Gotye - C or D

lol yeah that was what i was thinking of (as the most recent example at least)

i was too busy thinking of The Outfield and Lou Gramm to considering the Police when this guy was on SNL

there's even that part when he goes "your looove"

lol on my plane ride back home the other day i was sitting next to a woman with a young kid and when this video popped up on the tv screen she shielded it with her hand so the kid wouldn't see it

i mean kimbra's cute (so is gotye per my gf) but....

I still think her album is good. Nyeh.

she shielded it with her hand so the kid wouldn't see it

That video is about as scandalous as a Wendy's commercial.

Gotye + Chaki:

http://i.imgur.com/TUlaK.jpg

is that really him

now he's just somebody that we used to ban

rip

you didn't have to gut me up

even Gotye is suspicious

good work some dude, b/s/j. *slow clap*

i will never give this artist a chance because of his name

why?

i assumed it was said like "gotcha" until SNL revealed it was pronounced like "gaultier"

xxxpost tbf "your love" cops a police sound pretty shamelessly

i thought it was like "Goat-Yay"

goatse featuring kimbra

true re: police/outfield, i guess the lyrics just weren't pretentious enough for me to think of sting

i figured it would be pronounced like "goiter" but without the "er"

I started a dumb thread once about the singer from The Outfield vs. Sting vs. someone else with that kind of voice (can't remember who, now).

Oh yeah, Colin Hay!
TS: Colin Hay (Men at Work) vs. Tony Lewis (The Outfield) vs. Sting (The Police)

regret goiter gis

It's pronounced more or less like "goat-ee-yay," like Jean-Paul Gautier. Per Wiki:

Wouter "Wally" De Backer (born 21 May 1980), also known professionally by his stage name Gotye (pronounced /ˈɡɒti.eɪ/) is a Belgian-Australian multi-instrumental musician and singer-songwriter. The name "Gotye" is derived from "Gaultier", the French equivalent of "Wouter" ("Walter" in English).

So it's sort of this weird Anglo-French colloquial nickname or something. Wally to Walter to Wouter to the French equivalent of Wouter, or Gaultier.

too many syllables

It looks like it should be pronounced "Goat-y" but I guess it kind of functions as a shibboleth for those who are hip to the Goatye phenomenon, whether they know how to pronounce it correctly.

lol Gotye won the trivia nite that Chaki hosts every monday nite at a bar in SF:

(10:14:19 AM) chaki: So last night @ trivia this nerdy dude comes in and proceeds to answer every question right. I'm like who the fuck is this guy and we end up talking about old exotica records for hours. It turns out it's international pop star GOTYE. Dude knows his shit.

I somehow did not hear this song until SNL, heh. Along with the Sting comparisons, its production reminds me of mid-80s Peter Gabriel, or even Mike & the Mechanics, ha.

A friend told me it reminds them of this. Wish I could find a clip of their studio version, but it's a decent example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-I8pEPH-p4&feature=youtu.be

haha that's a pretty cool story! (xpost)

this song has apparently sold over half a million copies in this past week

Gotye-adjacent I guess - just realised one of his touring band members is Tim Shiel aka Faux Pas/Time Shield who does pretty, glitchy, sample-heavy electronica with throwbacks to proggy 70's jams and 80's funk and such.

Most of it is hit-or-miss but I really liked this from a few years ago - basically filled the magical space that Lindstrom vacated after WYGIGT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ind7lEURo2Q

i actually did give gotye a chance. i watched SNL on dvr last night and found it pretty good/charming

at first i didn't want to like him because he looks like the junkie musician dude i hate on Treme

just realised one of his touring band members is Tim Shiel aka Faux Pas/Time Shield

thats p rad!! so is chakis story

listening to this...some real clever, tasteful old school studio sesssionman bass playing on this record

at first i didn't want to like him because he looks like the junkie musician dude i hate on Treme

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lol @ this

album cover looks like art that they would have on the walls of a dentist office when i was a kid

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2012/04/gotye_shows_up_at_sf_pub_trivi.php

That is so perfect and ridiculous. In the best way!

such a good story

$10 says he lurks here

aw cuet! chaki!

wtg chakster

First Australian act to hit #1 in the U.S. since ... Savage Garden?

Ah yes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_by_Australian_artists_which_reached_number-one_on_the_Hot_100_%28USA%29

"Torn" didn't hit number one?

Wow, and INXS only had one number one?

Torn never made it to the main Billboard Hot 100 because of those crazy rules involving the Airplay Chart.

About which:

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2012/04/gotye_somebody_that_i_used_to_know_no_1_billboard.php

That is a great piece, diligently digging into the data to draw some interesting conclusions.