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[–] [email protected] 105 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I once worked a 12 hour shift at a MarketPro computer show booth where, I shit you not, the booth next to us was selling computer speakers and the guy running it let his child play Around The World on repeat all day.

No other songs

No break

No reprieve

Just almost 12 straight hours of Around The World.

I loved that song, but to this day I can't tolerate hearing it without triggering something akin to PTSD

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

No argument here. As annoying I found it, kid was still an absolute legend

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Oh my friend, if you think that version has not been sent to me many many times since this story happened, you are sorely mistaken.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 100 points 1 year ago

144 times on the album version, 80 on the radio edit.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago

Me in 2024 when a robotic voice says "Around the world" any even number of times

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah but that shit rocked yo

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Shit STILL rocks. When you're at the peak of your roll and the DJ whose been fairly on point all night throws it back with some of the best mergers of Electronica and Disco to land on vinyl?? Oh! Magic. Do you think they'll play Stardust???

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Music sounds better with you

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oooh baby, it feels right.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

That shit still slaps when it comes on at the club

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Brilliant song indeed, but where’s the praise for Michel Gondry’s iconic videoclip?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Good song, good video! Good live version too

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Around the world around the whiirrlled.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Visualize whirled peas

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Anyone who hasn't heard the live version of this from Alive 2007, go bless your ears and heart with it right now. Absolutely one of the greatest live albums ever made.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wasnt even robotic, just a synth on top of human voice.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They used a talkbox, so technically it's the voice modulating the synth carrier.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well technically, it's not a voice modulating the synth but rather the shape of your mouth. It's not your voice if you aren't producing your own sound, I'd argue.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure, it's not a voice, just the shape of a voice, so to speak.

Anyway my point was that its not a synth on top of a voice, which would indicate an addition of sounds. It works more like a subtractive filter, which again actually works by multiplication. It's physical though, so no math is actually done to carry it out and there's no resolution on the effect, since it was done on analogue equipment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I know, I just wanted to "technically" your "technically" to be silly :P

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Thanks, now I have it stuck in my head (though it's not a bad track, so I'll take it lol)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

It also led to the most brutally sarcastic lyrics page on all of Genius

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This seems to be one of the things i am too young to understand. So can any one of you boomers explain ?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Video with spongebob singing daft punk around the world: https://youtu.be/5MnJkRo9tHU

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's sad. Daft Punk slaps. But to each their own.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like some of it not this one though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

All good man, you are allowed to like what you like, no judgement here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'll whisper the insidious phrase: Don't yuck my yum

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks i hate it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As someone into lyrics and complex songs, that song bored me to tears. The repetitiveness is a right turn off for me. Even a monkey can be learned to copy and paste, but the real musical talent is in transitioning into new melodies.

It is the same as with the "Push me, and then just touch me" song.

I can't listen to either of them without getting irritated to how little effort was put in them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The amount of "I don't listen to 'pop genre' music" energy coming from this comment is so unreal that I have to assume this is deliberate troling.