#robot rock

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dammit i know exactly what they're referencing:

DJO performing Robot Rock + Roddy

Music: Robot Rock - Daft Punk

Absolutely memorable. You will remember that guitar riff for the rest of your life. Plus 112 bpm is very good for CPR, and the percussion and bass guitar stays on beat.

Unfortunately the main melody is intermittent and does not stay on beat, and not too intense. If, in memory, you can also remember the supporting instrumentation then it's actually really good. Just worried, because in testing it was difficult for me to keep chest compressions on track with the beat.

7/10

a memory: back in 2014, about a week before i went up to seattle to see soundgarden and nine inch nails, i played this song on loop. i was catching so much shit for my crush on ben shepherd at the time, feeling like i didn’t deserve to feel that way about him and feeling the word delusional in my bones. when i went up there, it was pouring rain, absolutely pouring (like a southwesterly monsoon thunderstorm), and then right before the show gates opened, the rain stopped and the clouds opened up and the sun shone down on me. a few weeks later, i started school again, made dean’s list, and had chris share my art on twitter again.

a year later, after i had moved back down south to tend to the old house (and it felt like everyone was on my case about working, even though my living circumstances made even something part-time out of my reach and i explained it several times: my words were still falling on deaf ears), i was feeling lost and directionless. this song comes up again, and i find myself playing it on loop again. the next day, i went and saw chris by himself, and i got to meet him.

so whenever this song comes up to me, it’s associated with “people are being extremely shitty towards you, and for no good reason, either, but don’t lose hope because something good is about to happen.”