A few weeks ago some friends I were trawling YouTube in the hopes that someone had made a "banger" remix of Gotye's 'Somebody That I Used To Know'; something in the vein of David Guetta maybe, or a Black Eyed Peas chorus. Something plastic and synthy and Eurovision-worthy. Two things we quickly learned:
1. There are MILLIONS of 'Somebody That I Used To Know' remixes on YouTube, in nearly as many genres as you can think of.
2. The song constantly holds up.
So that's how you know, right? How you know when a song has reached critical mass? When the entire world is remixing your song,
for the hell of it.
In any case, here's the icing on the cake: the PS22 (Public School 22) children's choir, made up of kids from an elementary school in Graniteville, New York, who came to the world's attention via their choral rendition of pop songs posted on YouTube, have now covered the song.
The terrifying, overacting kids change Kimbra's line "All the times you screwed me over" to the more PC "All the times you did me dirty", (wait...maybe that's worse?) but otherwise it's a serviceable version. Damn.
And for the record -- BANGER:
This time next year: Grammy Awards. Read our in-depth analysis of 'Somebody That I Used To Know'
here on TheVine.
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