{"id":17564,"date":"2021-04-06T18:15:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T02:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/?p=17564"},"modified":"2021-04-06T18:15:54","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T02:15:54","slug":"%e2%80%8cdaft-punks-era-has-come-to-an-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/%e2%80%8cdaft-punks-era-has-come-to-an-end\/","title":{"rendered":"\u200cDaft Punk\u2019s era has come to an end"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Exploring Daft Punk\u2019s unique goodbye YouTube video<\/em><\/p>\n

Natalie\u200c \u200cDean\u200c<\/strong> \u200c|\u200c \u200cEntertainment\u200c \u200cEditor\u200c \u200c \u200c<\/span><\/p>\n

The world of music received some surprising news at the end of February: legendary French duo Daft Punk has announced the band\u2019s break up. After performing together for 28 years, Daft Punk released a nearly eight minute long YouTube video titled \u201cEpilogue,\u201d which shows an interesting farewell between the two artists. As of the video\u2019s release on Feb. 22, it has racked up over 23 million views, and the message portrayed through the footage is that of an authentic, creative and explosive goodbye.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Thomas Bangalter and Guillaume Emmanuel \u201cGuy-Manuel\u201d de Homem-Christo are seen in their iconic, shiny robot helmets and are shown walking forward, surrounded by a deserted landscape. The two walk at different paces, with Bangalter stopping and watching Homem-Christo walk off into the distance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The two share a short stare, and Homem-Christo returns to Bangalter to stand face-to-face \u2014 in this case, it\u2019s chrome helmet to helmet. The rest of the video continues with Homem-Christo setting off a timer on Bangalter\u2019s back, only for Bangalter to walk onward and then explode. The ending of the video shows each of their hands coming together to form a brightly glowing triangle, with the years \u201c1993\u20132021\u201d below it. For the final few minutes, the viewer is left with the final image of a figure \u23e4 presumably Homem-Christo \u23e4 walking toward the sunset.<\/span><\/p>\n

Their cryptic goodbye video is exactly what should be expected from Daft Punk after all these years, as they gave their audience one final show and ended with their own flair. While the video doesn\u2019t offer a reason as to why the band is splitting up, it does provide a final farewell and nod to their musical legacy since their debut album, \u201cHomework,\u201d released in 1997.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Since the near three decades of performing and music making, Daft Punk leaves fans around the world with their beloved electro hits and singles, \u201cAround the World,\u201d \u201cDa Funk,\u201d \u201cHarder, Better, Faster, Stronger,\u201d \u201cOne More Time\u201d and \u201cGet Lucky.\u201d Thankfully, their existing music can still be streamed, but many were shocked and saddened to hear that they\u2019re done collaborating for now. Daft Punk\u2019s publicist has confirmed the group\u2019s retirement, but did not elaborate on if they are pursuing new projects under different names.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Contact the author at ndean17@wou.edu<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Exploring Daft Punk\u2019s unique goodbye YouTube video<\/p>\n

Natalie\u200c \u200cDean\u200c \u200c|\u200c \u200cEntertainment\u200c \u200cEditor\u200c \u200c \u200c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":17530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[858,859,855,161,54,856,857,279,280],"class_list":["post-17564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-bands","tag-breakup","tag-daft-punk","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-music-industry","tag-music-news","tag-natalie","tag-natalie-dean"],"modified_by":"The Western Howl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}