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Gotye mashes up viral covers of ‘Somebody That I Used to Know’
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Gotye mashes up viral covers of ‘Somebody That I Used to Know’
Year
2025
Doechii’s song ‘Anxiety’, having its viral moment in 2025, samples Gotye’s multi-platinum hit ‘Somebody That I Used to Know’ (2011), which was itself a mosaic of samples.
When the internet showed its love for his song in a wave of covers and parodies, Gotye was intrigued, and mashed about 300 of them together in a video piece called ‘Somebodies: A YouTube Orchestra’.
In 2013, he shared the video and his composition methods with Australian high-school students tuning into a session of NFSA Connects.
His joyous play in the ‘Somebody I Used to Know’ viral hall of mirrors is a key moment in Australian musical history, which the NSFA is dedicated to collecting and preserving.
Watch the full clip of 'Somebodies: A YouTube Orchestra'.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.