YMMV / Gotye

• Awesome Music: Damn near all of it. Props must be given to "Somebodies", though, making his own remix of his most popular song and all non-famous cover artists.
• Common Knowledge: Many people have taken notice to the fact that the xylophone line in "Somebody That I Used To Know," sounds a-lot like the chord progression in "Baa Baa Black Sheep." On the surface this is true, but when you get right down to it there's only a one-note difference in the melodies, and it sounds completely different when put in context with the chord progressions of each song.
• Covered Up: A lot of YouTube covers credit Walk Off the Earth as the original singers of "Somebody That I Used to Know".
• Memetic Mutation:
  • But you didn't have to cuuuuut me ooooooooff!
    • Gameplay Vs. Lore/[X] Lore Vs. [Y] Lore^ExplanationA submeme spawned from comparing a game's gameplay against its lore, or different media lores, to emphasize how mundane the former is while the latter is balls-to-the-wall insane, all to "Somebody That I Used To Know". For example.
  • But you didn't have to cuuuuut it ooooooooooff! *gets sliced* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...AAAAAAAAAH!!!!
  • No, you didn't have to stoooooop so looooow!
  • Gotye's relative lack of activity after "Somebody That I Used To Know" became memetic in and of itself, with some joking about him dropping off the face of the Earth after one song and that he became the titular "somebody" that people used to know.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The video for "Don't Worry, We'll Be Watching You".
    • The title for "Don't Worry, We'll Be Watching You".
  • The video for "State of the Art" becomes this around the first chorus. Suffice to say, you'll never look at an early 80s Lowrey Cotillion the same way again.
• Sampled Up: As is to be expected when a lot of your samples are from obscure and usually very niche records. For example, not many people seem to know that "Somebody That I Used to Know" sampled the guitar riff from Luiz Bonfa's "Seville" or that the hook for "State of the Art" is a horn break from a recording of a Taiwanese folk song. The fact his particular style of sampling doesn't sound like sampling can also make it harder for the untrained ear to even recognize that the music is made of samples at all rather than being played by live musicians.
• Signature Song: "Somebody That I Used To Know" is easily this, given it's his only hit in America.
• Sweet Dreams Fuel: His entire oeuvre could be called this, but special mention goes out to the ethereal, gentle "Giving Me A Chance"...unless you're listening to the album version, in which case it concludes with the Last Note Nightmare example on the main page.

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