One of the coolest things I've ever seen. GOTYE (Wally De Backer) has combined some of the best youtube covers on the internet to make a single youtube cover song of "Somebody That I Used to Know".
(youtube) Reluctant as I am to add to the mountain of interpretations of Somebody That I Used To Know seemingly taking over their own area of the internet, I couldn't resist the massive remixability that such a large, varied yet connected bundle of source material offered.
I was directly inspired here by Kutiman's Thru-You project:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tprMEs-zfQA
Wonderful stuff!
Thank you to everyone who has responded to Somebody That I Used To Know via YouTube. It's truly amazing!
All audio and video in Somebodies is from the YouTube user videos featured, each of them a cover or parody of Somebody That I Used To Know. No extra sounds were added to the mix, but I used some EQ, filtering, pitch-shifting and time-stretching to make the music.
A full list of links to the original videos is available here:
http://www.gotye.com/#blog.html
I avoided using any existing remixes of the song, or any covers from tv talent shows.
As comprehensive and extensive as I tried to be with my downloading of source videos, I know there are many clips that I missed.
I used Ableton Live for audio stretching, pitch-shifting and the initial video editing, and Adobe's After Effects to put the final video together.
Big thanks to Travis Banko for assistance with downloading source videos, and to James Bryans for After Effects tutelage.
Thankyou to Barry for being Barry, and guiding us all.
Thanks to you for listening
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residueheh, you managed to post this between me verifying the video and adding the tags
*quality
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RFlaggBeat me to it too. Not just some "this guy" but by Gotye himself. I have to wonder what is like to create something that takes off so well... Not just music like this, but how does the guy who wrote "I'll be back" or other stuff feel that it has become part of the popular lexicon?
ant*internet
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hpqpOne of the many things I love about the Internet is how it allows individuals' creativity to be brought out and together like this; art for *art's sake. Imagine all the art that would be lost if the greedy media industry fatcats had their way with the Internet!
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Asmosays...Dammit, now I have to find a way to rip this to MP3, awesome stuff.
Maurusays...>> ^hpqp:
One of the many things I love about the Internet is how it allows individuals' creativity to be brought out and together like this; art for art's sake. Imagine all the art that would be lost if the greedy media industry fatcats had their way with the Internet!
"unfortunately this video is not available in Germany because it may contain music for which GEMA has not granted the respective music rights."
CREATIVITY ON THE INTERNET FUCK YEA!
messengerNice idea, but De Backer should stick to writing music. This was a horrible edit.
criticalthudsays...considering the range of styles and feels of each musician, along with other difficult variables to work with, great work hella sick!
SWBStXsays...This is wonderfully done if you ask me. I think he does a great job of mixing in fun little spots of dialog which don't seem to take away from the flow of the track at all. And the meshing of all the different kinds of covers was done beautifully too.
legacy0100WE SHALL NEVER ESCAPE THIS SONG
jmdsays...Dont hate the song but never downloaded it or anything, but this is awesome!
dagComment hidden because you are ignoring dag.(show it anyway)
Really great
PaybackOk, you had me at "THIS IS RIDICULOUS! NOBODY CAN PLAY AN ENTIRE GUITAR BY THEMSELVES!!"
kulpims*related=http://videosift.com/video/Gotye-cover-by-East-Park-Reggae-Collective
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