bt, I just watched that Kimbra video following a link from the YouTube End-Clip-Mural and really enjoyed it. I was wondering where she was from.
Spike: Heard what happened up top, offing your dad and all. Don't know if you know this, but, uh…I killed my mum. Actually, I'd already killed her, and then she tried to shag me, so I had to-- Wesley: Thank you. I'm…very comforted.
'Lineage'
Buffista Music 4: Needs More Cowbell!
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Sean K - Apr 18, 2012 12:24:49 pm PDT #5014 of 6436
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Jon B. - Apr 18, 2012 12:36:11 pm PDT #5015 of 6436
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Gotye also kicks ass at a pub trivia night: [link]
Sean K - Apr 18, 2012 2:07:50 pm PDT #5016 of 6436
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I love that her voice in the song exists primarily to destroy the romanticism of his memories. I also love that the second time he sings "but you didn't have to cut me off," he's interrupting her to shut out her accusations.
smonster - Apr 18, 2012 2:38:18 pm PDT #5017 of 6436
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I am also on the love trains for Gotye and Kimbra. They toured together a bit here in the States in the last few weeks, and she was at SXSW.
Jesse - Apr 18, 2012 3:01:03 pm PDT #5018 of 6436
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Is it wrong that I think I like the Glee version of "Somebody That I Used to Know" better than the Gotye version?
le nubian - Apr 18, 2012 4:10:26 pm PDT #5019 of 6436
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I like the harmonies better with the Glee version.
Sean K - Apr 18, 2012 7:35:24 pm PDT #5020 of 6436
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I watched a bunch of Kimbra videos because of you, bt, and I'm quite taken with her. She likes to live multitrack with herself. That's cool.
billytea - Apr 18, 2012 7:48:03 pm PDT #5021 of 6436
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I watched a bunch of Kimbra videos because of you, bt, and I'm quite taken with her. She likes to live multitrack with herself. That's cool.
I am eminently comfortable taking credit for your Kimbra-related viewing habits.
Sean K - Apr 18, 2012 8:17:00 pm PDT #5022 of 6436
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I particularly enjoyed watching her work the multitrack in this video: [link] She sings the way Brian May plays guitar.
Fiona - Apr 19, 2012 4:33:11 am PDT #5023 of 6436
I would suggest it's not just the singing so much as other things through which Gotye makes people think of Peter Gabriel and Sting. The songwriting: the unsympathetic first-person narrator (Big Time, Moon Over Bourbon Street, Every Breath You Take). And the video: it has so much in common with Sledgehammer that I think I'll show them one after the other in my music video lecture next semester.
It's a GREAT video.
Edited because I did a post-and-run and got some song titles wrong.