Five Things Like 'Glee' Gotye Must Erase From The 'Somebody That I Used To Know' Wikipedia Page
I like to call this move the Jonathan Franzen: Gotye, who managed to get a rock song onto the radio in 2012, has rolled his eyes at the Glee version of "Somebody That I Used To Know," probably while covered in angular paint swatches and looking really nervous about something. 
He's like this because his manager just booked him on "Ellen."
Which is fine, because the Glee version--like every Glee arrangement--sounds terrible. But he appears to have waited until after the Glee version helped make him and his song famous, which is going to make it difficult to get it expunged from his Wikipedia page. Here are all five things he should probably gripe about to a newspaper, now that he can afford to buy the M.C. Hammer mansion:
1. "The 'Glee' cast's cover of 'Somebody That I Used to Know' sold 152,000 downloads in its first week and debuted on 18 April 2012 on the Digital Songs chart at No. 10 and the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 26." It's going to be tough to make people forget this happened, since the cast members of Glee have covered every No. 1 song of the last five years by now, but I believe he can do it. Or at least he can Jonathan Franzen it, which involves getting more press than you would have without protesting while still attempting to retain your indie cred.
2. The multiple Savage Garden references. Apparently Gotye has leapfrogged Ben Lee and Silverchair and become, universally, the biggest Australian star since... the members of Savage Garden. "Somebody That I Used To Know" was the longest-running chart-topper in Australia since "Truly Madly Deeply," and the first Australian No. 1 in America since "I Knew I Loved You." And now I've named every song your girlfriend loved when she was 13.
3. "The song has since been featured in the TV series 90210, Gossip Girl, and The Voice." I don't begrudge musicians who allow their music to appear in TV shows and commercials, but if he was bothered by the whole Glee thing those 90210 and Gossip Girl appearances can't have done him good.
In case you didn't see either one, I've received word that the song was playing while terrible people who looked like sexy children did terrible things to each other and made that face people on TV think is super hot.
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