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Harder,
Better,
Faster,
Stronger" is track number four from the
Daft Punk album
Discovery. It is a bouncing club track featuring vocals which feel as if they were
recorded in one sequence,
edited back together and then run through a
vocoder. Despite having a dance club feel, this is not a dance song. Like the
first track from Discovery, this song transcends simple dance music and becomes something strange and different. After all, how can it be dance music if you can't dance to it?
The master stroke of HBFS is the vocal break two minutes into the song. This break is occupied solely by the amazing vocoder track and the bouncing bass line, which is in and of itself an amazing accomplishment. Although the vocoder has often been used a simple studio trick used to add flare to a song (see
Cher's
Believe), Daft Punk expertly use this throw-away piece of technology and create an effect which should be insanely cliched, but somehow sounds completely original. This track exemplifies Daft Punk's style, taking the traditional club standards and molding them into catchy and relatable pop songs which work on a multitude of levels.
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Daft Punk
Work It Make It
Do it Makes Us
Harder Better
Faster Stronger
More Than Hour
Hour Never
Ever After
Work is Over
Work It Harder Make It Better
Do it Faster Makes Us Stronger
More Than Ever Hour After
Hour Work Is Never Over