Around the World the Robots Are Dancing!

 "Around the World," Daft Punk (1997): Yes, a lot of Daft Punk is fairly obviously a techno disco homage. If you already don't like disco or dance music this is an easy copout way to dismiss them. They can't sing. Their instruments are laptop computers. But if you like disco or dance music and Giorgio Moroder and Italo Disco and Romanthony then Daft Punk are '90s chart breakthrough for disco and goofy EDM genius, even if they get more broad and cliche as they go. Isn't that the way it often goes? And am I crazy or am I hearing some more "Good Times"? "Around the World" is the globalization of disco, although Madonna already did that. How about Daft Punk put the disco in electronica? Body music. Turn out the lights, turn on the disco ball. We're up all night to get lucky, even knowing already we won't, because we already are to feel this good. Thank the robots. The sex machines. Spin like a top, you can dance anyway you like. And "Get Lucky" (2013), much later, broader, more cliche, was a great dance song as well. Another bit of disco music keeping on keeping on.