O indie-pop realmente está com tudo. Depois da indiscutível "Florence + The Machine" agora parece ser a hora e a vez do cantor belga Walter De Backerde, conhecido pelo seu alterego/projeto "
Gotye".
Seu último trabalho havia sido "Like Drawing Blood", muito bem recebido pela crítica especializada e, portanto, criador de uma expectativa inevitável. Em agosto de 2011, Gotye lançou "Making Mirrors", o terceiro álbum da carreira. Com o single "
Somebody That I Used To Know", o cara vem ultrapassando a fronteira do público indie e conquistando ouvidos do mundo inteiro. Aos poucos e degrau por degrau, tem galgado posições interessantes e promissoras no Hot 100 da Billboard, o
chart mais disputado e influente do mundo musical.
Dono de uma voz inteligente, se podemos dizer assim, Gotye parece massagear nossos ouvidos ao cantar "Somebody That I Used To Know" com a agradabilíssima parceria de Kimbra. Confira a música abaixo, mas não se deixe enganar pela primeira audição.
Uma música simples e um videoclipe simples são muito mais poderosos do que você pode imaginar.
Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra)
Gotye
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
No, 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 and then I think of all the times you screwed me over
But had me believing 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
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
No, 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, now you're just somebody that I used to know
Somebody, I used to know
Somebody, now you're just somebody that I used to know
I used to know
That I used to know
I used to know
Somebody