The track uses Edwards' distinctive "cut-up" production style, incorporating over 20 uncredited samples from various soft rock and folk music songs.

Daft Punk first successfully convinced Edwards to collaborate with them after the release of Homework (1997), meeting for two studio sessions to record and build the track.

The song achieved commercial success, reaching the number one spot on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart in 2004.

Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo of Daft Punk had met Todd Edwards prior to releasing their 1997 debut album, Homework.

[8] The song features Edwards' distinctive "cut-up" production style, which involves editing samples and creating spaces between segments.

Early samples identified in the track included Electric Light Orchestra's "Evil Woman"[10] and "Can't Get It Out of My Head", The Alan Parsons Project's "Old and Wise", and Loggins and Messina's "House At Pooh Corner".

[13] In late 2021, a user on a sample-related Discord server identified one of the unknown samples, "South City Midnight Lady" by The Doobie Brothers, using Google Assistant's 'hum to search' option.

[14] Another user utilized BlueStacks along with Google Assistant to input audio directly, successfully identifying the sample "Sometimes a Love Goes Wrong" by Carrie Lucas.

"[30] In February 2024, producer Nickster covered the track using newer samples from the period of 1998 to 2012, including songs by Radiohead, Boards of Canada, LCD Soundsystem, MGMT, Carly Rae Jepsen, Lady Gaga, Estelle, and System of a Down.

[31] DJ Mag described it as a "masterclass is sample chopping that also highlights the lengths to which Daft Punk went in the original track to create a new melody from old snippets.

The film was written by Daft Punk in collaboration with Cédric Hervet and directed by Kazuhisa Takenouchi, Hirotoshi Rissen, and Daisuke Nishio under the visual supervision of Leiji Matsumoto.

Construction crews unearth the space vessel piloted by Shep, who had rescued the band from enslavement and brainwashing by Darkwood, who had disguised himself as their manager.

A news report depicts montage scenes of an operation to send The Crescendolls back to their home planet using Shep's ship.