"High Life" is the eighth track from Daft Punk's second studio album, Discovery. Its length is 3:21.
The song was the subject of a mass debate on the Internet over what was the sample used in the song, as Daft Punk did not credit the sample used amongst other samples used on Discovery. It was eventually found that a snippet of "Break Down for Love" by Tavares was utilized.[1]
Music video[]
Daft Punk - High Life
Like all songs from the album Discovery, the music video for "High Life" is a scene from the film Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem, which features no dialogue, but rather songs from Discovery throughout the whole film.
Samples used[]
- "Break Down for Love" by Tavares[1]
Sampled in[]
- "My Groove" by Rain[Citation needed]
- "Red Heat" by SKisM
And more
Lyrics[]
While "High Life" doesn't have intentional lyrics like songs with known lyrics tend to have, it does still have lyrics that come from the vocal chops.
The vocal chops sample from 2 parts of Tavares' "Break Down For Love". The parts of the lyrics High Life samples from are around and during the words seen in the lyrics of Break Down For Love, bold means that you're looking at the part of the lyric fragment that's been sampled.
0:34 "Tryin' to survi-ive"
2:29 "Outside you're strong"
0:29 "We're just people bein' people"
With these two vocal samples, this mean the lyrics to High Life are:
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[Instrumental transition]
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[Instrumental Intermission with main riff muffled and gradually becoming clearer]
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[Music begins to fade out]
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