Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

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.

The fuck does this have to do with ratings and my 'niche' interest? Don't you hate people that say they are coming to your party and you buy extra food and drinks and whatever and then, they don't show up because in the end they went somewhere else instead? It's a dick move and DP did it to Colbert. A simple note in advance would have been a class move.

otm

i would say pick yr battles ppl

like, if you were going to go through the history of pop music dick moves involving bands you like, cancelling on a talk show is gonna be pretttttttty low down there

offering to "just show up" and not do anything else is a pretty dick move too though

I will never forgive the time the GAP Band dropped Merv Griffin for the 1979 Soul Train Awards.

That still burns me up.

lol daft punk truthers still at it

j/k but on the topic, I was super pissed when INXS was scheduled to finally play my little city where bands of any import rarely came but cancelled shortly before the date so they could appear on SNL instead.

I'm sorry Daft Punk made Stephen Colbert have a kinda bad day at work, btw he is one of the most beloved celebrities in the free world and has an annual salary of $6 million

feel like having a strong opinion about this is almost certainly a waste of your emotional energy

http://i.imgur.com/BwkmTkc.jpg

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.

people, people

"You remember how they got to Gnarls Barkley in '06, right?"

Garrison NODS quickly, seeing the connection

Truth be told, I was just looking for a reason to bash Daft Punk because Random Access Memories sucks. And I like Stephen Colbert. This isn't really about them not showing up.

(Also, fuck MTV.)

There were crucial papers that said Viacom would be wholly responsible for when to book musical guests and where. This was unprecedented, basically ending the reign of the Colbert Report being able to book its own guests, splintering it and the Daily Show. The shock waves this sent through the corridors of Manhattan and Daft Punk in effect handing all power back to MTV. It was crushing.

Mostly I'm shocked that more people watch the VMA's than any random episode of the Colbert Report.

If DP really cared about exposure they should have a) made an album of dance music and b) toured.

I just watched the Stephen Colbert video and it is interesting to note that it never gets to the part in the song with the robot voices. I'm wondering if the initial plan was to just use that video, maybe with a live band backing the song instead of a recording, but have Stephen Colbert dance with Daft Punk during the vocoder break down.

Colbert adresses the 'set up theory' and the whole DP mess:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__MI3kMFVSE

Mostly I'm shocked that more people watch the VMA's than any random episode of the Colbert Report.

this really shocks you?!