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.
Simon: Captain's a good fighter, he must know how to handle a sword. Zoe: I think he knows which end to hold.
'Shindig'
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 2:07:50 pm PDT #5016 of 6436
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
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.
Jon B. - Apr 19, 2012 5:08:42 am PDT #5024 of 6436
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Sean -- You've heard tUnE-yArDs, yes?
Sophia Brooks - Apr 19, 2012 5:15:17 am PDT #5025 of 6436
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Weirdly, this cover version also sounds a bit like Sting/Peter Gabriel to me: [link]