is how would Daft Punk not be aware of their legal obligations with MTV when the exclusivity prevents them from showing up anywhere other than on the fucking VMAs? Also Colbert has been hyping it up for a week or more, wasnt there a single lawyer in any of the two networks following this? they waited until the last day to say, oops not coming?

I'd bet the Hugh Laurie bit was filmed last night with a different intent. Either that, or he was still nearby. Matt Damon is always up for something dorky like dancing in a box. Jeff Bridges was probably around for one reason or another. Colbert and Fallon are tight. Colbert and somebody at America's Got Talent are probably tight too. Not sure who the dance troupe was, but I bet they were in the neighborhood and were happy to be on tv.

Getting Robin Thicke + band there on short notice is the headscratcher. Maybe they all live in NYC?

Oh yeah, and I forgot about the whole Charlie Rose/Breaking Bad crew/Cranston part. I wonder how late they actually filmed the episode. iirc they usually film at 7, but I bet it was pushed back so they could get all this stuff wrapped.

The Thicke segment was prerecorded.

Sure, call all the celebs in NYC you can and see who's willing, then go film a bit with each of them ... but in 24 hours? If that's really the time frame they were dealing with, of course. Maybe they saw a problem coming and got going a day or two before.

It's entirely possible, however, that all or most of them were filmed with a different intent. That would make it a lot more reasonable.

Or maybe I don't have a good sense for what kind of time/effort this would take.

Agree that Thicke is the biggest hurdle of all. And the fact that it was him, with the "song of the summer" tie-in, is the best argument for the set up theory.

Fwiw, Nile Rodgers was on Fallon tonight. I don't know if that means anything.

I'm mad dissapointed at Daft Punk for choosing MTV over Colbert.

Well The Colbert Report wasn't around in the early 80s, whereas MTV was.

I'm mad that I missed the window on making Death Grips jokes

I am pleased i didn't

it's okay, I just went to Twitter/Facebook instead