Somebody That I Used to Know
(by:Gotye)
"
Somebody That I Used to Know" is a song written and recorded by Belgian-Australian singer-songwriter
Gotye, featuring New Zealand singer/guitarist
Kimbra. The song was released in Australia and New Zealand by
Eleven Music on 5 July 2011 as the second single from Gotye's third
studio album,
Making Mirrors (2011). It was later released by
Universal Music
in December 2011 in the United Kingdom, and in January 2012 in the
United States and Ireland. "Somebody That I Used to Know" was written
and recorded by Gotye at his parents' house on the
Mornington Peninsula in Victoria and is lyrically related to the experiences he has had with relationships.
"Somebody That I Used to Know" is a mid-tempo,
indie pop, ballad song. It samples
Luiz Bonfá's song "Seville" from his 1967 album
Luiz Bonfa Plays Great Songs. The song received positive reception from critics, who noted the similarities between the song and works by
Sting and American
folk band
Bon Iver. The song won the
Triple J Hottest 100 poll at the end of 2011, as well as
ARIA Awards
for song of the year and best video, while Kimbra was voted best female
artist and Gotye was named best male artist and producer of the year.
Commercially, "Somebody That I Used to Know" became Gotye's most successful and
signature song.
It topped the US, UK, Australian as well as 23 other national charts,
and reached the top 10 in more than 30 countries around the world. The
song has sold more than 13 million copies worldwide, becoming one of
the best-selling digital singles of all time.
[1] It was also placed at the top of a number of year-end charts by
Billboard (including the Hot 100) and other record chart companies around the world.
"Somebody That I Used to Know" has been performed several times live on shows such as
The Voice,
American Idol and
Saturday Night Live. It was covered by Canadian
indie rock group
Walk off the Earth using a single guitar played simultaneously by all five band members. The original single's accompanying
music video
was directed by Natasha Pincus. The video premiered on 30 July 2011 and
shows Gotye and Kimbra naked against a white backdrop, and while they
sing, a pattern of paint gradually covers his skin and the backdrop via
stop motion animation.
Composition and recording
"Somebody That I Used to Know" is an
indie pop song that is four minutes and five seconds long.
[1][2] Gotye uses a sample of
Brazilian jazz guitarist
Luiz Bonfá's 1967 instrumental song "Seville",
[3] with additional instrumentations of beats and a
xylophone.
[4][5] It was written and produced by Gotye himself, while in his parents' barn on the
Mornington Peninsula,
Victoria. Gotye commented that he wrote the song "in quite a linear
way", explaining that "I wrote the first verse, the second verse and I'd
got to the end of the first chorus and for the first time ever I
thought, 'There's no interesting way to add to this guy's story'. It
felt weak".
[6]
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
Kimbra "lucked out as the replacement".
[7]
He tested his girlfriend, Tash Parker, but "somehow their happiness
meant that it didn't work out" so he followed the recommendation of the
song's mixer and used Kimbra's vocals.
[7][8] Bill Lamb of About.com compared the song's opening with "the intimate percussive feel of classic pop songs by the
Thompson Twins".
[9]
Martin Davies from Click Music considered the song "instantly
captivating", and named Kimbra's voice "clean and sugar-soaked", further
commenting that it bears an "uncanny resemblance" to singer
Katy Perry.
[10]
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".
[11] In an interview with
Rolling Stone
(Australia), he described the song as "a curated reflection of multiple
past relationships", but the chorus was directly related to a song
written by Elliott Smith with the same title.
Reception
Critical response
The song received generally positive reviews.
Take 40 Australia elaborated on the audience's reception at the July 2011
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 ... every car was cranking it over their speakers all day,
every day ... and the question on everyone's lips was whether or not
Kimbra would join him on the track. Fortunately, dreams came true ... he
smashed out an incredible set climaxing with a version of the song with
Kimbra on co-lead vocals that people couldn't stop talking about all
weekend long".
[12] Allmusic's
Jon O'Brien felt the track was an "unexpected chart-topper ... [it] is
an oddball break-up song whose stuttering rhythms, reggae hooks, and
hushed vocals sound like
The Police as remixed by
the XX".
[13]
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".
[14] Bill Lamb of
About.com
gave the song the perfect rating of five stars stating, "Pop perfection
does not come along often, but Gotye's 'Somebody That I Used to Know'
is flawless". He also said that while it is not flashy, the song is
memorable and destined to be a classic. He explained it reminded him of
Human League's "
Don't You Want Me" and
Sting. He concluded that "Somebody That I Used to Know" will be one of the top songs of 2012.
[9]
Martin Davies from Click Music gave the song five stars out of five and
stated that the song is "that rare example of a track that hits you
squarely between the eyes".
[10]
In November 2011, music blog This Must Be Pop predicted the song as a post-Christmas UK hit.
[15]
John Watson, who co-manages Gotye with Danny Rogers, said of the
single's success: "We've never seen any song make a deeper or more
immediate connection with so many people. It's a really special
recording and video".
[16]
Talking about the overwhelming reception and the amount of coverage
received, Gotye commented that "I don't really feel like it [the song]
belongs to me anymore."
[17]
He further explained that "sometimes I feel like I'm a bit sick of it.
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."
[17]
Commercial performance
In the week commencing 18 July 2011, "Somebody That I Used to Know" debuted at No. 27 on the
ARIA Singles Chart.
[18][19][20] It was released on 5 July 2011 in Australia and New Zealand by
Eleven Music as the second single from his third studio album,
Making Mirrors (2011).
[18]
Despite an initial lack of airplay on major radio stations, the song
reached No. 1 in the week ending 15 August, becoming the first single by
either artist to do so and their most successful single.
[19][21] The song subsequently became the second-longest-running Australian number-one song ever with eight weeks at the top,
[19] tied with
Savage Garden's 1997 song "
Truly Madly Deeply", and behind
Daddy Cool's 1971 hit "
Eagle Rock", which stayed there for ten weeks.
[22]
On August 2011 the song was released in Belgium and the Netherlands.
After a few weeks in the charts, it reached No. 1 in both countries,
topping the Belgian
Singles Chart for 12 weeks.
[23][24] Also in August, "Somebody That I Used to Know" debuted at No. 4 in New Zealand on the
RIANZ Singles Chart, reaching No. 1 three weeks later,
[25] thus making Gotye the first Australian artist to reach No. 1 since
Guy Sebastian did so in February 2011 with "
Who's That Girl".
[26] The song debuted on the
Irish Singles Chart on 13 January 2012 at No. 47, later reaching No. 1 position.
[27] In the United Kingdom, "Somebody That I Used to Know" spent five non-consecutive weeks at No. 1.
[28][29]
In the United States, it debuted at number 91 on the
Billboard Hot 100 on 14 January 2012. 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;
[30] and by Gotye and Kimbra on
Saturday Night Live on 14 April – the song rose to No. 1.
[31]
The song had the fourth highest-selling single week ever with 542,000
digital downloads sold, and was the first Australian single to top the
Hot 100 since
Savage Garden's "
I Knew I Loved You" in 2000.
[32][33] As of 6 June 2012, it has remained at No. 1 for eight consecutive weeks,
[34][35][36][37] thus becoming the longest-running number 1 by a solo male artist since
Flo Rida's "
Low" led for ten weeks in 2008. The song also topped the
Alternative Songs chart for twelve weeks,
[34] as well as the
Radio Songs,
Digital Songs,
On-Demand Songs,
[38] Pop Songs,
Adult Pop Songs and
Hot Dance Club Songs charts in that country.
[34] On 2 May 2012 the song became the first to reach digital sales of at least 400,000 for three consecutive weeks,
[39] and the following week it became the first to simultaneously top the Alternative Songs, Hot Dance Club Songs and
Dance Mix Show Airplay charts.
[40] As of January 2013, the song has sold 7,000,000 copies in the US.
[41][42]
Worldwide, "Somebody That I Used to Know" has sold 10 million copies,
[1] making it the biggest selling single of 2012 and one of
the best-selling digital singles of all time. It reached No. 1 in more than 23 national charts and charting inside the top ten in more than 30 countries around the world.
[33] As of April 2012, it is the most downloaded song ever in Belgium,
[43] as well as being the third best-selling digital single in Germany with sales between 500,000 and 600,000 copies,
[44][45] and the most successful song in the history of the Dutch charts.
[46] As of January 2013 it has received eleven
Platinum certifications in Australia, accounting for shipments exceeding 770,000 units.
[47]
In New Zealand, it was certified four times Platinum. The song is the
best-selling single of 2012 in the UK with 1,318,000 copies sold.
[48][49]
Accolades
On 15 July 2011, the song finished third in the
2011 Vanda & Young Songwriting Competition, with the winning song, "Cameo Lover", by Kimbra.
[50] Earlier that year, Gotye had first noticed Kimbra when both were short-listed as finalists for the competition.
[8] At the
ARIA Music Awards of 2011,
"Somebody That I Used to Know" won Single of the Year, Best Pop
Release, Best Video (for Natasha Pincus), Engineer of the Year (for
François Tétaz)
and Producer of the Year (for Gotye). Gotye also won Best Male Artist
for the song while Kimbra won Best Female Artist for her previous
single, "Cameo Lover".
[51][33] At the
APRA Music Awards of 2012, "Somebody That I Used to Know" won Most Played Australian Work and Song of the Year and Gotye won Songwriter of the Year.
[52] It is also nominated at the 2012
Teen Choice Awards for "Choice Rock Song" and "Choice Break-Up Song".
[53][54] The song is nominated at the
55th Grammy Awards for
Record of the Year and
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance.
Promotion
Music video
Gotye and Kimbra sing while painted to blend with the background.
The
music video
for "Somebody That I Used to Know", which was directed and produced by
Natasha Pincus, shows both Gotye and Kimbra naked throughout the clip,
and as they sing, his skin is gradually painted into the backdrop via
stop motion animation.
[55][56]
The painting used in the video's background is based on a 1980s artwork
created by Gotye's father, Frank de Backer, who also designed the cover
art for the related album,
Making Mirrors.
[56][57] Emma Hack, an Australian artist and
skin illustrator based in
Adelaide, was hired by Pincus to work on the body paintings for Gotye and Kimbra, and also worked with Gotye to design the backdrop.
[57] According to Hack, it took more than 23 hours to paint both Gotye and Kimbra to fit with the background.
[57] Their painting symbolises their combined relationship.
[57]
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".
[56] On 30 July 2011 it was officially premiered on
YouTube and on the Australian music show
Rage.
The music video was well received for its artistic style, picking up
200,000 views in its first two weeks, as well as receiving promotion on
Twitter by actor
Ashton Kutcher and
Katy Perry.
[16][56] As of December 2012, the video has over 357 million views on YouTube.
[58] The video for "Somebody That I Used to Know" was voted No. 1 in the annual
Rage Fifty countdown.
[59] Andy Samberg and
Taran Killam parodied the video in a
Saturday Night Live "digital short" that coincided with Gotye's 14 April 2012 performance on the show.
[60] The video was nominated for
Video of the Year and
Best Editing in a Video at the
2012 MTV Video Music Awards.
[61]
Cover versions and media appearances
"Somebody That I Used to Know" has been covered by several artists including
a cappella group
Pentatonix who created a viral
YouTube video in February 2012 and will release the track on their EP, "PTX Volume 1" on 26 June 2012
[62] In addition
Ingrid Michaelson,
The Fergies and
Sam Tsui have covered the song.
[63] In January Canadian band
Walk off the Earth's version was sent to YouTube and went
viral.
[64] In February 2012,
Rita Ora covered the song at
BBC Radio 1's
Live Lounge.
[65] A cover by Right the Stars featuring
Karmina, which was also uploaded to YouTube, was recommended by
Miley Cyrus.
[66] Dutch DJ
Tiësto remixed the song for his album
Club Life: Volume Two Miami.
[67] Boyce Avenue also covered the song.
Matthew Bomer and
Darren Criss made a cover of the song during
Glee's "
Big Brother" episode which aired on 10 April 2012. Their performance was described as "the highlight of the episode".
[68] It sold 152,000 downloads in its first week and debuted on 18 April 2012 on the Digital Songs chart at No. 10 and the
Billboard Hot 100 at No. 26.
[32] An electronic music DJ and producer named Kap Slap created a
mashup that combines "Somebody That I Used to Know" with
electro house DJ
Hardwell's song "Spaceman" called "Spaceman I Used to Know" and also contains vocals from
Adele's song
Rumour Has It and
Lady Gaga's song
Judas.
[69]
Phillip Phillips and
Elise Testone covered the song on the eleventh season of
American Idol on 11 April 2012.
[30] In February 2012, Gotye made his American television debut on
Jimmy Kimmel Live! where he performed the song.
[70] The song has since been featured on the TV series
90210,
[71] Gossip Girl,
[72] and
The Voice.
[73] On 16 May 2012,
Fun and
Paramore's front vocalist
Hayley Williams covered the song at BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge.
[74] On 23 May 2012, Internet cartoon band
Your Favorite Martian did a cover of the song.
[75] "Somebody That I Used to Know" was also first played live by
Coheed and Cambria on 29 April 2012, as a frequent feature on their 2012 headlining tour.
[76] In May 2012, American duo
Karmin made a cover of the song on
Sirius XM Hits.
[77] Kelly Clarkson tackled the song during a concert in August 2012.
[78] Dutch symphonic rockers,
Within Temptation
also covered the song as part of Belgium radio station, Q-Music's
Within Temptation Fridays, a program leading up to the band's 15th
anniversary.
[79]
In January 2012, Canadian
indie rock group
Walk off the Earth
uploaded a cover of "Somebody That I Used to Know" to YouTube. Their
version uses a single guitar played simultaneously by all five band
members. Walk off the Earth later played the song live on
The Ellen DeGeneres Show, again on a single guitar.
[80] As of 3 January 2012 it has over 143 million views on YouTube.
[81] As of April 2012, the song had sold 187,000 units in the United States.
[82] The song was covered in the
Glee episode "
Big Brother" and performed by
Darren Criss (as
Blaine Anderson) and
Matt Bomer (as
Cooper Anderson).
It sold 152,000 digital downloads in its first week of release and
debuted on the Digital Songs chart at No. 10 and the Hot 100 at No. 26.
[83]
Gotye paid tribute to the overwhelming number of cover versions of the
song by releasing a video remix, using segments from hundreds of online
parodies and covers and creating a new, unique version of the track,
titled "Somebodies: A YouTube Orchestra".
[84]
Track listing
- Digital download[2]
- "Somebody That I Used to Know" (Gotye featuring Kimbra) – 4:04
- "Somebody That I Used to Know" (Radio Mix) (Gotye featuring Kimbra) – 3:33
- Digital download – Remix[85]
- "Somebody That I Used to Know" (Gotye featuring Kimbra) (Tiësto Remix) – 4:33
|
- 7" Vinyl single[86]
- "Somebody That I Used to Know" (Gotye featuring Kimbra) – 4:04
- "Bronte" – 3:13
- CD single[87]
- "Somebody That I Used to Know" (Gotye featuring Kimbra) – 4:04
- "Easy Way Out" – 1:57
|
Credits and personnel
- Wally de Backer – songwriter, producer, assistant mixer, recording, lead and backing vocals, guitar, flutes, percussion, samples
- François Tétaz – mixer, engineer
- Lucas Taranto – bass guitar
- Kimbra – lead and backing vocals
- William Bowden – mastering
- Frank de Backer – artwork (back and inside cover painting, handwriting)
- Kat Kallady – artwork (front cover painting)
Credits adapted from "Somebody That I Used to Know" CD single liner notes.
[87]
Charts and certifications
Weekly charts
|
Year-end charts
Certifications
|
Release history
Walk off the Earth version
In January 2012, Canadian
indie rock group
Walk off the Earth
uploaded a cover of "Somebody That I Used to Know" to YouTube. Their
version uses a single guitar played simultaneously by all five band
members. Walk off the Earth later played the song live on
The Ellen DeGeneres Show, again on a single guitar.
[174] As of 12 August 2012 it has over 132 million views on YouTube.
[175] As of April 2012, the song had sold 187,000 units in the United States.
[82]
Track listing
- "Somebody That I Used to Know" – 4:08
- "Somebody That I Used to Know" (Music video) – 4:25
- "Somebody That I Used to Know" – 4:08
- "Money Tree" – 3:13
- "Joan and Bobby" – 3:38
- "From Me to You" – 1:48
- "Somebody That I Used to Know" (Video) – 4:25
Glee Cast version
The song was covered in the
Glee episode "
Big Brother" and performed by
Darren Criss (as
Blaine Anderson) and
Matt Bomer (as
Cooper Anderson).
It sold 152,000 digital downloads in its first week of release and
debuted on the Digital Songs chart at No. 10 and the Hot 100 at No. 26.
[188]
Charts
Mayday Parade Cover
The
Pop 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. Their cover became the first single off of a
Punk Goes... compilation album to chart on a
Billboard chart, reaching #18 on
US Rock Songs.
Charts
See also
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