The track was recorded between January and May with Gotye struggling to find a suitable female vocalist, as a 'high profile' female vocalist' cancelled the collaboration at the last minute, and Kimbra 'lucked out as the replacement'. Gotye stated that the song was 'definitely drawn from various experiences I've had in relationships breaking up, and in the parts of the more reflective parts of the song, in the aftermath and the memory of those different relationships and what they were and how they broke up and what's going on in everyone's minds.
Yeah, so it's an amalgam of different feelings but not completely made up as such'. The song received generally positive reviews, winning the Grammy for Record of the Year.
Take 40 Australia elaborated on the audience's reception at the July Splendour in the Grass festival, 'Gotye's latest song featuring Kimbra 'Somebody That I Used To Know' had become somewhat of an unofficial anthem for the festival Fortunately, dreams came true Writing for Digital Spy, Lewis Corner rated the song four stars out of five and described it as 'a Bon Iver-styled ballad for the music-buying masses'.
It's a really special recording and video'. My inbox, on any given day, has at least five covers or parodies or remixes of it and there's only so many times you can listen to the one song. After a few weeks in the charts, it reached number 1 in both countries, topping the Belgian Singles Chart for 12 weeks. In its fifteenth week on the chart — after it was performed by Matt Bomer and Darren Criss on Glee on 10 April; by Phillip Phillips and Elise Testone on the eleventh season of American Idol before more than 16 million viewers on 11 April; [32] and by Gotye and Kimbra on Saturday Night Live on 14 April — the song rose to number 1, [33] where it stayed for eight consecutive weeks.
The song had the fourth highest-selling single week ever with , digital downloads sold, and was the first Australian single to top the Hot since Savage Garden's 'I Knew I Loved You' in By 22 February , the song became the tenth longest-charting song in the history of the Billboard Hot , at 59 weeks on the chart.
As of April , it is the most downloaded song ever in Belgium, [46] as well as being the third best-selling digital single in Germany with sales between , and , copies, [47] [48] and the most successful song in the history of the Dutch charts. The song was the best-selling single of in the UK with 1,, copies sold. It shows Gotye and Kimbra naked throughout the clip, and as they sing, his skin is gradually painted into the backdrop via stop motion animation. In the director's cut, this went as far as to feature concealed nudity, though this version was never posted.
Melbourne Scenic Artist Howard Clark painted the backdrop. Before its official premiere, the music video was leaked on Take 40 Australia's website. According to Pincus, 'It was stolen out of our system. I guess it's always wanted to get out there. Within five minutes it was everywhere'. The music video was well received for its artistic style, picking up , views in its first two weeks, as well as receiving promotion on Twitter by actor Ashton Kutcher and Katy Perry.
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 March , the video has been viewed over 1. 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'.
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