"Lose Yourself to Dance" is a
disco and
funk song in the key of
B minor with a tempo of 100 BPM. Daft Punk expressed that the song was the result of a desire to create
dance music with live drummers.
Thomas Bangalter elaborated that they wished to redefine dance music as "something lighter or something more [primal]", and that the song is meant to evoke the sense of being unified and connected on the dance floor.
Pharrell Williams sings lead vocals on "Lose Yourself to Dance". Williams stated that the song "makes me feel like walking down the street in the middle of the night in London and it's 1984, 1985. I don't hear '70s in that at all." He also believed that
David Bowie could theoretically have sung the song. which Nick DeCosemo of
Mixmag felt resembled their 2001 song "
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger". Jeremy Abbott of
Mixmag felt that, "Big multi-layered claps and thrashing cymbals also play a big part in driving the song forward." In promotion of the
10th anniversary edition of the album, a video series called
Memory Tapes was released throughout 2023. In Williams's episode, he revealed he did not expect his vocals to be on the finished versions of either song. The episode contains footage of Williams's reaction to the completed "Get Lucky" and "Lose Yourself to Dance" tracks for the first time. One of the bonus tracks on the 10th anniversary edition is a demo without Rodgers called "LYTD (Vocoder Tests)". ==Promotion==