With the downtempo era exhausted by the time the millenial apocalypse transpired [not so much] , the music world mostly unwelcomed the French group. I'm not here to say whether that sentiment was fair or not, but this song in particular superceded the genre with a melody materialized in the ether, whose trajectory somehow brought it into our atmosphere.
Was this a gift from God or was it a cosmic reminder that we cannot calendarize our fate?