At that point I hit a brick wall.
I started with the Luiz Bonfa sample, then I found the drums, and after that I started working on the lyric and the melody, and added the wobbly guitar-sample melody. ""Somebody That I Used to Know" is an The track was recorded between January and May 2011 with Gotye struggling to find a suitable female vocalist, as a "'high profile' female vocalist" cancelled the collaboration at the last minute, and 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. "Somebody That I Used to Know" has been covered by several artists including In February 2012, Gotye made his American television debut on The song was covered in the English fingerstyle guitarist Gotye paid tribute to the overwhelming number of cover versions of the song by personally creating a video remix, released in August 2012, using segments from hundreds of online covers to create a new, unique version of the track, titled "Somebodies: A YouTube Orchestra".
As of April 2020, the video has been viewed over 1.4 billion times on YouTube. I guess the balance of sounds taken from records and samples I created myself is perhaps 50–50. It was later released by Universal Musicin December 2011 in the United Kingdom, and in January 2012 in the United States and Ireland. from the album Now and then I think of when we were togetherYou can get addicted to a certain kind of sadnessBut you didn't have to cut me offNow and then I think of all the times you screwed me overBut you didn't have to cut me offSomebody Lyrics to 'Somebody That I Used To Know' by Gotye: Now and then I think of when we were together Like when you said you felt so happy you could die Told myself that you were right for me But felt so lonely in your company But that was love and it's an ache I still remember So the third session was all about writing the female part and changing the perspective. It shows Gotye and Kimbra naked throughout the clip, and as they sing, his skin is gradually painted into the backdrop via Before its official premiere, the music video was leaked on "What a video!" In January 2012, Canadian But nothing felt like it was strong enough. After that, I took a break, and a few weeks later I came back to the session and decided on the chorus chord progression, wrote the chorus melody, and combined that with sounds like the Latin loop and some of the percussion and the flute sounds that further filled the space. Credits adapted from "Somebody That I Used to Know" CD single liner notes. The song was released in Australia and New Zealand by Eleven Music on the 5th of July 2011. and I was trying to take lazy decisions to finish the song.
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 Writing for In November 2011, music blog This Must Be Pop predicted the song as a post-Christmas UK hit.In the week commencing 18 July 2011, "Somebody That I Used to Know" debuted at number 27 on the In the United States, it debuted at number 91 on the "Somebody That I Used to Know" reached number one in more than 23 national charts and charted inside the top ten in more than 30 countries around the world.On 15 July 2011, the song finished third in the The music video for "Somebody That I Used to Know" was produced, directed and edited by Australian artist Natasha Pincus and filmed by Australian cinematographer Warwick Field. "Somebody That I Used to Know" is a song written by Belgian-Australian singer-songwriter Gotye, featuring New Zealand singer Kimbra.
I was thinking: 'This is pretty good, how can I get to the end really quickly?' ""Somebody That I Used to Know" is a mid-tempo ballad. I considered repeating the chorus, an instrumental bridge, a change in tempo or key, I even considered finishing the song after the first chorus. The arrangement of 'Somebody' is reflective of me moving towards using sounds that provide me with inspiration for a texture or a platform for an idea, and then through sonic manipulation and coming up with original melodies and harmonic ideas to make it my own.