Music Sounds Better with You explained

Music Sounds Better with You
Cover:Stardust - Music Sounds Better with You.png
Alt:CD single
Type:single
Artist:Stardust
Released:[1]
Studio:Daft House (Paris, France)
Genre:French house
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Producer:Stardust

"Music Sounds Better with You" is the only record by the French house trio Stardust, released on 20 July 1998. Stardust comprised the Daft Punk member Thomas Bangalter, DJ Alan Braxe and the vocalist Benjamin Diamond.

Stardust formed for a performance at the Rex Club in Paris, and wrote "Music Sounds Better with You" using a guitar riff sampled from the 1981 Chaka Khan song "Fate". It was initially released on Bangalter's Roulé label, followed by a wider release on Virgin Records, with a music video directed by Michel Gondry.

"Music Sounds Better with You" debuted at number two on the UK singles chart in August 1998 and stayed there for two weeks, becoming one of the UK's bestselling singles that year. It also topped the US Billboard Dance Club Play chart for two weeks. It is certified double platinum in the UK, platinum in Australia, and gold in Belgium and France. By 2018, it had sold more than two million copies worldwide.

The song received acclaim and was named one of the greatest dance songs by several publications. Stardust performed once more, at a festival in France, before disbanding. Bangalter declined an offer of $3 million from Virgin to produce a Stardust album.

Background

By the late 1980s, house and techno had become popular in gay nightclubs in Chicago and Detroit. In France, the DJ Alan Braxe and the singer Benjamin Diamond met in boarding school and bonded over music as teenagers. When house music became popular in the French gay scene, they bought every house LP they could find, went clubbing and attended raves.[2]

By the early 1990s, Braxe had dropped out of university and completed a year of military conscription. With no job prospects, he decided to pursue music.[3] He met Thomas Bangalter, a member of the electronic duo Daft Punk, in a nightclub, and later gave him a demo of his track "Vertigo".[4] Bangalter released it on his label, Roulé, in 1997.[5]

After the release of "Vertigo", Braxe performed at the Rex Club in Paris, with Bangalter on keyboards and Diamond on vocals. While rehearsing, the group needed one more track to complete the set.[6] Braxe said they wanted to write a song rather than a "pure club track". They composed the first version of "Music Sounds Better With You" using a looped sample from the 1981 Chaka Khan song "Fate", sampled using an E-mu SP-1200. At the time, Diamond was working in the film industry and singing in a funk and soul band. He left the band when they expressed contempt for his collaboration with electronic musicians, telling him to "go back to see your Daft Punk friends and forget us".

Recording

After the Rex Club performance, Stardust worked on "Music Sounds Better With You" at Bangalter's home studio, Daft House, for six days.[7] They arranged it using a Rhodes piano, a Roland TR-909 drum machine, a bassline recorded on a Korg Trident, and an Ensoniq ASR-10 sampling keyboard, triggering different sections by assigning them to different keys. Diamond's vocals and the final track were compressed with an Alesis 3630. Diamond disliked his vocals at first, but Bangalter and Braxe felt they were perfect.

The lyrics were written by all three members. They wrote more lyrics, but failed to find a way to arrange them and pared the song down to its final form.[8] Diamond felt the final lyrics were "like a mantra ... something everyone could understand". Braxe said they were happy with the finished song, feeling they had created something original.[9] He described its repetition and simplicity as "a balance between getting bored and not bored".

Release

"Music Sounds Better with You" was released as a vinyl single on Bangalter's label Roulé in early 1998. According to Braxe, the song initially confused Paris clubgoers. The single was intended for DJs, but demand grew after copies were distributed at the 1998 Miami Winter Music Conference. According to the Roulé co-manager Gildas Loaec, the BBC Radio 1 DJ Pete Tong was the first radio DJ to play the song. Loaec and Diamond said "Music Sounds Better with You" sold between 250,000 and 400,000 copies on Roulé. Bangalter did not enjoy the pressure and attention this brought, as he had intended Roulé as a hobby and creative platform.

Stardust signed the single to Virgin Records. On 10 August 1998, Virgin released it as a CD and cassette in UK,[10] where it reached number 2 on the UK singles chart and became the year's 11th-bestselling single.[11] In the US, it was serviced to rhythmic contemporary and contemporary hit radio on 15 September,[12] followed by a commercial release on 22 September.[13] It topped the Billboard Dance Club Play chart for two weeks and reached number 62 on the Billboard Hot 100. In Canada, it was released on 6 October,[14] reaching number two on the Canadian Singles Chart and number five on the RPM Dance chart. It reached number one in Greece and Spain and the top 10 in at least nine other countries. It is certified double platinum in the UK, platinum in Australia, and gold in Belgium and France. As of 2018, it had sold more than two million copies worldwide.

Music video

The music video was directed by Michel Gondry and filmed in Los Angeles. In the video, a young boy constructs a model glider over several days while the members of Stardust perform on television, with Bangalter and Braxe wearing metallic masks and Diamond's face painted silver. Braxe described the video as "heart-warming and nostalgic but [with] a hint of melancholy", which he said was a crucial element of dance music.[15] Bruce Tantum of DJ Mag described the video as "charming" and "dreamy".[16] The Insomniac journalist Jonny Coleman wrote that it "helps reinforce the notion that this whole Stardust concept is supposed to exist in some other familiar but foreign liminal space, something ghostly but still warm and inviting".[17]

Critical reception

"Music Sounds Better with You" received acclaim. John Bush from AllMusic described it as "one of the most irresistible, sublime dance singles of the decade". Larry Flick of Billboard described it as a "euro-splashed ditty" with "an infectious li'l hook and a solid, old-school disco bassline ... its execution makes it pop with a refreshing energy".[18] Another editor, Annabel Ross, called it "sublime in its simplicity" and wrote that it was one of the best dance songs.[19] In Pitchfork, Andy Battaglia wrote that "Music Sounds Better with You" demonstrated the similarities between disco and Daft Punk. He praised the "gliding" guitar figure, the "earworm" bassline and the "lascivious" vocals. Tantum wrote that it "doesn't do much of anything, really, nor does it have to. It exists in a state of pleasure-giving perfection."

In 2013, Mixmag named "Music Sounds Better with You" the sixth-greatest dance song,[20] and in 2018 included it in its list of the best vocal house anthems.[21] Pitchfork ranked it the 46th-best song of the 90s,[22] and included it in The Pitchfork 500, a book compiling the greatest songs from 1977 to 2008.[23] In 2011, Slant Magazine named it the 99th-best single of the 90s,[24] and 2012 Porcys ranked it the greatest.[25] In 2017, BuzzFeed named it the 72nd-greatest dance song of the 90s.[26] In 2022, Pitchfork named it one of the best house tracks of the 90s,[27] while Rolling Stone named it the 73rd-greatest dance song.[28] In 2024, The Guardian named it the third-best French touch track.[29]

Legacy

According to Billboard, after the success of "Music Sounds Better with You", Virgin offered Bangalter $3 million to produce a Stardust album. The group created several demos,[30] but abandoned them and declined the offer.[31] [32] In 2012, Braxe said there were no plans to release the demos, saying it gave the record "a certain magic and mystery". In another interview, he said "what happened with the song was really amazing, and we wanted to leave it like that". Diamond said he had wanted to continue with Stardust, but Bangalter was focused on Daft Punk. Apart from their performance at Rex Club, Stardust performed only once, in a 30-minute set at the Borealis festival in Montpellier, France.

Diamond and Braxe resumed their solo careers. Diamond said he found it difficult to return to his own style of music, and his record company, Sony, pressured him to release similar music to Stardust.[33] Bangalter continued to release music as Daft Punk with Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo.[34] They performed a mashup of "Music Sounds Better with You" and their 2000 single "One More Time" on their 2006—2007 tour. A performance was included on the bonus disc of the live album Alive 2007, which Pitchfork described as "a combination so 'holy shit' ecstatic it would seem downright cocky if it wasn't so blissful".[35]

In 2011, Big Time Rush sampled "Music Sounds Better with You" for their track "Music Sounds Better with U".[36] It was also featured in the 2013 video game Grand Theft Auto V.[37] In 2018, Stardust remastered the song for its 20th anniversary. It was reissued by the record label Because Music[38] and added to streaming platforms.

Personnel

Stardust

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1998)!scope="col"
Peak
position
Canada (Nielsen SoundScan)[39] 2
Denmark (IFPI)[40] 17
Europe (Eurochart Hot 100)[41] 5
Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)[42] 12
Greece (IFPI)[43] 1
Iceland (Íslenski Listinn Topp 40)[44] 4
Italy (Musica e dischi)[45] 2
Spain (AFYVE)[46] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (1998)!scope="col"
Position
Australia (ARIA)[47] 36
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[48] 94
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia)[49] 76
Canada Dance (RPM)[50] 15
Europe (Eurochart Hot 100)[51] 30
France (SNEP)[52] 30
Iceland (Íslenski Listinn Topp 40)[53] 77
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[54] 60
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[55] 74
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[56] 100
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[57] 48
UK singles (OCC)[58] 11
US Dance Club Play (Billboard)[59] 2
US Maxi-Singles Sales (Billboard)[60] 23
Chart (1999)!scope="col"
Position
UK Airplay (Music Week)[61] 37
US Maxi-Singles Sales (Billboard)[62] 12

See also

Notes and References

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