Listening 2 Daft Punk: Human After All / Alive 2007
Switched on Pop
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Emotion
There's something very bleak about this robotic voice repeating these instructions over and over again. Yet there's a wrinkle because even though the voice sounds so robotic, it may be the most human daff punk track that we've heard yet. That creepy evil robotic doll-like voice is actually just the voice of Tomah pitched up and manipulated. I feel like if they've spent the entire album building up our anxieties about technology and these robots, they also pull back the curtain on them in the final track,. which is titled Emotion and has just one lyric. Hearing that is like an unveiling of sorts. It's like pulling the curtain back and seeing the wizard, controlling all those levers
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