On October 24th, 2023, during an interview with Léa Salamé on France Inter, Thomas Joly, who will be the director of the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics, revealed that he had managed to recruit Daft Punk to perform. On July 26th, 2024, on the Seine in Paris, the French duo Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo could make a highly anticipated comeback, 3 years after announcing their separation.
“Daft Punk blurred the lines between reality and fiction”
Remember, in February 2021, the world’s most famous robot duo bid farewell after a 28-year career, by sharing a clip from their film “Electroma”, simply titled “Epilogue”. It wasn’t until April 2023 that fans finally learned more about this announcement that traumatized them.
“Daft Punk was a project that blurred the lines between reality and fiction with these robot characters,” he told the BBC. “That was a very important point for me and Guy-Manuel, not to spoil the narrative as it unfolded. I love technology as a tool, but I’m somewhat terrified by the nature of the relationship between machines and us.”
“The rise of artificial intelligence”
“My concerns about the rise of artificial intelligence go beyond its use in music creation,” he continues. “In Daft Punk, we were trying to use these machines to express something extremely moving that a machine can’t feel, but a human can. We were always on the side of humanity and not on the side of technology… Although I love this character, the last thing I want to be in the world we live in, in 2023, is a robot.” But then what will be the setlist for July 2024? Mystery…
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