Brief Analyzing of Daft Punk ft. Julian Casablancas — Instant Crush

The song entitled “Instant Crush” by Daft Punk, a French electronic music duo formed that had broken up about three weeks ago, featuring Julian Casablancas, an American singer whose best known as the lead singer of a rock band, The Strokes. The music clearly emphasizes electronic signature sound with heavy synth-pop as its genre.

This song’s lyrics may have different interpretations, but the song’s lyrics tend to tell about a triangle relationship in a friendship between two guys and one girl. The first guy develops a crush on the girl, but he tries not to let his true feelings show, and chains himself as a friend as a comfort zone. But, the first guy is a real loser, he suspects there is more than friendship between the girl and the second guy that is also his friend, then he can never know if he can be with her or not.
With this complicated circumstance, the first guy doesn’t want to believe the reality they’ve created. So he wishes their connection never happened.

The message is sometimes there is a downside if you hide your feeling from someone if you see your crush has a relationship with another, it may drag you down if you don’t willing that. But if you have another principle that life isn’t always about relationships, you believe that your current crush isn’t the best for you, you may deal with the circumstance. Now, let’s move to the figurative language.

Got four figurative languages of this song,
The first is Assonance :
I didn’t want to be the one to forget
I thought of everything I’d never regret
A little time with you is all that I get
The writer uses Assonance as the repetition of similar vowels in the lyric, those are forget, regret, and get.

Next is Personification, first personification,
One thousand lonely stars hiding in the cold
This personification means we can imagine the first guy looking to the sky lost in thought over the circumstance, He then sadly expresses he is messed up and feeling alone.
The second personification,
The summer memory that just never dies
The writer describes that the first guy’s suspicion of the girl’s relationship is unforgettable.

Moving to the last figurative language, Simile
Cause I know it unlocks like a door
this means the first guy realizes if she chains himself as a friend to the girl, the second guy will easily try to fall in love with the girl like an unlocked door.