I watched a bunch of Kimbra videos because of you, bt, and I'm quite taken with her. She likes to live multitrack with herself. That's cool.
Mayor ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Buffista Music 4: Needs More Cowbell!
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
I watched a bunch of Kimbra videos because of you, bt, and I'm quite taken with her. She likes to live multitrack with herself. That's cool.
I am eminently comfortable taking credit for your Kimbra-related viewing habits.
I particularly enjoyed watching her work the multitrack in this video: [link] She sings the way Brian May plays guitar.
I would suggest it's not just the singing so much as other things through which Gotye makes people think of Peter Gabriel and Sting. The songwriting: the unsympathetic first-person narrator (Big Time, Moon Over Bourbon Street, Every Breath You Take). And the video: it has so much in common with Sledgehammer that I think I'll show them one after the other in my music video lecture next semester.
It's a GREAT video.
Edited because I did a post-and-run and got some song titles wrong.
Sean -- You've heard tUnE-yArDs, yes?
Weirdly, this cover version also sounds a bit like Sting/Peter Gabriel to me: [link]
Wow, that was not long at all. RIP indeed. And what a great clip to link, sumi. Thanks.
Better quality version of that same clip: [link]
Short clip of Levon in 1959! [link]