Daft Politics
Reported by erun
Never really photographed French knob-twiddlers Daft Punk are the center of a political storm in France after barring the two main candidates for the upcoming presidential elections from using one of their tracks as a campaign song. Both incumbents, Jacques Chirac and his left-wing challenger, Lionel Jospin, France's Prime Minister, had approached the duo asking to use 'One More Time' as their campaign song. Daft Punk refused saying they didn't want their music associated with politics. However, the band then discovered that Chirac had gone ahead and used it anyway at a number of rallies and hustings. Daft Punk demanded he stop, though they stopped short of taking legal action.