Harder, better, faster, stronger!
Around the world, around the world
Around the world, around the world...
Around the world, around the world...
— "Around the World", Homework
- Their surprising appearance at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in 2006, playing for the first time in the now-iconic glowing pyramid, heralded by Close Encounters of the Third Kind chimes.
- Their surprise appearance at the 2008 Grammys during Kanye West's performance of "Stronger". The album version of the song uses samples of "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" from Discovery (Daft Punk Album); in the Grammy show, Daft Punk themselves appeared and performed that part of the song live. This was the first time ever Daft Punk had appeared live on television (they'd been on TV before, but always pre-recorded).
- Everything about that appearance, really.
As Kanye ends his section of the verse, the pyramid opens up to reveal Daft Punk behind it, working the sound system and remixing it live. They're even met with encouragement by Kanye (you can hear him going "Yeah, yeah, yeah!" in the background). And after that, the music is pure bliss.
- Everything about that appearance, really.
- After many years of award snubs, Daft Punk gets nominated for 5 Grammys for the 56th Grammys, including Album of the Year and Record of the Year, and winning ALL of them.
- Their second live televised performance ever was beside Stevie Wonder, blending "Get Lucky" with a number of other memorable songs. They essentially turned the Grammys into an enormous dance party, with literally everyone in the audience on their feet.
- That "everyone" including legends like Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and Yoko Ono!
- Appearing pretty much As Themselves in TRON: Legacy and turning into a One-Scene Wonder. According to the Disney executives, they not only showed up to the meeting in their robot suits, but spent the meeting (over pancakes) asking them all kinds of questions about the movie to see if it would be "done right".
- Getting Leiji Matsumoto out of retirement to not just animate some music videos, but an entire album as a silent film. The end result, Interstella 5555, is distilled awesome.
- According to Kanye West, while he feels that his song "Stronger" is a great song, it does not compare to the sampled "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger". Considering the well-known ego of the person who's saying that, that's saying a lot.
- A cappella group Pentatonix scored one of their biggest hits on YouTube with their awesome Daft Punk medley.
- On the 22nd of February 2022, the 1st anniversary of their separation, the previously-inactive social media accounts of the duo began posting enigmatic imagery from their first album and tour. This turned to be an announcement for a 25th anniversary edition of said album, which was backed by a surprise twitch stream of an LA performance from the Daftendirekt tour. This tour had not only never gotten an official video release, it was the last time the duo performed live helmet-less. To say fans were overjoyed would be an understatement.
