Dubious about "Get Lucky"

[azurelunatic]

I'm dubious about liking Daft Punk's new song "Get Lucky". "She" and the narrator seem to have different goals at first.

She's up all night to the sun; she's up all night for good fun. Okay. One specifies duration twice (all night, specifically until the sun rises), the other clarifies why: to have "good fun".

What is "good fun"? I'm not sure, but in the context of not being a cat, it probably does not mean clawing the shit out of someone for no particular reason. But there are many things that "good fun" could be.

Now the narrator. He wants to "get some", which is sex. Specifically, he wants to "get lucky". "Lucky" is not the sex you have in the context of a relationship where you have a strong reason to believe that sex is probably a feature tonight. Lucky is the sex that you are very fortunate to obtain. It might be you're looking for a partner; it might mean your existing partner may not have sex on the menu tonight.


So at the first presentation of the chorus, the narrator is in it for the sex, and she may not have even been thinking about that. A mismatch of expectations for an all night party is something to pay close attention to as a bystander, in case he decides to cause a problem.

Only in the second go-round do we learn that she and the Narrator likely have the same kind of fun in mind.

Comments

[kateshort]

We sometimes ask each other if the other "wants to get lucky" and we'll have been married 15 years next week. -shrug-

[azurelunatic]

There is that!

[silverflight8]

I listen to a youtube channel that takes the choruses of the top 50 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 each week to kind of get a sense of what's popular (really cool, since I can also see how long they stay, where they peak, etc), and this one surprised me a lot--it's very different from everything else that's on! That singer, in particular. I listened to the full song and wasn't as impressed--too much repetition of "we're up to get lucky", I think. Definitely a different sound though.

[fiddlingfrog.livejournal.com]

Oooh, that sounds neat. Got a link?

[silverflight8]

Definitely! http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFB1w45uBp2c-gDkOjWvRuQ (Billboardgoddess). She has stuff like what number the song's charting at, the peak, how long it's been on...(it was pretty cool, I admit, to watch Rolling in the Deep slowly climb up the numbers for "weeks on").