#Im blue daft punk movie#

There were lots of places where we were not allowed to actually sing and because there were lots of artists jumping in, it was really hard to sound check everybody. We were eating in cars and sleeping like 2-3 hours a night. I thought, 'We actually did it.' It was like something we lived, but with some delay. When I did get the feeling that we had done Top of the Pops was when I got the prize at home and when we finally stopped touring. Normally if you have the time to understand you would get the sensation that this is actually happening. At the time we were touring and going around so fast we didn't have time to realize, 'Oh my god, we're doing Top of the Pops.' We were playing the Dodger Stadium in the US and I'm standing right next to Jon Bon Jovi, and I'm like this is not happening. I really didn't understand what we had done until after we did it. One of my early musical memories is watching you guys on Top of the Pops, where you've performed twice. There were Martians and all that kind of stuff, you had to be surprised and do an expression. It was something we'd never done before and we had no reference so we had to imagine that something that was there that wasn't.

#Im blue daft punk movie#

Moving around and acting like we were in a movie was kinda like a new level for us. That was really funny because we didn't have any green screen experience at the time. We were lucky enough to have this thing pushed a lot on kids who were looking at this as a sort of cartoon thing and that helped turn it onto families and getting 'Blue' to a bigger audience. So we were lucky enough to have some input into what we wanted and it worked out perfectly, we had people working there who now work for Dreamworks and on stuff like that. Well that came from our great love of video games and we had a video department that was working a lot on 3d at the time. Though they may look old now, the computer graphics for the 'Blue' video were pretty high-tech at the time. The biggest surprise for me was actually going with all my friends to the movies and being like, 'Ok, guys I know the song is in the movie, but I don't know where' and it was the only thing playing during the Marvel and Paramount intro and I was like 'Oh my god, we are in the intro to this movie.' That was a really big thrill.

That was an interesting process to go through, because I was so used to singing 'Blue' in English. When I was called, they were saying, 'Listen, we might have ‘Blue’ in Iron Man, we have to provide a Mandarin version of the song.' I was like, “What!? How am I supposed to be singing in Mandarin?' The guy says, “Well we have a teacher and we can work this thing out.' So I was in the studio like two days after with the teacher working out the words for the intro and I actually did sing the entire intro one afternoon in Mandarin and I've heard that it sounds pretty good. Well, we were asked to help somehow get this thing rolling. 'Blue' was recently featured in Iron Man 3. It's a way of saying with my filter I have a blue house, a blue window etc. They all reflect that color, it's incredible that everyone has that. So the things they buy, the houses they buy, the people they want to see, the places they live, the cars they have. I think that everyone has their own color you know? They filter their entire lives with that colour. It speaks of something I believe in a lot. The last two digits of the phone number were six and five so the graphic artist thought we put that in our name afterwards so it was a really curious way to get to that. Then what happened was we had the label copy on our producer’s desk and he was writing a phone number that went over the paper he was using and ended up on the label copy. We made a database on Excel that we were fetching from time to time and when 'Blue' came out we fetched Eiffel from the list and that was it. We were producing a lot back in those days and we noticed that we were wasting a lot of time trying to find names for the new projects so what we did was we took a week or so to create as many new possible names as we could. How did you come up with the name Eiffel 65? They have definitely put an important page in the book for electronic music. Daft Punk, I think they’re really really great. That would have been really nice because that’s a great honor for us.

I read a few posts about it on my Twitter or Facebook, but I never saw the actual interview. Did you see the interview with Daft Punk talking about how they loved “Blue”?