144 times. That’s the number of repetitions the one and only sentence in Daft Punks’ “Around the World” gets. Does that make the song Gross? On the contrary!

The video is resembling the structure of the song quite closely: There are five instruments, and therefore five groups of characters. Robots for voice (apparently powered by the program you wrote back then for that “introduction to algorithms” class, by the looks of their collision reactions 😋), athletes for the bass, disco dancers for the keyboard, skeletons for the guitar (in a divergence to their traditional role in Saint-Saëns’ “Le Carnaval des Animaux”) and last, but not least: mummies for the drums.

A meticulously planned mathematical companion to a catchy tune? Count me in!