Nonsensical thoughts start cropping up in the hipsterвЂ™s head, like, вЂњIf it was supposed to be bad, then shouldnвЂ™t I think itвЂ™s good?вЂќ These thoughts are all dead ends, and all the hipster can do is form some sort of opinion on his/her own.Д«ut, as the twitter sphere makes abundantly clear, a lot of people seem to legitimately experience brain glitches when asked to think freely for themselves. The hipster is now in a double bind, because the whole idea of hating the album was based on the fact that it was supposed to be really good. Think of Daft PunkвЂ™s strategy like a game of chess, but where the opponent is an obstinate hipster who wants to hate your album:Дaft Punk moves first by wantingВ the hipster to hate it. This wasnвЂ™t your run-of-the-mill вЂњdownplay the thing everyoneвЂ™s excited about so that theyвЂ™ll be more inclined to like it when they hear itвЂќ type deal. The answer, obviously, is Jedi mind tricks. So what was Daft Punk reallyВ doing when they said, in an interview with a widely circulated music magazine, that their own album was going to suck? Of all the thoughts you might have had after watching this clip, three of them were interesting:ДЎ) Robots from the future apparently love vinyl? (They definitely wouldnвЂ™t in real life.)Дў) Daft Punk are some savvy Frenchmen coming out with an ad like this.ДЈ) Daft Punk definitely does NOT think this album sucks. Like, for instance, attach the word вЂњliterallyвЂќ to statements that are, without question, figurative:Д®ither way, one thing already seemed certain yesterday, before anyone even pressed play on their freshly stolen LP:ДЄnd then, just prior to the leak heard round the world, the duo went ahead and released this teaser, highlighting both their futuristic mystique and the opening few seconds of RAM: Because saying your own album is вЂњsupposed to suckвЂќ is fucking absurd.ДЄnd anyway, when they said that it kinda pissed you off because you were pretty sure that this album could finally be the occasion youвЂ™ve been waiting for to do off-the-wall things. Now if you couldВ politelyВ go take that statement and shove it up your butt hole, I would like to listen to it and judge for myself what itвЂ™s вЂњsupposedвЂќ to do.вЂќДЄnd if you did that then you would have been handling yourself appropriately. Or, you might very well have felt like saying, вЂњAlright, Daft Punk. Is it, like вЂ¦ Are we all supposed to suck? I think I get it.вЂќ YOU: вЂњDid you know that the whole point of albums is that they are notВ supposed to suck? YOU: вЂњWait just a minute: ItвЂ™s supposedВ to suck? Like, you made it so thatВ it would suck?вЂќ Especially if they read anything like this one:Д®arlier this month, you were either left scratching your head or shaking it, saying, вЂњFrench peopleвЂ¦вЂќ when/if you saw that Daft Punk had told Spin MagazineВ that Random Access MemoriesВ вЂњis supposed to really suck.вЂќ When you pressed the вЂњdownloadвЂќ button yesterday, you might have been a little bit weary about something bad happening:Д«ut the file was real! And this meant that the time had come for everyone to form opinions about it.Д«UT HOW?! How are we supposed to form opinions when no oneвЂ™s told us what to think yet? What would these opinions even mean? If you have an icy aversion to hype, youвЂ™ve been pissed off about how inevitably disappointing Random Access MemoriesВ was going to be for years now: In search of an answer, as random and unintelligible as it may be, I turned to Twitter, and watched a story unfold. So, whatвЂ™s going on? Why the hysteria? Why are twenty year-olds вЂ“ who were eight when Daft Punk last released a good studio album вЂ“ this excited? DonвЂ™t get me wrong, Discovery is a stone-cold classic, but I donвЂ™t see the same excitement about the вЂњGirl Meets WorldвЂќ reboot. Rarely, if ever, have people appeared so emboldened to post links in online fora that facilitate the illegal transfer of copyrighted material, as if the law instructed them to do so, as if it was their civic duty to do so. And while вЂњevent leaksвЂќ have become the sort of thing that happens at least three or four times a year вЂ“ has Commissioner Goodell announced that Kanye is officially on the clock? вЂ“ rarely does one dominate the way that RAM has for the past 24 hours.

The unauthorized, early release of Random Access Memories has lured everyone, young and old, out of their respective corners of the Internet and into the streets of social media, like St.

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