Michel Gondry's videos are amazing and this may be his best...

The first time I saw the video for Around the World by Daft Punk I was not really impressed. I liked the song but I felt the video was just sort of strange and only somewhat interesting. Then I discovered the story of how the idea for this video was conceived.

The video for Around the World is meant to be a visual representation of the song; each element in the video represents a different instrument.

According to Gondry's notes, the androids represent the singing robot voice; the physicality and small-minded rapidity of the athletes symbolizes the ascending/descending bass guitar; the femininity of the disco girls represents the high-pitched keyboard; the "itchy" skeletons serve for the guitars; the mummies represent the drum machine.

Now watch the video.... :)

The video below is Michel Gondry Himself explaining the idea for the video and how he came up with it.