Around the World is a song by the band Daft Punk. It appeared on the duo's debut album, Homework (1997) and was released as a single the following year. It became a major club hit throughout the world. The key hook is a steady bassline and a talk box-processed voice singing "Around the world" over and over again. It has been suggested that this phrase has been constructed to be an aural palindrome: identifiable as "around the world" when played backwards as well although this conclusion is debatable.

The music video (directed by Michel Gondry) features robots walking around in a circle on a platform (which represents a vinyl record), breakdancers walking up and down stairs, disco girls swimming down another set of stairs, skeletons dancing in the center of the "record," and mummies dancing in time with the cymbals and hand claps in the song. This is a visual representation of the song; each element in the video represents a different instrument: the robots represent the talk box "robot voice", the breakdancers move in time to the ascending-descending bassline, the disco girls represent the high-pitched synthesizer, the skeletons move to the guitars, and the mummies represent the drum machine. Or like the title says, it represents things around the world: inside the earth, dead things (mummies and skeletons); the ladies in swimsuit, the oceans; the giant break-dancers, the surface of the earth; the robots/astronauts, the sky.

Trivia

• The talk boxed "around the world" plays 144 times during this song.

Track listing

1. Around the World (Radio Edit) (3:59)
2. Around the World (LP Version) (7:07)
3. Teachers (Extended Mix) (5:51)
4. Around the World (Motorbass Vice Mix) (6:39)

External links

1997 singles | Daft Punk songs | Michel Gondry music videos