Yes it's true, Kanye West has teamed with Daft Punk to create his song/music video "Stronger" West samples the song "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" from Daft Punk's sophomore album "Discovery". This new track will appear in his new album "Graduation, coming sometime time in September this year...
As for the video, Kanye goes for a "Japanimation" type style, in a futuristic world. UNLIKE another song/music video where a hip-hop artist has sampled Daft Punk (Busta Rhymes' "Touch it") Kanye West actually gives acknowledge to the French duo by having them in the video. (pretty cool move imo)
Check out the video. I've only watched it once, after catching a clip of the song on DC101 this morning. I immediately took the lyrics i heard and typed them in Google. (Google is your friend)
My take on it:
Video: Pretty cool: I'd definitely watch again, better than most the crap videos I see out now.
Song: Song is catchy at best, I really need to listen to it again (I had to blog this now, or would've been to busy to do it later) Let's just say the Daft Punk factor (them being them and their actual music) really helped out this project.
What more can I say? Daft Punk will now get more fans upon this song/video, and Kanye West wins by just having the expierence to team up with Daft Punk, haha. (biased am I?)
Two great talents coming from two different parts of the music spectrum is always a risk - a risk that should be taken more often for the benefit of the music world.
links: BuzzSugar article
PitchFork article
