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lunes, 21 de mayo de 2012

Gotye

Wouter "Wally" De Backer, nacido el 21 de mayo de 1980 en Brujas, tambien conocido con el nombre artístico de  Gotye, es un músico cantante y compositor de rock, belga-australiano.

Ha lanzado tres álbumes de manera independiente, y un álbum remix, conteniendo remixes de canciones de sus primeros albumes. Tambien es uno de los integrantes de la banda indie-pop The Basics, que ha lanzado tres álbumes de estudio independientes y otros títulos desde el 2002.

La canción que escuché era Somebody That I Used To Know, del disco de 2011 Making Mirrors, que fué un gran éxito en todo el mundo, llegando a número uno, en toda Europa, en Estados Unidos, y especialmente en Australia donde consiguió siete discos de platino.


Los álbumes que ha publicado Gotye, son: Boardface (2003), Like Drawing Blood (2006), Making Mirrors (2011) y Mixed Blood (2011).

En general, nada digno de destacar, pero despues de diez años de profesión, de pronto llega el éxito, y algo tendrá la citada canción, que interpreta con la cantante Kimbra. La canción es moderna, pero la grabación adolece de un sonido imperfecto, con su voz atenuada y poco clara. De todas maneras, siempre cuesta un poco acostumbrarse a las voces nuevas. Asi que la he incluido, temporalmente, en el playlist de mi blog, para poder oirla varias veces más.

Ahora publico la letra, para poder entender algo la canción.

Somebody That I Used To Know

Now and then I think of when we were together
Like when you said you felt so happy you could die
I 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

You can get addicted to a certain kinda sadness
Like resignation to the end, always the end
So when we found that we could not make sense
Well you said that we would still be friends
But I'll admit that I was glad that it was over

But you didn't have to cut me off
Make it like it never happened and that we were nothing
I don't even need your love, but you treat me like a stranger
And that feels so rough

No, you didn't have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records
And then change your number
Guess that I don't need that though
Now you're just somebody that I used to know

Now you're just somebody that I used to know
Now you're just somebody that I used to know

Now and then I think of all the times you screwed me over
But had me believin it was always something that I'd done

But I don't wanna live that way
Reading into every word you say
You said that you could let it go
And I wouldn't catch you hung up on somebody that you used to know-oh-oh

But you didn't have cut me off
Make it like it never happened and that we were nothing (oh)
I don't even need your love, but you treat me like a stranger
and that feels so rough

(oh)

No, you didn't have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect you records
And then change your number (oh)
Guess that I don't need that though
Now you're just somebody that I used to know

Somebody that I used to know
Somebody (now your just somebody that I used to know)
That I used to know
Somebody that I used to know
Somebody (somebody) (now your just somebody that I used to know)
That I used to know

I used to know
That I used to know
I used to know
Somebody

En España, no llegó a destacar alcanzado solo puesto secundarios

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