Cole Cuchna

1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4...

Now I'm going to count along again, this time during the vocals, work it, make it, do it, makes us.

As you listen, notice how they're placed directly on beats 1 and 3.

Now let's do the same thing with the next set of phrases, harder, better, faster, stronger.

And notice these are placed not on the 1 and 3, but on beats 2 and 4.

So we have one melodically ascending set of phrases placed on beats 1 and 3, and the other descending set on beats 2 and 4.

This same pattern repeats on the next section.

More than hour, hour never falls on 1 and 3, while the response, ever after, work is over, falls on 2 and 4.

All of these phrases are pretty spaced out.

There are large gaps between the phrases filled by instrumental music,

And it takes 8 measures to perform work it, make it, do it, makes us, harder, better, faster, stronger, and 8 measures to perform more than hour, hour never, ever after, work is over.

That's a total of 16 measures to perform such a small amount of text.

In terms of productivity, our robots aren't being very efficient.

They are working slowly, their speech is monotone and primitive, and their words disrupt the flow of the instrumental.

But no need to fear because their words reflect their programming.

They will keep working tirelessly until they become stronger, better, faster, and more efficient.

And as the song continues, that's exactly what happens.

Some of you are probably realizing what's happening here and it's really, really cool.

Daft Punk designed the vocal parts as modular units.

They work on their own independently, like we heard at the start when the opening phrases were spaced out, placed on the 1s and 3s and then on the 2s and 4s.