<P> "Somebody That I Used to Know" is an art pop song and has a length of four minutes and five seconds long . Gotye uses a sample of Brazilian jazz guitarist Luiz Bonfá's 1967 instrumental song "Seville", with additional instrumentations of beats and a xylophone . It was written and produced by Gotye himself, while in his parents' barn on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria . Gotye commented that he wrote the song "in quite a linear way", explaining that "I wrote the first verse, the second verse, and I'd got to the end of the first chorus and for the first time ever I thought,' There's no interesting way to add to this guy's story' . It felt weak ." </P> <P> The track was recorded between January and May 2011 with Gotye struggling to find a suitable female vocalist, as a "' high profile' female vocalist" cancelled the collaboration at the last minute, and Kimbra "lucked out as the replacement". He tested his girlfriend, Tash Parker, but "somehow their happiness meant that it didn't work out" so he followed the recommendation of the song's mixer and used Kimbra's vocals . Martin Davies from Click Music considered the song "instantly captivating", and named Kimbra's voice "clean and sugar - soaked", further commenting that it bears an "uncanny resemblance" to singer Katy Perry . </P> <P> Gotye stated that the song was "definitely drawn from various experiences I've had in relationships breaking up, and in the parts of the more reflective parts of the song, in the aftermath and the memory of those different relationships and what they were and how they broke up and what's going on in everyone's minds . Yeah, so it's an amalgam of different feelings but not completely made up as such". In an interview with Rolling Stone (Australia), he described the song as "a curated reflection of multiple past relationships". </P> <P> The song received generally positive reviews, winning the Grammy for Record of the Year . Take 40 Australia elaborated on the audience's reception at the July 2011 Splendour in the Grass festival, "Gotye's latest song featuring Kimbra' Somebody That I Used To Know' had become somewhat of an unofficial anthem for the festival...every car was cranking it over their speakers all day, every day...and the question on everyone's lips was whether or not Kimbra would join him on the track . Fortunately, dreams came true...he smashed out an incredible set climaxing with a version of the song with Kimbra on co-lead vocals that people couldn't stop talking about all weekend long". Allmusic's Jon O'Brien felt the track was an "unexpected chart - topper...(it) is an oddball break - up song whose stuttering rhythms, reggae hooks, and hushed vocals sound like The Police as remixed by the XX". </P>

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