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"Get Lucky"
Song

"Get Lucky" is a song by French house music duo Daft Punk, cowritten by and featuring Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers. It is the lead single off of Daft Punk's fourth studio album Random Access Memories.[1] Pharrell said that the song was not about a sexual conquest, but the fortune in finding potential chemistry with someone.[2] Before its release as a single, "Get Lucky" was featured in television advertisements broadcast during Saturday Night Live, after which Rodgers and Pharrell announced their involvement in the track.[3][4]

Background

Daft Punk first met Nile Rodgers at a listening party in New York for the 2001 album Discovery, and became friends thereafter.[3] The duo acknowledged Chic's influence in the song "Around the World" and had great respect for Rodgers.[5] He noted however that a series of near misses and scheduling conflicts had delayed their chance of collaborating. The duo eventually invited Rodgers to the Random Access Memories sessions at Electric Lady Studios in New York City, which coincidentally was the studio where the first Chic single had been recorded.[6]

Pharrell Williams had first heard from Daft Punk about the project "at a Madonna party" they were attending, and offered his services for a collaboration. The duo and Pharrell later met up in Paris, where he showed some of his own material he had been working on. Pharrell explained that he had been inspired by Rodgers, not knowing that Daft Punk had coincidentally been recording with him. Upon hearing "Get Lucky", Pharrell remarked that the music evoked the sense of being on an exotic island during a "peachy color[ed]" sunrise. He elaborated that the title does not simply refer to a sexual act, but to the fortune of meeting with and immediately connecting to someone.[2]

"Get Lucky" was first publicly revealed via two 15-second television advertisements on Saturday Night Live. Rodgers announced his contribution to the song shortly afterward, and noted that various fan remixes of the clips have appeared online since the airing.[3] The third trailer officially announced Pharrell's involvement in the song and features Daft Punk, Rodgers, and Pharrell performing together.[4]

References

  1. ^ Weiner, Jonah (13 April 2013). "Exclusive: Daft Punk Reveal Secrets of New Album". Rolling Stone. RollingStone.com. Retrieved 13 April 2013. Without warning, a nearly two-minute video popped up on jumbotron screens flanking the festival's various stages, in which Pharrell Williams, Nile Rodgers and the Daft Punk robots rock out in heavily sequined getups to 'Get Lucky'
  2. ^ a b Cubarrubia, RJ (15 April 2013). "Pharrell: Daft Punk 'Not Bound by Time and Space'" (YouTube video). Rolling Stone. RollingStone.com. Retrieved 15 April 2013. [...] Up; is where they belong. We're lucky to hang out [with them] in the planet. They could just get back on the spaceship that brought them here and go, and leave us. But they're gracious, they're nice robots. They chose to stay. (6:26 min)
  3. ^ a b c Serwer, Jesse (23 March 2013). "Nile Rodgers: Daft Punk Collaboration 'Felt Unbelievably Natural'". Rolling Stone. RollingStone.com. Retrieved 30 March 2013. Disco legend discusses his new projects at Miami's Winter Music Conference
  4. ^ a b Billboard Staff (14 April 2013). "Daft Punk Tease New Album at Coachella, During 'Saturday Night Live', Reveal Guests". Billboard. Billboard.com. Retrieved 14 April 2013. Random Access Memories was recorded in Paris, L.A. and New York and is slated to include a second Pharrell-sung track called 'Lose Yourself to Dance', according to Rolling Stone.
  5. ^ Manouvere, Philippe (May 2013). "En couverture: Daft Punk". Rock & Folk (in French) (549): 74–81.
  6. ^ Blistein, Jon (11 April 2013). "Nile Rodgers: New Daft Punk Album 'Went Back to Go Forward'" (YouTube video). Rolling Stone. RollingStone.com. Retrieved 11 April 2013. [...] I feel like I'm working with contemporaries [...] with people who grew up with me and feel it the same way we felt the vibe when we were creating this stuff. It's like they went back to go forward (10:24 min).
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