DaftPunkGate ‘08: Was That Really Daft Punk With Kanye at the Grammys?
Though there’s no evidence to suggest otherwise, and certainly their press reps are trumpting it as a bonified appearance, but can we ever know for certain that was really Thomas & Guy-Manuel performing “Stronger” with Kanye last night at Staples Center?
Or have Daft Punk become like the Blue Man Group with an army of anonymous helmetted avatars they send in their stead for brief international appearances?
Or does any of this even matter?
Let the conspiracy theories begin (and end) here.
BONUS GRAMMYS COVERAGE
Foos with strings, doing “The Pretender” in the damn Staples parking lot, John Paul Jones conducting, Ann Marie Calhoun on violin. (What, was Petra Haden unavailable to play the part she layed down on the actual LP recording?) Impressive production for sure, but I still don’t like this song.
Ryan favorite Feist does “1234″, or, as it’s probably known to 95% of those actually watching the Grammys on CBS on a Sunday night, “That Song from the iPod Commercial.”


I’m going with fake robots. This whole thing reminds me of nothing so much as the Man or Astroman genome project though.
I thought the same thing!
Also, I agree with you on the Foo Fighters song. Impressive performances, but I still don’t remotely like the song. I’d like to see a supermarket survey of Foo Fighters “Pretender” against a much better song IMHO “Pretender” by Liam and Me. That track is great. The boys in Wired All Wrong produced a version that is impeccable.
I’d like to see a Pretender/Pretender mashup! But what would you call it? The Great Pretender?