15 Twitter users wonder where the drop is on Daft Punk's 'Random Access Memories'
by Aaron Zorgel
May 14, 2013
The monstrous popularity of contemporary EDM DJs like Skrillex, Avicii, and Afrojack have given rise to a new generation of electronic music appreciators. These young music fans can’t remember a time when their favourite genre wasn’t saturated with bass drops, wobbly-wubs, and trap hi-hats, so it makes sense that they have trouble appreciating one of EDM’s most influential and revolutionary groups. Plus, most of these bro-step and complextro fans were probably toddlers when the last Daft Punk record came out.
Right in the thick of electronic dance music’s rise to mainstream relevance, Daft Punk saw fit to release Random Access Memories. It’s an ambitious 75-minute album, with live instruments, yacht rock-smooth hooks, and nary a bass drop. For any seasoned Daft Punk listener, the absence of drops shouldn’t have been a surprise, but for these neo-dance fans, it’s shocking and confusing. When Skrillex released his future garage EP a few months back, Twitter and YouTube wondered where the drop was. Random Access Memories seems to have had the same effect.
It’s hard to navigate the general sincerity of these tweets, but some of them seem to be an authentic plea for a drop. Here are fifteen Twitter users who wonder where the drop is on Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories:
