Gotye

[tamakun]

Over the past few weeks at work, there has been a song that catches my ears every time I had heard it. All I could really make out of the song was a catchy guitar strum coupled with a xylophone.

Thanks to online playlists, I gathered up all the songs that I had been listening to (including some by The Black Keys and Foster The People), but the one song that caught my attention, this one with the xylophone, was Gotye's "Somebody I Used To Know":

I'm kinda strange eclectic to what kind of music I like. I listen to a lot of Boom 97.3 (70s, 80s, 90s) when I'm at work, and Humbertown happens to stay on The Edge most days. Then, of course, there's plenty of Japanese music which I can't comprehend, and soundtracks from games like No More Heroes which are practically... um, hard to describe but energetic as all heck. But I'm veering way off point.

Anyhow, I thought the music was pretty nice, and Christine's got a pretty different music taste than I do. However, I thought this was a great song that she should hear, so I sent it along to her (finding it on YouTube by simply typing "g" in the search bar brings up "gotye somebody that i used to know" as the first result, which is incredibly scary), and she enjoyed it too. So we started surfing YouTube for other Gotye songs. We first came across "Hearts a Mess":

Which then moved on to other videos. We discovered that every video that we found featured some form of animation. The list kept counting up as we went through practically his entire songlist from his latest CD, "Making Mirrors":

Just before I went off to work, she was showing the videos to one of her friends, where we found a new video:

Christine showed me this one when I woke up the next morning:

However, this last one that we found on our first night of exploration was the one that kinda stuck with us. Here's a warning that it might be considered Nightmare Fuel to some:

Strangely enough, State of the Art is the one song that keeps getting stuck in our heads...