Why do you like Daft Punk so much?
First and foremost, I am a creature of habit. I don't change much, I trust what was there in the late 1990s and early 2000s and that for me was Daft Punk.
I grew up with listening to Thomas' records, seeing the blue skinned people in Interstella 5555 hundreds of times, looking at the exo-skeleton of Chucky in Technologic. It's my thing. Add onto the fact that I was taught in French during my first years, French nursery rhymes. Naturally I associate peak musical creation with the French. I love hearing the accent behind the vocals in Human After All, it feels right and normal to me.
Further more, onto more emotional aspects, I feel that even though Daft Punk were masked as Robots or anything other than properly figured human beings, they managed to create the most raw music which included the tenderest parts of humanity from an almost external point of view.
Listen to Something about Us, Instant Crush, Harder Better Faster Stronger, Television Rules The Nation, Veridis Quo or Fragments of time and tell me that those tracks don't appeal to a part of quintessential human life or reference to some of the most mundane factors and concerns we have today. It's amazing to me, or maybe I'm just out of my mind.
I can listen to Daft Punk everyday and not get bored because their music holds a universal truth to me and I'm also a junky for hard techno rave music, so it's a win win.
A little add on that might further help you in understanding my overwhelming bias for anything that came out of the palms of Thomas Bangalter is listening to tapes of him speaking from the past. Sure they're in deep french but there are very good subtitles and translations of both articles and interviews alike if you look hard enough. I agree with him on many topics and I find him so intelligent and wise beyond his years when it comes to music and its importance, impact and culture. His answers also stretch to philosophy, art and sound technology which is also quite interesting to listen to learn about!
You can probably tell I'm really passionate about this, I'll stop here :)