It's not exactly news that Daft Punk's Random Access Memories has been divisive, with some celebrating it as an instant classic from one of the world's greatest groups, and others denouncing it as a over-rated product of hype generated by the masked charlatans. (Not many people thought it was, you know, just okay.)
You can now count EDM superstar Tiësto as one of the haters, after he ripped into the album (and the folks who loved it) in an interview with The Huffington Post.
"It got so much attention because it's so different and it's an attitude album," he said. "It's cool to like Daft Punk. Even if you're not into the song, as soon as you hear ['Get Lucky'], you see all the cool people go, 'Oh yeah, this is cool, that's my song', and they don't really even enjoy it.
"I'm destroying them now. Sorry, Daft Punk."
After adding the qualifier that he enjoyed the group's early work (and Thomas Bangalter's solo releases), Tiësto went in hard.
"The Tron soundtrack wasn't that great and this is not great, either. But because it's Daft Punk and they're supposed to be cool and they had the amazing pyramid at Coachella a couple of years ago and the helmets — they're fucking cool. But the music doesn't deliver on the hype so much."
Perhaps thinking he hadn't made his feelings clear, Tiësto then related a story of the time he asked some cool girls at a party about 'Get Lucky'.
"I said, 'Lemme ask you a question; do you really like this song?' And they went quiet and were like, 'Uh... it's all right, it's all right'. That's what I mean. Because it's Daft Punk and we want to believe the hype; we are cool people so we have to think this is cool."
Tiësto didn't say what he thought of the duo's 10 minute 'Get Lucky' remix, but it's probably safe to assume he fucking hated it.
(Via The Huffington Post)
