O.K. I heard this like 4 times in a row... and this is an interpretation based on what I've been going through this Summer.
I actually cried... a 29 year old brotha; stopped the stream; cried it out... and for whatever reason... my pain was relieved... This song is therapy... It helped me get to my typical apathetic self, but not afraid to feel... Truly powerful!
So I had a crush on my best friend's little sister. An awful idea to say the least, but when you see someone live so beautifully and freely you want to replicate it. She is so human she is perfect; and yet one who is human has the luxury of at least feeling emotion and living vicariously, or going through the motions of love and heartache. People unlike robots fear being drawn out through experiences in an attempt to determine or feel what love is, I tend to come across as robotic. Apathetic, selfless cold and composed.
That is the true irony and greatness of this song. A robot unable to get an answer to the questions pertaining his engineered emotions. He thinks the repair is as simple and asks for the key to his chambers, but being in a place foreign to his "nature" he is unable to communicate it effectively, let alone fine a listening participant. Even more terrifying, his plea for this quick fix, in the form of attention and affection is nothing but a reverberative cry which will seldom be heard. Even upon the regular Daft Punk listener who perceives the album solely being about dance as supposed to human soul.
I am not insulting these individuals! It comes across on the first listen as sad mopy and whiny. A very unflattering emotion to the recipient of the robot's plea. But this was a truly orchestrated decision...
Proof the Robot feels:
There are so many things
that I don't understand
(Robot with initiative to attain greater knowledge create something bigger)
There's a world within me
that I cannot explain
(As though being on Earth isn't scary enough the World of feelings Robot possess for the listener is astounding, and Robot doesn't know how to cope!)
Many rooms to explore
but the doors look the same
(Ah Love, When you feel down you feel unmotivated, But when you love and those think you're incapable of doing so, it makes you love sick... Robot's should be prone to such a human ailment! Fear and inability to know how to fix himself!)
I am lost I can't even remember my name
(Being unable to establish whether he is capable of emotion or whether this neglect is the meaning of his existence the Robot can't get so far as determining an identity for himself, another unflattering quality for a person, but expected for a robot!)
I've been for sometime
Looking for someone
I need to know now
Please tell me who I am
(The robot ends with the emotion I came into this song feeling... DENIAL. I still try to be friends, and am already vulnerable having told her I loved her. So... Maybe this verse is Daft Punk's way of saying, "The listener hears you and doesn't care to rescue you, and they will NEVER come around in this scenario!)
Loved that interpretation! I also hear your story and feel for you - just got out of a 4½ year long relationship myself :) This song is incredibly human considering the fact that it's being sung by a robot.
Loved that interpretation! I also hear your story and feel for you - just got out of a 4½ year long relationship myself :) This song is incredibly human considering the fact that it's being sung by a robot.
O.K. I heard this like 4 times in a row... and this is an interpretation based on what I've been going through this Summer.
I actually cried... a 29 year old brotha; stopped the stream; cried it out... and for whatever reason... my pain was relieved... This song is therapy... It helped me get to my typical apathetic self, but not afraid to feel... Truly powerful!
So I had a crush on my best friend's little sister. An awful idea to say the least, but when you see someone live so beautifully and freely you want to replicate it. She is so human she is perfect; and yet one who is human has the luxury of at least feeling emotion and living vicariously, or going through the motions of love and heartache. People unlike robots fear being drawn out through experiences in an attempt to determine or feel what love is, I tend to come across as robotic. Apathetic, selfless cold and composed.
That is the true irony and greatness of this song. A robot unable to get an answer to the questions pertaining his engineered emotions. He thinks the repair is as simple and asks for the key to his chambers, but being in a place foreign to his "nature" he is unable to communicate it effectively, let alone fine a listening participant. Even more terrifying, his plea for this quick fix, in the form of attention and affection is nothing but a reverberative cry which will seldom be heard. Even upon the regular Daft Punk listener who perceives the album solely being about dance as supposed to human soul.
I am not insulting these individuals! It comes across on the first listen as sad mopy and whiny. A very unflattering emotion to the recipient of the robot's plea. But this was a truly orchestrated decision...
Proof the Robot feels:
There are so many things that I don't understand (Robot with initiative to attain greater knowledge create something bigger)
There's a world within me that I cannot explain (As though being on Earth isn't scary enough the World of feelings Robot possess for the listener is astounding, and Robot doesn't know how to cope!)
Many rooms to explore but the doors look the same (Ah Love, When you feel down you feel unmotivated, But when you love and those think you're incapable of doing so, it makes you love sick... Robot's should be prone to such a human ailment! Fear and inability to know how to fix himself!)
I am lost I can't even remember my name (Being unable to establish whether he is capable of emotion or whether this neglect is the meaning of his existence the Robot can't get so far as determining an identity for himself, another unflattering quality for a person, but expected for a robot!)
I've been for sometime Looking for someone I need to know now Please tell me who I am (The robot ends with the emotion I came into this song feeling... DENIAL. I still try to be friends, and am already vulnerable having told her I loved her. So... Maybe this verse is Daft Punk's way of saying, "The listener hears you and doesn't care to rescue you, and they will NEVER come around in this scenario!)
Loved that interpretation! I also hear your story and feel for you - just got out of a 4½ year long relationship myself :) This song is incredibly human considering the fact that it's being sung by a robot.
Loved that interpretation! I also hear your story and feel for you - just got out of a 4½ year long relationship myself :) This song is incredibly human considering the fact that it's being sung by a robot.