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rfmcdonaldBelgian-Australian singer Gotye's song "Somebody That I Used to Know" is a massive international hit, a musically and lyrically innovative song about the messy aftermath of a relationship sung as a duet that has charted internationally and--at last count--has an eye-catching video that has 180.9 million views on YouTube.
After listening to it the first time, and then again, and then on later occasions, I began to think that I'd heard something like this song before. But where?
The brilliant 1982 Human League song "Don't You Want Me" is a song I'd blogged about seven years ago. "Don't You Want Me" created a mini-genre of pop songs, sad angry duets sung by two partners who find themselves messily at odds, each with their own version of what happened and neither willing to concede. Gotye's song is great, but I suspect it would have been impossible without this Human League classic, 30 years old.
After listening to it the first time, and then again, and then on later occasions, I began to think that I'd heard something like this song before. But where?
The brilliant 1982 Human League song "Don't You Want Me" is a song I'd blogged about seven years ago. "Don't You Want Me" created a mini-genre of pop songs, sad angry duets sung by two partners who find themselves messily at odds, each with their own version of what happened and neither willing to concede. Gotye's song is great, but I suspect it would have been impossible without this Human League classic, 30 years old.
