Belgian born Wally De
Backer is an Indie Rock singer-songwriter who records under the name of
Gotye. He moved with his family to Australia at the age of 2 and has
been releasing music there since 2001. De Backer achieved a breakthrough
with his second album Like Drawing Blood, which was voted # in
the Triple J listeners poll of the Best Album of 2006. This is the
second single from De Backer's third album, Making Mirrors. The LP was released in the summer of 2011 and went to #1 in Australia.
The
song features New Zealand singer-songwriter Kimbra, who won her
country's Critics' Choice awards in 2011; the award is intended to
recognize and nurture up-coming talent. Gotye didn't begin writing this
song as a duet, but after he finished the first verse, he realized he
had nowhere to go with the character he was writing about, and needed to
introduce another voice.
"Somebody"
was both produced and written by Gotye in his parents' barn on the
Mornington Peninsula, south-east of Melbourne. It finds Gotye addressing
a past lover, reminiscing about their relationship and break-up. The
song draws from the aftermath and memory of several relationships, but
he told Rolling Stone Australia that one does resound louder than
the others. "There is an ex-girlfriend I know." he admitted. "It was
five-six years ago. It wasn't a nasty breakup, but it was messy in the
sense that we hurt each other more than we needed to because it wasn't a
clean break. I guess it's closest to what the chorus is about. We both
realized we had to move on and we haven't seen each other since."
- When and where did he write this song? what is the song about?
I like this song too much.i'd like this song one day in class
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