Gotye - C or D

i still don't mind it, but then i don't pay much attention to radio/tv and haven't really noticed its ubiquity. Quite nice to see a song actually sticking to number one for a change.

and now it's a big 5000 seater.

And sold out, no less!

And yet every time I hear it I think of "King of Pain."

Yes, me too.

The song's #9 in the U.S., btw.

i kinda like it.

for some reason tho the low-rent quotidian nature of the conflict in the lyrics really rubs me the wrong way, in context of the high-drama moodiness of the song, when this is like what pop songs are supposed to do?

plus his mouth is weird

I heard this song far too late. I like it but everyone is being really fucking irritating about it now so I guess I'll just leave it. sigh

his weird mouth intrigues me

In the '80s this song would have been "Love Plus One" or, I dunno, Bourgeois Tagg. Curious to see if he keeps the ball rolling. Someone told me his first album was more Beck/DJ Shadow-y.

Beck makes a lot of sense, mostly in that this album is all over the place wrt influences and styles. There's a p much straight up Hall & Oates type pop song and a weird electronica lounge song about playing with an at-home hi-fi system. There's a decent amount of stuff to love amidst the filler.

Every once in a while a pop song makes an impact on me, most often because it just sounds so strikingly different than anything else on the radio. Witness this track by Gotye: "Somebody" is haunting and minimalistic and poignant (I try and personalize the song and though I admit I cannot, I still feel empathy) and the dude even lets the gal give her side of the story. Pretty intense and a good video that fits the song as she literally leaves the painting that is his life. Is it possible that I need to get the album it came from? Can there be anything remotely close to this awesome on it?

I dunno, I got the album today, this morning, from My beloved..

strikingly different than anything else on the radio.

Yeah, at the moment this song is one, "Video Games" is another, and "Jar of Hearts" also. Minimalism cuts through, it seems. More of it.

^ these songs seem to appeal to a pretty wide age demographic too.

I've only heard the song on the local AAA station, so it didn't stand out as being crazy-different. But I think it must be getting spins on the Adult Top 40/Hot AC station here, too. Not yet on Rhythmic or Mainstream Top 40.

I remember how jarring it was to hear Kanye's "808s" stuff in rotation, too. Most radio stuff is so dense with information. It's nice to have some breathing room built in.

I also heard the Police/Sting comparisons and am glad I wasn't alone. I think it's because of how he emotes the chorus a lot more intensely than the verses and it has a somewhat unique rhythm, which reminded me of the pseudo-reggae/Clash rhythms of the early Police stuff that stood out among the rest of the pop at the time.

Right, have heard the album

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aw, I was totally going to BLOW MINDS with my "Beck pastiche" analysis of this album and I see ppl have been talking about that for the past 4 months

;_;

also they were GREAT on SNL; the backup harmonies were so tight that on my first view I thought they were all pre-recorded (mostly because the camera work was all in close-ups and didn't show the other other three people singing)

The Police, "King of pain"

Also, "Angel eyes" Roxy Music.

xp yeah granted i've only ever seen them play one song (on a couple different shows now), but his entire backing band/live setup is really really good.

quite honestly this dude and his backing band may be my favorite singers I've discovered this year

just watched both snl songs, it is in fact possible to sound really good on that show i guess.

i really like his singing too, ultimately i couldn't quite get into the album but i have absolutely no issue with this guy blowing up.

Same here. A lot of the album doesn't really work for me, but the songs I like I really like.

my first listen to the album was basically "this isn't really hitting me, but I don't hate this"

listening to it now and it still doesn't hang together but it's more enjoyable than my first listen

http://i.imgur.com/h0rgK.png

lol what the hell

'some bobby that I used to know' is the punchline iirc

also they were GREAT on SNL; the backup harmonies were so tight that on my first view I thought they were all pre-recorded (mostly because the camera work was all in close-ups and didn't show the other other three people singing)

three? i only saw one of the other dudes singing backup, pretty sure there were some backing vocal tracks. like this one is obviously stuffed with pre-recorded vox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YzGOq42zLk

it doesn't really bother me, just saying.

the drummer was singing and so was the dude with the xylophone; the guitarist had a mic but I couldn't tell if he ever sang or not

I read that the single was the guy singing on one note, and the melody was all manipulation.

Same them live a week or two ago, and they were surprisingly solid. It's a seamless mix of live instruments and samplers, a bunch of pre-recorded stuff being triggered and manipulated, plus guys strumming and hitting things.

i enjoy the "band in little room" thing with everyone singing. not perfect but fun imo- for comparison
http://vimeo.com/39793881

The SNL performance sounds pretty good, even given the crappy audio quality of the youtube clip I'm listening to.

(FWIW, I liked the solo Kimbra album from last year a whole lot. Not that I haven't said it before, but with Gotye hitting SNL with Kimbra, I thought I'd mention it again.)

Not that she particularly stole the show. Actually, he sounded a lot better. (Not that she should steal the show on his song, but again, she just sounded okay really.)

just watched both snl songs, it is in fact possible to sound really good on that show i guess.

haha I just wanted to go back to this because I am thinking back to the whole Lana Del Rey argument and going "JUSTIFIED!" to myself

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