The art is about the relationship. She disappeared into the relationship, then discovered that he was hung up on someone else. As such, she pushed him into the background and found herself again. HE was the problem, and now his feelings are hurt. And while agree, ghosting him was cold, he shouldn't have got with the new girl when he was still hung up on the old one. Choices!
I took it more as he's a narcissist and at least emotionally abusive. To the point that she had to cut off contact with him by changing her number and having someone else collect her stuff so she wouldn't have to see him again. Throughout the song he tells her how little he cares about her leaving while also how hurt he is by her leaving, both emotional manipulations of making her feel worthless and making himself the victim. So after telling her how little she matters to him, she leaves and becomes someone that he used to know, and he's still hung up on her. So even though he said he wouldn't be hung up on her if she left, after she does so, he continues to paint the story of he being the one wronged. Even when she screams into his ear about how much he wronged her, he refuses to acknowledge her, only looking in her direction when she refuses to be a part of his painting in leaves. Even then, he doubles down and continues to say the same excuses.
@@connect2reality spot on. it took me a while to realize that he really comes off as a loser in this one. The 'he' of course being the protagonist of the song, rather than Gotye himself. Very brave artistically to write this song and be the villain in it. Too many people are probably not sophisticated enough to separate the artist from the character doing the narration.
Breakup songs are as old as time, but I’ve always liked how this song captures that feeling we’ve all had, you can be so close to someone and think you know them so well, and then that post breakup stranger feeling.
I love watching you guys reacting to music and performances that have had a huge impact on my life. It's like watching it again for the first time through you both ❤
The same week this song came out, I managed to escape a really toxic relationship and I would be lying if I said that I didn't play this on repeat and became obsessed with Gotye's music, he has some other absolute bangers. I'm hooked on your videos and hearing you spitball ideas of what they mean, how they came about and the background to them. I remember I loved a song by his named Hearts a mess and seeing you two pop into my feed with this, made me look it up again, thank you.
Gotye is a bush rainforest boy from my neck of tha woods in Northern Rivers Aus. He wrote this song in his parents basement as with all his beautiful music. Local artists... couldnt believe the worldwide reaction from this song !
@juliaforsyth8332 To be fair, he was born in Belgium but came to Australia when he was a baby. He's an Aussie through. I've also been to countless events and seen him live in Northern New South Wales. If you listen to him speak Julia, he is Australian. Your welcome. 😅
Welcome to the Australian music scene, guys ! Welcome ! There is sooo much Aussie music waiting for you to hear. I suggest that you begin with the world-wide GOAT, Australian John Farnham. His voice is incredible ! Always choose a LIVE video of him on stage performance. Be prepared to be gob-smacked ! You'll also draw in many Aussie followers. You young men are lovely ! From Australia.
Aussie hip hop is under appropriated as well. Hill Top Hoods have catchy tracks. I can get why Oz’s answer to RATM the Herd didn’t break out but I’m always surprised HTH didn’t.
Goddamit people! Gotten was born in Belgium, moved to Australia when he was two. He lives in a little beautiful town near Byron Bay called Mullumbimby. ( At least he did when he made that album ).
Fantastic video. Know his name but not much about him. So thought I’d looked him up. Gotye (Wouter "Wally" De Backer (born 21 May 1980 in Bruges, Belgium). But now lives in Melbourne Victoria Australia, where I live lol. He even went to the same high school as my son, but a few years older than my son. Omg lol, we lived in the same suburb in Melbourne. I’ve moved from there now but a Lovely spot with a close knit shopping centre and community. Weird, I only wanted to know where he was born with his unique unusual name. His mother nicknamed him "Gotye", based on "Gauthier", the French equivalent of his Flemish first name. His parents chose to use the English equivalent of his name, Walter, when enrolling him in school. Sorry, I got carried away reading about him lol😊
I just found your channel, and I'm LOVING the stuff you've reacting to! I love how much appreciation you have for the music. Your generation is so similar to those of us that came of age in the 80's. We're in our 50's now, and we don't take any shit from anyone! Keep up the great work guys! God bless! 🥰
I absolutely love this song!! ❤ I’m 74 years old and love all kinds of music……. My husband worked on the radio in the 60’s. I’m subscribed and can’t wait for more. You guys are amazing!
Hi there! I'm Ashley from Alabama and I'm 37 years old and a new subscriber. I enjoyed y'all's reaction alot. I always find it entertaining when this younger generation reacts to music back when I was a kid or teenager. I'm an '80s baby so of course I love a lot of '80s music. But I grew up through the '90s and the '90s was the last best decade in my opinion. Even my mother-in-law and others much older than me say as much. And there was so many awesome bands and songs and movies and shows that I still love and go back and watch or listen to today. Though I will say there was a lot of great songs in the early 2000s. But I'm a singer and a musician and I come from a family of generations of singers a musicians. And I have a wide variety of love for many different genres in music. Of course I was raised up on older classic country and '90s country music which was awesome, Southern Gospel, Pop, Hard Rock and I loved 90s R&B. If I ever want to go back to the days when you actually had to have God Given raw talent without the assistance of Auto-Tune or other technologies in order to make you sound great and I go back To my own personal experiences and the concerts I went to as a kid in teenager and I saw a lot of great country singers that were legends and they were nothing but pure talent and they didn't lip sink or use Auto-Tune. But even more amazing, The farther back you go in time to my mother's time in the 1950s and 1960s when she was a teenager, And you listen to songs like unchained Melody the live performance by the Righteous Brothers and you see the hardcore pure talent and how they were able to sing a song all in one take without any mistakes. It's just fascinating. So I encourage you to keep diving into not only my generation of music in the '80s and '90s and early 2000s when I was a kid in teenager but also dive deeper into the past and you will be truly amazed even more so. But speaking of the band Gotye, the way you pronounce it is the following fast and all together... GO--TEE--YAY. I hope that helps. In 2001 when I was 14 years old, De Backer recorded his first tracks primarily using samples. He put together a four-track CD which included the song "Out Here in the Cold". He made approximately 50 copies of this first collection, handwriting the track list and colouring in the cover sleeve in pencil. He named the project Gotye. The song, "Some body I Used To Know" was the second single from Gotye's third studio album, Making Mirrors, released by Eleven Music on 5 July 2011. 'Somebody That I Used to Know' was written and recorded by Gotye at his parents' house on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula and draws on his relationship experiences. And I just have to say that since I was old enough to remember 9/11 and how things were back then. I will say that even though we were all devastated about what happened and terrified and our hearts were going out to those that were being rescued by brave men, I have to say that to see so many people in the boat lift offer help to get the people off the island was truly amazing. I hope that y'all will react to the boat theft story of accounts of people who were rescuing the people who were trying to get away after the towers collapsed. I will say that there was a greater sense of unity in America back then and people weren't as easily offended or cold-hearted back then. A lot has changed in that time and not all for the better. Social media has been a huge downfall for a lot of people especially the youth who are exposed to so much more. But there is so much more division nowadays and people so easily offended that it truly breaks my heart. I see a lot of the division more so on TV or on the internet and in my travels sometimes. But living here in the south, I feel that we will be the last to truly turn cold. I'm still able to speak to a random stranger in a grocery store and have a lively conversation and nine times out of 10 I'm going to run into a Christian who also loves Jesus which is always nice. I love being around so many people who have good hospitality and good manners and love Jesus unashamedly. But I cannot help but notice that more and more people from the north are moving here to the south. It's like they've truly discovered that things aren't exactly as they imagined they are even better than they imagined. For example, I have several friends that has moved to Alabama from up north in other states or out west. And one of my newest friends for the past 6 months who moved from Chicago Illinois to be closer to her boyfriend she met online and fell in love with here in Alabama and soon will be marrying. She absolutely loves it down here. She said that the people are so much more nicer even on the streets than what they are up north. She likes the fact that since she too is a Christian that she can run into multiple people in a grocery store or in a shop and talk to people and hear them share about their love for their state and any history or attractions that they might point out to her or great places to eat or great church to go to. A lot of the times they have a lot of love to share about Jesus and she absolutely loves that. She said it's like a whole another world down here. A better one. There is more love going around, love for Jesus, love for your neighbor, love for those in need that she said back home she felt was truly lacking. In fact, all the stories she's been telling her family has truly touched them back home in Chicago and they are all planning to move down here as well. I'm sure there's other places that has communities that are tight nit and are always there for one another. But here in the southern states it is far more common. But based on my friends from up north account and my own personal travels I cannot help but agree that whatever unity we still have and love we have for others here in the south will spread on out to the north and others. My friend from Chicago's mother talked about the boat left and how people came together in New York City and other places. But people were different back then and I hope that we can get past a lot of this division and it wouldn't take something so drastic to unify us again. But back when I was a teenager It felt like the United States had all United and became one big huge heart that each of us shared a part of. And it seems that over the years it's been broken and separated apart so gradually at first and then overnight it seemed we were divided again. Unless you were there to live through it I'm sure you don't understand what I'm talking about but believe me, how it is now is not how it should be. It used to be better. And I hope and pray for the love and unity to come back for us all.
Their voices blend together so ridiculously well. It's indefinable, what it is about this song that hits so hard with everyone. Relatable lyrics with at least one unreliable narrator...sure, but not groundbreaking. The drama of dynamics...again, a classic. Has anyone studied it, seriously? lol but no, really, why does this song just hit?
I love your reactions to the video style and its meaning. I feel bad you will never experience the beginning of MTV when there were so many mind-blowing videos. Good luck with your channel.
Freaking loved your reaction. Your insights were awesome and your appreciation for the art of the music, the art of the video and the art of the art was amazing to see.
Enjoyed your reaction, thank you for sharing your interpretation of what you saw and heard, helped me understand the lyrics and music video in a new light.
The way I always interpreted this video is that in the relationship he stopped seeing her as a person. She faded into the background. She became part of the furniture, just another thing in his house. Something else he owned. Then she broke away from the relationship and he faded into her background. Then he felt unseen, like she was to him. And he realized what he did and suddenly he saw her as a person again. She was no longer part of the background. But it was too late.
I think that view is charitable to him. The relationship didn't work out, and that's fine. She certainly seems to have her reasons for not wanting to be in the relationship. But he needs to let it go. Even if he realizes he did wrong after the fact, he seems to be playing the victim and it is not an attractive trait.
Wow, you guys are me new favorite reaction channel, have only seen two but im subscribes and am going to see what elce you have.... keep them coming guys...
She’s out of the picture! 😂 I’ve heard this song so much, but only when I listened to the lyrics and watched the video is when I really appreciated it.
There's an entire generation of awesome music that some of today's youth know nothing about. I absolutely love watching these reaction videos! TY guys. Great job. #GenX1973
You have to listen to Malice Mizer Regret. One of the most beautiful piano tunes around and when the drummer kicks in watch out. It’s great. They got me into JRock. Gackt is amazing pianist.
Nice one fellas, Gotye has another great song with a video that'll spin you right out called "Hearts a mess" Stay cool you got a new sub from Australia 👍
Kimbra has a great voice. You should check out some of her live music. She does cool things with her voice by looping it and stuff. Try Kimbra - "Plain Gold Ring" (Live at Sing Sing Studios) or
In the early days, music videos were the wild west, and sometimes the creativity was great and sometimes it distracted from the song. Sometimes (often) the videos were like student films (even A Hard Day's Night which was a feature-length "video" before MTV). But this one was certainly effective.
Don't listen to anyone who said that you need to stop pausing ... That's a VERY good thing for REACTION videos! It's funny that some people expect otherwise!
Love how this song starts as this guy saying "this girl completely dropped me she left and never looked back she was awful" and then she comes in and says "not the whole story, you tucked and I never want to look back for a reason!"
Thank you! Great reaction. I love this song. Kimbra's voice was amazing and the stories in this were really good. Song suggestions: Change on the Rise by Avi Kaplan. Also The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordan Lightfoot, and You are My Sunshine by The Dead South. Different genres and I bet you haven't heard all of those.
And what’s really cool about this artist is he didn’t want any fame! If y’all wanna be blown away watch Nirvana’s Unplugged show!!! Another great group of artists!
I’m really excited to be at the start of your journey. I think you guys will enjoy learning about music you have never really been exposed to very much.
Kimbra is from New Zealand like me. This song is so good and even better live. Just a small critic from me and that is please dont pause so much guys but that canvas analogy was brilliant.
I just found you guys, I really loved y’all’s reactions to the Queen videos. I really think you should do Phil Collins, In the air tonight the live version. It will change your life!❤
Im keen to see you fellas explore more of our aussie music. I would suggest the next aussie reaction to be either Guy Sebastian Battle Scars OR The Veronicas, You Ruin me Thanks boys!
If you haven’t already I will suggest a Rabbit Hole “ REN “ whole new level , REN “ Hi REN “ song , mind blowing and there is so much more that you young ones can tap into that is here and now too 👏👏👏❤️🏴
I love you guys so much. Opening your world to other things. Try Jungleland or Lost in the flood by Bruce Springsteen. Keep up your channel. I love it!
Amazing reaction. First time watching you guys and I loved it so much. You made me fall in love with the song all over again. Thank you so much for sharing this! Definitely subscribing and can’t wait to see more.
Please watch Aurora live at nidarosdomen `through the eyes of a child`. She is nineteen when she performed this in a beautiful Norway church and she said that she wrote this when she was Eleven. Please correct me guys if i got that wrong :)
I loved your interpretation of the video! I always thought he felt exposed, then eventually she was exposed! But now you got me thinking?! 😂 You could be into something! 🤔
Eagerly awaiting the reaction to House of Pain’s Jump Around & Snow’s Informer. They’re almost cliche to react to but I never get sick of seeing the faces of young people when they get to hear those songs AND see the videos.
Love the videos gentlemen. I'm officially requesting you to transport yourselves to the 80s with this gem of a song: Don't You want Me by Human League. Let's go!!!!!
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When he said
"Didn't have to cut me off
Mekalakanenahhappenenahwewerenutin"
I felt that
You didn't have to cut me off
Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing.
Lol
And at the end, she's out of the picture.
Great reaction!
She erased herself from his picture
I nice to see young people really having great insight. It gives me hope for the future.
Yes that's exactly what I was thinking and what made me subscribe.
I'm a grandma, and I love you guys, it is great to see how music transcends generations. keep up enjoying ALL the music
I always saw the ending as her "painting herself out of the picture".
Yes, she’s turning away from him
Wonderful insight! Thank you.
The art is about the relationship. She disappeared into the relationship, then discovered that he was hung up on someone else. As such, she pushed him into the background and found herself again. HE was the problem, and now his feelings are hurt. And while agree, ghosting him was cold, he shouldn't have got with the new girl when he was still hung up on the old one. Choices!
I took it more as he's a narcissist and at least emotionally abusive. To the point that she had to cut off contact with him by changing her number and having someone else collect her stuff so she wouldn't have to see him again. Throughout the song he tells her how little he cares about her leaving while also how hurt he is by her leaving, both emotional manipulations of making her feel worthless and making himself the victim. So after telling her how little she matters to him, she leaves and becomes someone that he used to know, and he's still hung up on her. So even though he said he wouldn't be hung up on her if she left, after she does so, he continues to paint the story of he being the one wronged. Even when she screams into his ear about how much he wronged her, he refuses to acknowledge her, only looking in her direction when she refuses to be a part of his painting in leaves. Even then, he doubles down and continues to say the same excuses.
@@connect2reality spot on. it took me a while to realize that he really comes off as a loser in this one. The 'he' of course being the protagonist of the song, rather than Gotye himself. Very brave artistically to write this song and be the villain in it. Too many people are probably not sophisticated enough to separate the artist from the character doing the narration.
“ you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough”
The lyrics 💔
Lyrics SO good
Breakup songs are as old as time, but I’ve always liked how this song captures that feeling we’ve all had, you can be so close to someone and think you know them so well, and then that post breakup stranger feeling.
I love watching you guys reacting to music and performances that have had a huge impact on my life. It's like watching it again for the first time through you both ❤
“It is as art so it depends on you and what you perceive it to be” awesome perspective 🙏🏻
As a middle-aged white man, I like these gent's attitude, insight and general excitement.
The same week this song came out, I managed to escape a really toxic relationship and I would be lying if I said that I didn't play this on repeat and became obsessed with Gotye's music, he has some other absolute bangers. I'm hooked on your videos and hearing you spitball ideas of what they mean, how they came about and the background to them.
I remember I loved a song by his named Hearts a mess and seeing you two pop into my feed with this, made me look it up again, thank you.
The video for 'Heart's a Mess' is amazing. Love Gotye AND Kimbra.
@@vickybrogan6959 Yea Kimbra is such a strong presence in anything she does.
Not heard that thank you😊
Gotye is a bush rainforest boy from my neck of tha woods in Northern Rivers Aus. He wrote this song in his parents basement as with all his beautiful music. Local artists... couldnt believe the worldwide reaction from this song !
He's from Belgium.
@@juliaforsyth8332nope. He's Australian. Look him up.
@juliaforsyth8332 To be fair, he was born in Belgium but came to Australia when he was a baby. He's an Aussie through. I've also been to countless events and seen him live in Northern New South Wales. If you listen to him speak Julia, he is Australian. Your welcome. 😅
The town he wrote this song is called Mullumbimby NSW. Beautiful town and creative community.
unforgettable piece. great duet! ❤
Welcome to the Australian music scene, guys ! Welcome ! There is sooo much Aussie music waiting for you to hear. I suggest that you begin with the world-wide GOAT, Australian John Farnham. His voice is incredible ! Always choose a LIVE video of him on stage performance. Be prepared to be gob-smacked ! You'll also draw in many Aussie followers. You young men are lovely ! From Australia.
Aussie hip hop is under appropriated as well. Hill Top Hoods have catchy tracks. I can get why Oz’s answer to RATM the Herd didn’t break out but I’m always surprised HTH didn’t.
Gotye is from Canada ...
@@BenSanchez-n6w Wrong. He's from Australia.
@@BenSanchez-n6w He's from Belgium.
Goddamit people! Gotten was born in Belgium, moved to Australia when he was two. He lives in a little beautiful town near Byron Bay called Mullumbimby. ( At least he did when he made that album ).
Your reaction actually helped me understand this video after all these years.
Really enjoyed both your reaction to this award winning song. Thanks for reacting to this song. 👍
Fantastic video. Know his name but not much about him. So thought I’d looked him up. Gotye (Wouter "Wally" De Backer (born 21 May 1980 in Bruges, Belgium). But now lives in Melbourne Victoria Australia, where I live lol. He even went to the same high school as my son, but a few years older than my son. Omg lol, we lived in the same suburb in Melbourne. I’ve moved from there now but a Lovely spot with a close knit shopping centre and community. Weird, I only wanted to know where he was born with his unique unusual name. His mother nicknamed him "Gotye", based on "Gauthier", the French equivalent of his Flemish first name. His parents chose to use the English equivalent of his name, Walter, when enrolling him in school.
Sorry, I got carried away reading about him lol😊
Your interpretation was amazing! I subscribed, good luck with your channel!
But they pause and talk too much!😢
@@michaelasay8587 I mean it's a reaction so they're going to pause and give their input. If you want to listen to the song then just go do that :)
@@michaelasay8587 Pausing more helps avoid copyright strikes.
It’s so nice to see you you guys reacting to great old music! You give me hope!❤❤
Great reaction. They won awards with that song 🌟
I just found your channel, and I'm LOVING the stuff you've reacting to! I love how much appreciation you have for the music. Your generation is so similar to those of us that came of age in the 80's. We're in our 50's now, and we don't take any shit from anyone! Keep up the great work guys! God bless! 🥰
When he gets to the chorus he reminds me of the singer Sting.
Yes exactly he sounds really close to Sting 's voice in the chorus
I absolutely love this song!! ❤
I’m 74 years old and love all kinds of music……. My husband worked on the radio in the 60’s.
I’m subscribed and can’t wait for more. You guys are amazing!
Hi there! I'm Ashley from Alabama and I'm 37 years old and a new subscriber.
I enjoyed y'all's reaction alot. I always find it entertaining when this younger generation reacts to music back when I was a kid or teenager.
I'm an '80s baby so of course I love a lot of '80s music. But I grew up through the '90s and the '90s was the last best decade in my opinion. Even my mother-in-law and others much older than me say as much.
And there was so many awesome bands and songs and movies and shows that I still love and go back and watch or listen to today.
Though I will say there was a lot of great songs in the early 2000s. But I'm a singer and a musician and I come from a family of generations of singers a musicians. And I have a wide variety of love for many different genres in music. Of course I was raised up on older classic country and '90s country music which was awesome, Southern Gospel, Pop, Hard Rock and I loved 90s R&B.
If I ever want to go back to the days when you actually had to have God Given raw talent without the assistance of Auto-Tune or other technologies in order to make you sound great and I go back To my own personal experiences and the concerts I went to as a kid in teenager and I saw a lot of great country singers that were legends and they were nothing but pure talent and they didn't lip sink or use Auto-Tune.
But even more amazing, The farther back you go in time to my mother's time in the 1950s and 1960s when she was a teenager, And you listen to songs like unchained Melody the live performance by the Righteous Brothers and you see the hardcore pure talent and how they were able to sing a song all in one take without any mistakes. It's just fascinating. So I encourage you to keep diving into not only my generation of music in the '80s and '90s and early 2000s when I was a kid in teenager but also dive deeper into the past and you will be truly amazed even more so.
But speaking of the band Gotye, the way you pronounce it is the following fast and all together... GO--TEE--YAY.
I hope that helps.
In 2001 when I was 14 years old, De Backer recorded his first tracks primarily using samples. He put together a four-track CD which included the song "Out Here in the Cold". He made approximately 50 copies of this first collection, handwriting the track list and colouring in the cover sleeve in pencil. He named the project Gotye.
The song, "Some body I Used To Know" was the second single from Gotye's third studio album, Making Mirrors, released by Eleven Music on 5 July 2011. 'Somebody That I Used to Know' was written and recorded by Gotye at his parents' house on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula and draws on his relationship experiences.
And I just have to say that since I was old enough to remember 9/11 and how things were back then. I will say that even though we were all devastated about what happened and terrified and our hearts were going out to those that were being rescued by brave men, I have to say that to see so many people in the boat lift offer help to get the people off the island was truly amazing. I hope that y'all will react to the boat theft story of accounts of people who were rescuing the people who were trying to get away after the towers collapsed. I will say that there was a greater sense of unity in America back then and people weren't as easily offended or cold-hearted back then. A lot has changed in that time and not all for the better. Social media has been a huge downfall for a lot of people especially the youth who are exposed to so much more. But there is so much more division nowadays and people so easily offended that it truly breaks my heart.
I see a lot of the division more so on TV or on the internet and in my travels sometimes. But living here in the south, I feel that we will be the last to truly turn cold.
I'm still able to speak to a random stranger in a grocery store and have a lively conversation and nine times out of 10 I'm going to run into a Christian who also loves Jesus which is always nice. I love being around so many people who have good hospitality and good manners and love Jesus unashamedly. But I cannot help but notice that more and more people from the north are moving here to the south. It's like they've truly discovered that things aren't exactly as they imagined they are even better than they imagined.
For example, I have several friends that has moved to Alabama from up north in other states or out west. And one of my newest friends for the past 6 months who moved from Chicago Illinois to be closer to her boyfriend she met online and fell in love with here in Alabama and soon will be marrying. She absolutely loves it down here. She said that the people are so much more nicer even on the streets than what they are up north. She likes the fact that since she too is a Christian that she can run into multiple people in a grocery store or in a shop and talk to people and hear them share about their love for their state and any history or attractions that they might point out to her or great places to eat or great church to go to. A lot of the times they have a lot of love to share about Jesus and she absolutely loves that.
She said it's like a whole another world down here. A better one. There is more love going around, love for Jesus, love for your neighbor, love for those in need that she said back home she felt was truly lacking. In fact, all the stories she's been telling her family has truly touched them back home in Chicago and they are all planning to move down here as well.
I'm sure there's other places that has communities that are tight nit and are always there for one another. But here in the southern states it is far more common. But based on my friends from up north account and my own personal travels I cannot help but agree that whatever unity we still have and love we have for others here in the south will spread on out to the north and others.
My friend from Chicago's mother talked about the boat left and how people came together in New York City and other places. But people were different back then and I hope that we can get past a lot of this division and it wouldn't take something so drastic to unify us again. But back when I was a teenager It felt like the United States had all United and became one big huge heart that each of us shared a part of. And it seems that over the years it's been broken and separated apart so gradually at first and then overnight it seemed we were divided again. Unless you were there to live through it I'm sure you don't understand what I'm talking about but believe me, how it is now is not how it should be. It used to be better. And I hope and pray for the love and unity to come back for us all.
Their voices blend together so ridiculously well. It's indefinable, what it is about this song that hits so hard with everyone. Relatable lyrics with at least one unreliable narrator...sure, but not groundbreaking. The drama of dynamics...again, a classic. Has anyone studied it, seriously? lol but no, really, why does this song just hit?
I love your reactions to the video style and its meaning. I feel bad you will never experience the beginning of MTV when there were so many mind-blowing videos. Good luck with your channel.
A break up always has two sides of the story...
I’ve always loved this song and its video but you two young men made me understand the video! Thank you!
Same. I've watched it a million times but never thought about the actual meaning of the video
Freaking loved your reaction. Your insights were awesome and your appreciation for the art of the music, the art of the video and the art of the art was amazing to see.
I love how you guys just seem to appreciate good music. Just found ya’ll today. Love your enthusiasm.
You guys are great. Loving watching your videos and seeing what aspects of new-to-you stuff that speaks to you. Keep it up.
Kimba is amazing! Gotye too! Great reaction!
Enjoyed your reaction, thank you for sharing your interpretation of what you saw and heard, helped me understand the lyrics and music video in a new light.
This and Blinding Lights are the two greatest songs of the first 24 years of this century, in my humble opinion. Both are masterpieces.
The way I always interpreted this video is that in the relationship he stopped seeing her as a person. She faded into the background. She became part of the furniture, just another thing in his house. Something else he owned. Then she broke away from the relationship and he faded into her background. Then he felt unseen, like she was to him. And he realized what he did and suddenly he saw her as a person again. She was no longer part of the background. But it was too late.
I think that view is charitable to him. The relationship didn't work out, and that's fine. She certainly seems to have her reasons for not wanting to be in the relationship. But he needs to let it go. Even if he realizes he did wrong after the fact, he seems to be playing the victim and it is not an attractive trait.
@@jonathanhill4366 I didn't notice that before, but I can get behind it.
Wow, you guys are me new favorite reaction channel, have only seen two but im subscribes and am going to see what elce you have.... keep them coming guys...
The painting showed them coming together (painted), then splitting apart (she's unpainted).
I used to sing along with this on the radio... I only felt the surface pain... you guys just made me realize I missed a bunch about this video...😂❤
She’s out of the picture! 😂 I’ve heard this song so much, but only when I listened to the lyrics and watched the video is when I really appreciated it.
There's an entire generation of awesome music that some of today's youth know nothing about. I absolutely love watching these reaction videos! TY guys. Great job. #GenX1973
90s rock is going to blow their minds.
I love this song!! I have been listening to it nonstop the last few days.
It is really Nice to see how much you go into the song and seek deep in the meaning of it 😊
You have to listen to Malice Mizer Regret. One of the most beautiful piano tunes around and when the drummer kicks in watch out. It’s great. They got me into JRock. Gackt is amazing pianist.
Loved 6our reaction, young men.
Nice one fellas, Gotye has another great song with a video that'll spin you right out called "Hearts a mess" Stay cool you got a new sub from Australia 👍
Kimbra has a great voice. You should check out some of her live music. She does cool things with her voice by looping it and stuff. Try Kimbra - "Plain Gold Ring" (Live at Sing Sing Studios) or
In the early days, music videos were the wild west, and sometimes the creativity was great and sometimes it distracted from the song. Sometimes (often) the videos were like student films (even A Hard Day's Night which was a feature-length "video" before MTV). But this one was certainly effective.
I love you guys, enjoy the music journey you are on, you're in for a big surprise, I love this song 💖 old chick from the 60s 🇦🇺🦘🦘
What’s amazing is this song is done completely through sampling! This is a brilliant Musician!
And unfortunately, he didn't make any money bc of it.
Great Reaction guys.
Don't listen to anyone who said that you need to stop pausing ... That's a VERY good thing for REACTION videos! It's funny that some people expect otherwise!
IS IT?
@@kennyevans6197 😂 ur comment made me laugh!!
No, it sucks and it's too often. They aren't even actually listening to full verses or even lines before they stop it.
Gotta check out an alternative version of this, called What "Happened to the Star Wars I used to know"
Love how this song starts as this guy saying "this girl completely dropped me she left and never looked back she was awful" and then she comes in and says "not the whole story, you tucked and I never want to look back for a reason!"
Thank you! Great reaction. I love this song. Kimbra's voice was amazing and the stories in this were really good. Song suggestions: Change on the Rise by Avi Kaplan. Also The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordan Lightfoot, and You are My Sunshine by The Dead South. Different genres and I bet you haven't heard all of those.
This song won a Grammy in 2013
You guys are awesome 👌 👏 👍
Smart guys seeing the art. Subscribing.
And what’s really cool about this artist is he didn’t want any fame! If y’all wanna be blown away watch Nirvana’s Unplugged show!!! Another great group of artists!
I’m really excited to be at the start of your journey. I think you guys will enjoy learning about music you have never really been exposed to very much.
🌸 Australian artist and his name is pronounced go - tee - yay
Loved your comments. You are perceptive young men!
Great reaction. Love your commentary. Keep it up.
That’s a great song. You guys should check out the live performance. It’s outstanding.
Kimbra is from New Zealand like me. This song is so good and even better live. Just a small critic from me and that is please dont pause so much guys but that canvas analogy was brilliant.
I just found you guys, I really loved y’all’s reactions to the Queen videos. I really think you should do Phil Collins, In the air tonight the live version. It will change your life!❤
Im keen to see you fellas explore more of our aussie music.
I would suggest the next aussie reaction to be either Guy Sebastian Battle Scars OR The Veronicas, You Ruin me
Thanks boys!
Awesome review guys!
If you haven’t already I will suggest a Rabbit Hole “ REN “ whole new level , REN “ Hi REN “ song , mind blowing and there is so much more that you young ones can tap into that is here and now too 👏👏👏❤️🏴
You guys are great!❤
Jethro Tull - Locomotive Breath (first time you’ll hear a flute in rock). The Locomotive represents life.
Song of the decade
You guys are adorbz and I love your reaction and review of this beautiful song. 🤩New subscriber here!
If ya liking kimbras voice check out dreams by the cranberries ...deloros o'riordan...beautiful voice amd song❤
David Bowie was a great artist, as well- maybe Heroes or from Station to Station
Ti, Kendrick, Bob "Memories Back Then" used this beat and chorus but didnt get ir cleared so they changed it up a lil
Awesome job. 👍❤️
I love you guys so much. Opening your world to other things. Try Jungleland or Lost in the flood by Bruce Springsteen. Keep up your channel. I love it!
You say GO-TI-AY
Amazing reaction. First time watching you guys and I loved it so much. You made me fall in love with the song all over again. Thank you so much for sharing this! Definitely subscribing and can’t wait to see more.
After watching your reaction to this song I subscribed. Great job!😊
Loved your honest insightful reaction. Subbed ❤
It was fun watching you guys. I'm subbing to see more of your stuff.
Please watch Aurora live at nidarosdomen `through the eyes of a child`. She is nineteen when she performed this in a beautiful Norway church and she said that she wrote this when she was Eleven. Please correct me guys if i got that wrong :)
Loved your appreciation of this song. Please do more music reactions, you should listen to Amy Winehouse ❤
Yes 😊
New subscriber here. Loved your reaction to this mesmerizing song & video.
you may like to react to them performing this song live 😉🙂
"I sing like Sting and cant fool anyone past that"
Genius
I loved your interpretation of the video! I always thought he felt exposed, then eventually she was exposed! But now you got me thinking?! 😂
You could be into something! 🤔
Glad you enjoyed!
For another interpretation of this song, check out the dance performance by the group CDK - also on TH-cam. It's phenomenal.
Eagerly awaiting the reaction to House of Pain’s Jump Around & Snow’s Informer. They’re almost cliche to react to but I never get sick of seeing the faces of young people when they get to hear those songs AND see the videos.
I've watched lots of reaction videos to this song with yours was by far the best😊 I have just subscribed fantastic job👏
Stings doppelgänger! Looks and sound!
Rumors were Gotye is Stings love child!
Funny cuz sting was touring in area where Gotye was born…
Love the videos gentlemen. I'm officially requesting you to transport yourselves to the 80s with this gem of a song:
Don't You want Me by Human League.
Let's go!!!!!
how about OMD or AC/DC? some iconic groups - or Phil Colins. I can feel it . that is one that always gets a reaction.
"It's soft".... turn it up....😄
DJ Tiesto = In my Memory
(From an Australian/aussie🇦🇺)