I knew it was special, but I honestly thought it was going to be, like, a track six ballad on the record. So maybe you guys are way smarter than me. What was your experience of receiving the Grammy for Record of the Year then? I was very excited to be in the same room as my idols.
They were all sitting together. I had no expectations of winning the Grammy. I thought it was incredible that we were nominated. We were just excited that we were going to be part of the event. Do you recall the moment when they read your name? Now that part I remember very well! That moment of the nominations being called out was very unreal. What happened behind the scenes to your life after the Grammys? My career was taking off, but I was kind of hesitant to even let that in because I am very wary of success.
I know that it can be gone in a heartbeat. Ten years ago, Gotye released 'Somebody That I Used To Know', a duet recorded with New Zealand singer Kimbra that went Platinum in Australia a ridiculous 17 times, as well as going 14 times platinum in the United States, a notoriously difficult market to crack. It was the number one song in the Hottest of It was the number one song just about everywhere at some stage.
It's video was an iconic as its chorus, a key ingredient to a song's success in an era where YouTube began to reign supreme. It was covered lovingly and parodied ruthlessly , acclaimed by so many and maligned by a noisy and irritated few. Everyone had a stance on it. All traits of a truly viral, omnipresent hit. The scale of it, the way that it kept rolling on.
People saying 'This song is plastered everywhere. I can't go to a mall without hearing it. Whether I hate it or like it — I don't want to hear it anymore!
Gotye himself is an engaging character for sure None more than the title line when it speaks of the end of love with prosaic brutality: 'Now you're just somebody that I used to know. Oh, and Kimbra As of May , the video has been watched over half a billion times on YouTube.
Kelly Clarkson tackled the song during a concert in August It sold , digital downloads in its first week of release and debuted on the Digital Songs chart at number 10 and the Hot at number Gotye paid tribute to the overwhelming number of cover versions of the song by personally creating a video remix, released in August , using segments from hundreds of online covers to create a new, unique version of the track, titled "Somebodies: A YouTube Orchestra".
Lott , combining the song with images from Alfred Hitchcock's film "Vertigo". The images and the song combine to convey the relationship between the film's male and female leads James Stewart and Kim Novak, respectively. Their version uses a single guitar played simultaneously by all five band members.
As of April , the song had sold , units in the United States. The alternative rock band Mayday Parade released a cover of this song for fifth edition of the compilation album Punk Goes Pop , which features bands of the punk, alternative, and hardcore genres covering hit pop songs.
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