Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

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

good to see Kissinger getting yet even more post-war crimes work

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/07/things-get-kind-of-crazy-among-colbert-daft-punk-and-mtv/?smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0

ok lol @ "Click and Clack"

colbert is a fantastic dancer

Soooo, in lieu of the band that cancelled, Colbert already had this cameo-studded singalong montage taped?

It's my suspicion, and I mentioned this upthread, that some or all of the stuff may have been filmed a short while ago with the intent of using it in a very different way than it was used last night.

He is a great dancer! Most of the clips were extracted from his previous dancing appearances in other shows to promote 'Colbchella'.

According to three people who were briefed on the talks or directly involved in them, 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.

This, though, if they weren't perfoming or getting interviewed what was this all about? They were just going to stand there and maybe do some awkward dance?

I already don't think Random Access Memories is very good, and now this is souring me on them altogether. FUDP

According to three people who were briefed on the talks or directly involved in them, 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. Then on Monday, while flying to New York from Paris, the group called producers to cancel, citing the conflict with MTV, according to these people, who spoke anonymously because of the privacy of the matter and the volatility of the personalities involved.

Seems like filming a bunch of dance sequences was probably a good plan even if they were showing up.

According to three people who were briefed on the talks or directly involved in them, 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.

Uh what were they going to do exactly, stand around?

hahaha xpost

Death Grips non-show must be involved in this too, right?

They could have sat on the shelf like Michael Stipe, with or without Eno:

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.spinner.com/media/2011/11/colbert-stipe-eno-456.jpg

Urgh. Come on. This isn't difficult. They booked Daft Punk about a month ago and have spent the lead time preparing a montage for the show. Most of the guests in the montage were on the show in the last month and were presumably shot while they were around (Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon is from a box skit they did the night he was on). And recently Colbert has been coming out on various other shows dancing to Get Lucky. I don't know when they shot Kissinger but I laughed my face off.

Flash forward, shit goes down, Daft Punk cancel yesterday. They decide to run the montage anyway since it takes all of after the first ad break and they fill the top segment with jokes at MTV's expense. Meanwhile, holla at Thicke (who has also been doing promo recently anyway and wouldn't be surprised if he wasn't already filming something this week) and bam, ya got a show.

Yes, it wasn't what they expected and yeah it was slightly more compressed than they are used to but hey.. they do write a bunch of the show day to day, so you know...

Nobody is hating on Colbert in here. If anything he was the best man in this whole ordeal.

But, yeah fuck MTV and fuck Daft Punk.

Colbert has about a million viewers each night. The VMAs on a bad year have 6 million and on a good 12 million.

Umm... pick one.

Colbert

Try again. I'll give you one more shot.

More 15 second ads.

The xtra millions might just help this lil French band become popular

They've spent the past six months trying to have a big cultural crossover moment and they're taking the chance of being the widely reported news story from the VMAs, which is a show covered much more widely than a random episode of Colbert. You're having a tantrum because they wont fill your niche interest anymore. Like, let it go. They wanted to do both but ~ life ~.

yeah I don't get why people would be seriously upset by this

total nontroversy

this was our cultural vietnam. coco o'brien vs lenin was our korea.

lenin! haw

: /

wtf are you talking about Popture

I mean thanks for dropping that marketing knowledge, we were all in a fog here, blinded by our rage at DP.

last time they "filled my niche interest" was 1995

you're a pretty cool guy!

you're pretty insecure

"i get the sense someone on the internet is trying to show cool cred, I must step in here"

hahaha

what else filled yr niche in 95

i hear alice in chains are gonna do an unplugged

o wait mtv. trigger warning. sorry dude.

bout to go on another tantrum 3...2...1...

ILM saves me so many psych bills, free analysis here thx bros

you seen braveheart yet?

we've got an Elton John poll coming up; could use more Alice-in-Chains-in-'94 passion.

I feel like we are wasting this energy when we could be angry and confused about some other, slightly less dumb, thing.