I have no great love for Arcade Fire as human beings. Anybody who hasn’t figure out that win is an egotistical monster of alarming proportions, that, indeed, he gives the KoL Brothers a run for their money as the most despicable rock band member of the past five years, mustn’t really care about rock music at all and should be banned from reading another word of this post.
HOWEVER
By fooling the Coachella audience (and a couple of million rock blogs) into believing they were watching Daft Punk when, in fact, it was just two guys in space suits, they made a mockery of modern electronic pop stars. Win’s idea as a joke to intrudce two people on stage as Daft Punk and have them play “Get Lucky”
The truth is this: the hippest audience on earth had no idea what they were listening to. It could have been any one, any one on earth can be Daft Punk, anyone can be Avicii. Whatever the art of live performance is with EDM, it isn’t the art of music. Not only can anybody prerecord a set, the likes of Sebastian Ingrosso (of Swedish House Mafia) has been caught doing just that. Getting a million bucks and cheating.
What Arcade Fire did was prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. They showed how, indeed, Daft Punk could be and are and would be and might be anybody. It is the opposite of anybody can be a star, the new punk ethos appears to be nobody at all can be a star.
