Somebody that I used to know by Gotye featuring Kimbra – Music

Somebody that I used to know by Gotye featuring Kimbra – Music

It is one of those songs, which is getting a lot of air-play on various radios and music channels these days. The song is sung by an Australian-Belgian male singer and songwriter Gotye and track also features melodic voice of female singer Kimbra from New
Zealand. The song has a very catchy tune and lyrically it is about the usual relationship problem. It was released on 6 July 2011 as the second single from Gotye’s third studio album Making Mirrors. The song has also been featured in two of the famous TV shows:
90210 and Gossip Girl.

The song was released into critical acclaim by music critics and a surprising success in Australia, peaking at number one in the country for eight weeks, becoming the longest running Australian song since Savage Garden’s 1997 song, "Truly Madly Deeply".
The song received other success in European countries particularly Flanders (the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium), the Netherlands, Germany, Austria and Poland
where it peaked at number one. In Kimbra’s home country, New Zealand, the song has also reached number one.

It is Gotye and Kimbra’s highest-charting, selling and first number-one song in Australia and New Zealand, also causing their previous singles and albums to chart in the top 100 in Australia.

Besides the original song, the song is also making a huge buzz in the form of covers that other artists have done. One of the popular covers has been done by a Canadian band ‘Walk off the Earth’. The band has done a great job in covering the song and on
youtube it has more than 16,494,143 hits so far. Likewise, the song has also been covered by the indie pop singer Ingrid Michaelson.

The song also has an interesting video which shows Gotye naked (there is no explicit nudity) against a white backdrop. As he starts singing, a pattern of paint gradually covers his skin and the backdrop via stop-motion animation. Kimbra then appears for
her verse, also naked and already painted but with her back to the camera. She moves closer to Gotye to sing into his ear. During the final chorus, Kimbra returns to her original position and the paint on her body gradually disappears, further indicating that
the two have separated.

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Posted by Irfan Khokhar on Jan 13 2012. Filed under Entertainment. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry