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conseguido varias versiones de la canción: “SOMEBODY
THAT I USED TO KNOW”. Sería interesante que las escucharan y me dijeran cual es la que mas gusta.
Luego publicaríamos algunos comentarios de las personas que nos enviaran su
opinión. Gracias
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Walk Off The Earth is an
unconventional, multi-talented five-piece musical phenomena that is currently
taking the world by storm. Based in Burlington, Ontario (just outside of
Toronto), their brilliant 5-people-playing-one-guitar interpretation of Gotye's
"Somebody That I Used
To Know" recently exploded on Youtube garnering well over 35 million views in under 2
weeks. The massive fan response quickly drew attention to
their collection of innovative songs and videos spanning their last 5 years and
generated an unprecedented flood of media interest. New fans from around the
world immediately fell in love with the band's organic, independent, sincere
and honest original songwriting, cover interpretations and beautifully filmed
videos. For the past 5 years, the band has built a massive following of dedicated
fans from around the world through their unique and heartwarming approach to
songwriting, filming and constant, open interaction with everyone their music
touches.
The chemistry between
the members of Walk
Off The Earth is undeniable. Marshall, Sarah and Gianni's
individual vocal stylings mesh seamlessly with Taylor's haunting harmonies and
keys all the while soaring over epic melodic arrangements held together by Joel
Cassady's driving and prolific percussion work. Their independent spirit,
unstoppable work ethic and awe-inspiring creativity has catapulted Walk Off The Earth into new and uncharted waters with only bigger and better things on the
horizon.
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Lyrics
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
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 kind of 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 out like it never happened
And that we were nothing
And I don't even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger
And that feels so rough
You didn't have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records
And then change your number
I guess that I don't need that though
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 believing it was always something that I'd done
And 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...
But you didn't have to cut me off
Make out like it never happened
And that we were nothing
And I don't even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger
And that feels so rough
You didn't have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records
And then change your number
I guess that I don't need that though
Now you're just somebody that I used to know
Somebody I used to know
Somebody... Somebody That I used to know
Somebody... Somebody That I used to know
Somebody I used to know,
Somebody somebody
that I used to know
I used to know That
I used to know
I used to know somebodyyyyy
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Lyrics
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
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 kind of 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 out like it never happened
And that we were nothing
And I don't even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger
And that feels so rough
You didn't have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records
And then change your number
I 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 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 believing it was always something that I'd done
And 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...
But you didn't have to cut me off
Make out like it never happened
And that we were nothing
And I don't even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger
And that feels so rough
You didn't have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records
And then change your number
I guess that I don't need that though
Now you're just somebody that I used to know
somebody I used to know
Somebody somebody
That I used to know
Somebody I used to
know
Somebody... Somebody that I used to know
Somebody... Somebody that I used to know
I used to know, that I used to
know
I used to know somebodyyyyy
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VOCABULARY AND PRONUNCIATION
I used to know : /juːst/
[in past, with infinitive]
(used to)
- describing an action or situation that was done
repeatedly or existed for a period in the past, examples
-
- this road used
to be a dirt track
-
I - used to give him
lifts home
Now and then .
-
From time to time.
think of :
-
vtr (think about, have in one's mind)
told myself : As you can see they omit HERE the subject “I”.
you were
right for me:
You were the
person I was looking for
lonely : Ya vimos esta palabra en una
unidad anterior
-
- sad because one has no friends
or company: lonely old people whose
families do not care for them.
noun: a continuous or prolonged dull
pain in a part of one’s body: the
ache in her head worsened a handful of salt in the bath water is good
for aches and pains
Igual
que “even” observad su posición, la
primera vez que lo encontramos en esta canción, ENTRE EL SUJETO Y EL VERBO: “I still remember” . La segunda vez que lo vemos en
esta canción va colocado
entre el auxiliar y el verbo principal “
would still be”.
-
[attributive] specific but not explicitly named or stated.
the condition or
quality of being sad.
not make
sense
- Not to be
logical. Not to be coherent , not comprehensible. Not be intelligible, not justifiable, or not practicable: Examples
it doesn´t make sense to start saving early for higher education
the policy didn´t make economic sense
it was over
- It had already finished.
make out : informal
- 2 - North American informal engage in sexual activity: teenagers were making out on the couch Ernie was making out with Berenice
rough :
/rʌf/ Lo primero a tener en cuenta es la pronunciación de esta palabra, tiene el
mimos sonido que “enough” /ɪˈnʌf/.
- (of a person or their behaviour) not gentle; violent or boisterous: pushchairs should be capable of withstanding rough treatment.
to stoop :
bend one’s head or
body forwards and downwards
guess : ya la
vimos anteriormente en otra canción.
Estimate or conclude
(something) without sufficient information to be sure of being correct: she guessed
the child’s age at 14 or 15
screwed me
over:
Informal treat someone unfairly; cheat or swindle someone:
-
I told the company
that was trying to screw me over to get lost.
I'd done:
Past Perfect
abbreviation. Remember we used the Past Perfect when we want to express something that
happened before all the other actions in the past.
-
want to; want a: you wanna know how low I’ve
stooped?
I wanna guitar
reading into:
Attribute a meaning
or significance to (something) that it may not in fact possess: was I reading
too much into his behaviour
hung up on:
· (hung up)
informal emotionally confused or disturbed: people are hung up in all
sorts of ways
even :
Still, yet. Prestad
especial atención a la posición de “even” en la frase, entre el auxiliar “don´t”
y el verbo “need”.
stranger:
a person who does not
know, or is not known in, a particular place or community: I’m a stranger in these parts
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Gotye - Somebodies: A YouTube Orchestra
Este video es un remix que hizo el autor de la canción basándose
en las múltiples versiones realizadas por muchísimos cantantes y grupos a lo
largo de todo el mundo, algunas de ellas aparecen en esta misma entrada.
GOTYE´S Biography
Famous as : Singer,
musician. Birth Name : Wouter De Backer
Birth Date : May 21, 1980 Birth Place : Bruges, Belgium
by
AceShowbiz.com
Wouter "Wally" De
Backer, also known as Goyte, was born May 21 1980 in Bruges, Belgium but he and
his family moved to Melbourne, Australia while he was young. Later, his parents
changed his name to Walter as the English variation. Goyte's father is an
engineer but his son leans towards music since early of his childhood.
It was during his teen years that he developed his music style by learning to play drums and absorbing the theory in high school. "But songwriting and production was just something I've played with in my own time," he said. Goyte formed the band Downstares with three of his friends, one of them is Lucas Taranto who still backs him up during live shows. As a band, Downstares managed to score shows in Norhtern Easter subibs of Melbourne.
Downstares disbanded after
high school and Goyte went on as a solo. In 2001, he recorded his first track
which used a lot of samples. "I called it an 'album' (which was the style
at the time), put a picture named Boardface on the front, and it went quite
well. Some people even bought it on Compact Disc," he wrote on his
official site. A ... four-track CD became his ammo to score a recording
contract, some of them hot the target.
Melbourne street press and Australian youth radio Triple J took notice of his music. With boosted confidence, Goyte produced a couple of more four-track CDs which began getting rotation at the radio station. Around the same time, Goyte met singer-songwriter Kris Schroeder at a party and they hit it off instantly. They formed a songwriting duo called The Basics.
A distribution deal for an album came in 2003 for a collection of tracks from his three early releases. An album named "Boardface" hit the market later that year. Goyte continued recording with The Basics and the result was a second album called "Like Drawing Blood" which quickly went to Triple J in May 2006. It was voted the best album in 2006 in a poll by the radio station's listeners. With broader appeal, "Like Drawing Blood" was selling high in Australia and eventually earned Platinum for sales of over 70,000 copies.
Goyte was consequently nominated as best indie release at ARIA Awards which in Australia is equal to Grammy. "Like Drawing Blood" was also amongst nine shortlisted finalists in the 2006 Australian Music Prize. ...
His first ARIA victory was in
2007 as best male artist. The exposure led to the album re-entering ARIA albums
chart in top 50.
His success translated to
Europe a year later when "Learnalilgivinanlovin" and "Hearts a
Mess" charted in Belgium. Dutch radio stations also played his songs. In
2010, Goyte set up a recording studio in a barn at his parents' farm and
released a new single titled "Eyes Wide Open" which received
generally positive reviews.
While his album was in the baking process, Goyte made appearances in festivals in 2011. He scored a big gig, which featured also Coldplay and Kanye West among others, at the Grass music festival. A follow-up to "Eyes Wide Open" titled "Somebody I Used to Know" was released in July 2011 ahead of the album's release. It debuted at #27 on the ARIA Top 50 Singles Chart and received endorsements from Ashton Kutcher and Lily Allen on Twitter. Again, the song became his successful story in Europe.
"Making Mirrors" was released in Australia in August 2011 and entered number one on ARIA albums chart. He was nominated for seven categories at ARIA Awards that year but release date restrictions of the eligibility period ... terminated some of them. He won in three categories; Best Male Artist, Best Pop Release and Single of the Year for the song “ Somebody That I Used to Know”.
His big break Stateside came when "Somebody I Used to Know" charted in U.S. and Canada. He promoted his latest album in early 2012, appearing on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" to perform the song as well as "Eyes Wide Open" and "State of the Art". "Somebody I Used to Know" entered the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number three, while "Making Mirrors" entered the Top 10 of Billboard Hot 200.
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Gotye´sVideo
has 170 Million Views and Sells 4.5 Million!
Official video
Sometimes, breaking through is
just a matter of being different. Consider the song at the top of Billboard’s Hot 100 this week,
Gotye’s ’Somebody That I Used to Know’ (Featuring Kimbra). It’s spare,
slow build puts the focus on the vocals in the way that Adele’s ‘Rolling in the
Deep’ also cut through the radio clutter.
The song, written by Gotye, a
Belgian/Australian alternative rocker, has sold nearly 4.5 million copies and
the video (above) has been viewed on YouTube almost 170 million times. Take
that, KONY 2012!
The video is refreshingly
different as well. Unlike the standard sex and swag of contemporary pop music
videos, the concept of this (it has one!) is as if Jasper John is painting on Veruschka, if
you know your 20th century art history. It starts with the camera panning over
the singers naked and almost hairless body. It’s intimate, but not sexual. This
is a break-up song. When the camera gets to Gotye’s face, he starts
singing, but doesn’t look at us. When he sings the word, “die,” he finally
makes eye contact. Clearly this is not going to be a love fest.
A sample of a Brazilian bossa
nova guitar riff shuffles in the background as pencil lines are drawn on a
white wall. We get it. This is how relationships begin, all possibilites are
open. But then we see that triangular areas are forming and then those shapes
are getting painted in. The honeymoon is over. Things are starting to get
rigid. “When you said we could not make sense, then you said that we could
still be friends,” Gotye croons.
Then the tempo picks up and he
goes into more of a cry for the chorus, ”You didn’t have to cut me
out,” reminiscent of Peter Gabriel. As the tone shifts, the painting
which had just been confined to the wall behind him is now beginning to cover
his skin. He is inside of the relationship and can’t get out. “Now you’re just
somebody that I used to know,” he sings angrily, completely covered in paint,
looking a bit like a muted, arty version of Ace Frehley from KISS.
Then we pull back from Gotye
and see how he has become part of the painting behind him. As we pull out more
we see that his girlfriend is also part of the painting with her back towards
us. Then she turns her head and begins to sing, “Now and then I think of all the
times you screwed me over,” the New Zealand singer Kimbra begins. And
here’s the surprise that makes the song. We’re going to get to hear the other
side of the story.
But not for long. As she
approaches him, her temper rises but he remains cool, impassive. But when she
is finally shouting in his ear, he screams back with the chorus and she
retreats into background vocals and slowly backs away. When she’s back in her
original position, the paint start disappearing from her skin until she is
naked, free to go. Gotye is still trapped in the relationship, but Kimbra has
moved on.
It’s a very effective piece of
video and has certainly been responsible for some of the pickup of
the song. The other major factor, also video related, was television exposure. According to Billboard, “With the
“Glee” cast having performed its version of the song on the Fox series’ April
10 episode and Gotye and Kimbra having sung “Somebody” on NBC’s “Saturday Night
Live” on April 14, the track sold 542,000 downloads in the April 9-15 tracking
period, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The sum is the fourth-best since
SoundScan began tracking digital sales in 2003.” The three songs that have
scored higher on SoundScan? “Right Round,” by Flo Rida, ”TiK ToK,” Ke$ha,
and ”Grenade,” by Bruno Mars. All highly produced pop-rap confections.
Like Adele, Gotye and Kimbra’s
vocals sound fresh on the radio, like something we haven’t quite heard before.
It’s interesting that the sound is similar to the one Danger Mouse has come up
with for Norah Jones’ new album, “Little Broken Hearts.” So this
may be a trend, or a one-off. Too soon to tell. “I guess I’m trying to find
some balance between making music that I think is pop, but that is also quite
unique and strange and different,” Gotye tells Billboard, and then goes
on to concede, “There’s every possibility that I won’t have another song that
is an anomaly crossover hit as this has been.”
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Interview with Gotye
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