Cole Cuchna

Then a chop from another Dan Fogelberg and Tim Weisberg song, Lahana Luna.

Finally, another chop used in the previous loop, the R from You Are.

Now let's put them together to create the second half of the loop.

And now the full B section loop, first on its own, then with drums.

Now with every other repetition, there is an additional sample added to the tail end of the loop, and it's another vocal chop that gets repurposed to mean something else.

The vocal comes from another Alan Parsons project song, which is the same source as most of the other vocal chops in the track, so it seems clear they are using Alan Parsons as the quote-unquote lead singer.

This one's pulled from 1982's Old and Wise.

The original lyric is, there are shadows surrounding me.

The chop is a fragment of the word shadows.

This is combined with a chop from another Doobie Brothers song, 1973's South City Midnight Lady.

And now together with the vocal chop.

So admittedly, this one isn't as obvious as you are face to face now with me, but the most common interpretation of this vocal is the word dancing, making the full B section lyrics you are dancing.

See if you can hear it.

To me, this is such a fascinating exercise, one that reveals just how malleable our perception really is.

So much of what we experience isn't fixed or objective, but rather influenced by context, expectation, and our own personal histories.

I'm not sure I would have heard dancing in that sample on my own,

But once I read about that interpretation, I couldn't unhear it, especially given the context of a dance track and knowing Daft Punk's long history of writing about music and dancing.

It's a phenomenon Todd Edwards himself has compared to pareidolia, which is the tendency for humans to perceive patterns or meaning where none objectively exist.

like seeing faces in clouds or constellations in the stars.

Our brains are constantly trying to make sense of the world, to organize randomness into something recognizable and meaningful.