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The girls are syncronized swimmers, not "disco girls." They have bathing suits and swimming caps on. Reference here: http://www.director-file.com/gondry/daft.html

I'm pretty sure the "tall athletes" are supposed to be b-boys? Gelwood 07:39, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've clarified the references to clear up these issues. Just64helpin 17:18, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You are right. I have the book in front of me. "Bass: athletes with small heads and big legs, because they are hysical(sic), move constantly and have no time to think. Guitar: skeletons because it sounds itchy. Synthesizer: Disco girls, because it sounds feminine. Vocoder: Robots: it's obvious why. Drum machine: Mummies. Please don't ask why, but it's a very removed meaning association between M. Jackson (my hero) and what he did to himself." Gelwood 23:12, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Description of the song in terms of functional harmony

The current description in the article reads a bit awkwardly to me... "playing in two different keys at the same time" is a rather odd way to describe it:

The key is surely E minor, with the 4 bar repeated chord chord progression behind the song a fairly straightforward |: Am | C | Em | Em :| ... and the synth and vocoder phrases pick out the 9th (F#) quite determindley - it's just that the "funky" bass line frequently passes through F natural in that fairly common bluesly funk way, which is a flattened 9th - but that's just an added passing note, expanding the vocabulary of E minor somewhat - but this thing is COMMON, not bizarre.

Any views?--feline1 22:18, 10 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

i heard the music somewhere

i cant remember on what but when i heard it, i knew that was it. does anyone know where it was? 67.141.138.67 22:57, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It was the music video by Michel Gondry. -- stillnotelf has a talk page 22:59, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

no it was on either a tv show, a movie, or a game, it was jst the beggining doo-doo-doo-doo sound no vocals 67.141.138.67 03:56, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

MTV and VH1 love to use sound clips from Daft Punk for their shows. Douglasr007 04:42, 16 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Lyrics

Lyrics are needed.

No they're not. You know exactly why. :) Douglasr007 08:32, 3 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why? Just because it's...

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Oh, you missed one line! That was the hook :P —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.197.54.33 (talk) 20:54, 17 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Mr. Roboto

I added a bit about the video being somewhat inspired by the Styx song, Mr. Roboto. It was reverted by Just64helpin because of Original research, which upon reflection, I realize it is. So, I'm not going to put the tidbit back in. I would like to note however, the similarities are apparent when watching both videos, but a quick google search yields very few people also noticing this (those that do are blogs). If anyone else can find any decent source that makes this connection, we could put it back in or at least note that some people see similarities.

Both videos:

"Around the World" music video on YouTube

"Mr. Roboto" music video on YouTube

--Snaxorb 16:11, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 07:35, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Source of Around the World sample

Jerry Goldsmith - The Rec Room was a song that Around the World sampled from, I think it would be worth noting this, as well as what filters/effects they put on it to make it sound like it did (which i would like to know as well).Goatonastik (talk) 12:15, 15 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's hard to say if Daft Punk used that song as a sample. Discovered and Palm Out Sounds aren't reliable as Discovered had no involvement with Daft Punk or Virgin Records and Thomas Bangalter has stated that half of the samples on POS are incorrect. Douglasr007 (talk) 03:35, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Talk Box, not vocoded

Hi there, I am pretty sure that this song's lyrics were recorded in a talk box, not a vocoder from what I've heard. Forgive me if I am wrong, but I just thought I should add this in case anyone else noticed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.111.215.191 (talk) 02:21, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The source cited in that sentence says it is a vocoder. Please cite a source if you wish to make such changes. Just64helpin (talk) 15:33, 6 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Gotta agree that it sounds a lot more like a talkbox than a vocoder. 83.108.110.119 (talk) 15:04, 8 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm pretty sure it's talkbox regardless of the actual source from Michel Gondry's DVD. This video (sorry for the lower quality but there used to be a better video of this) is Bangalter in the studio with DJ Mehdi producing the beat for 113's "Fout La Merde" with a talkbox I think. Bangalter decided to have fun and started to sing the famous chant that we all know from Around the World. I know this is all original research but I wish there was a legit source about this . You know looking at the video again, I have no idea if that's a vocoder or talkbox. ♫ Douglasr007 (talk) 19:53, 25 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It's obviously a talk box, it sounds like one, and it doesn't sound like a vocoder. The source is wrong :) --feline1 (talk) 10:27, 8 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like we have a quote from Daft Punk saying it's a talk box. [1] Cheers. jhsounds (talk) 23:25, 10 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Title wrighter?

I'm a fan, I love it and remember watching the video all the time with my friends back in the days. Still I wonder: Around the World is the title right? Saying it in loop qualify as song wrighting? Did they had to be two to do so much? It's a bit ironical, I'll admit, ain't, since I almost laught out lough when I saw it, I had to ask if it's an error.