Why This Song Sucks: Gotye's "Somebody That I Used To Know," featuring Kimbra

Not only he's a crybaby, he is also Sting's son!  https://www.facebook.com/gotye.is.stings.son

I wish them nothing but the worse.

I think this may have been the largest pile of hipster shit I've ever seen.

HES A SUPER VAGINA, BUT YOUR A TRY HARD FAGGOT WHO FAILS AT TRYING TO BE OVER THE TOP FUNNY.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

you got the reactants and products mixed up dude, but that's the least of your problems. 

I found this comment because I came across the video of the little kids singing this song and thought, awww, isn't that just the cutest...I wonder what the original song sounds like? Cut to two minutes later - me watching the original music video and BLEEDING FROM THE EARS. Are people kidding with this shit? Have we lost all sense of musical integrity, tone, melody...etc? HOW is this song so popular? Anyway, after I recovered, I immediately googled "somebody I used to know sucks", and you were the first hit. Thank you for this blog, if for no other reason than to allow me to know I am not alone in my utter hatred of this song.

This is genius and exactly what i was looking for

Bro???? Er, you are a Geographically and Culturally challenged Wanker.Lazy Crocodile Dundee references from a Smartarse who doesn't do enough research."Why this Critic sucks".

well the song really is bad. The lyrics and melody are very banal.  This just goes to show the crap the industry pushes. The formula vagina coefficient  was symbolic of the what ever it takes to  push trends formulas and marketing to the masses by the bean counters in the tanking music industry,   The song is ultra predictable. the background music does nothing. The only reason why this is popular is how he opens up on the second part of the song with some Sting mannerisms. Kids who ,missed the 80's can feel like they have something to. Men without hats was a million times better

shea is a vaginas name

writer is obviously a moron looking for some attention.  do the society a favor, go kill yourself.  the world will be better without you around.  you are a waste of sperm.  now you a somebody the world  never knew, woot!

Looks like the song had hit more than a nerve for this author. But I'm sorry, my heart doesn't bleed for you.

music snobbery ... 2 pages of why a song sucks.  but oh so witty ... try applying those writing skills to actually creating something.   

Is this not considered bullying?? If you dont like it, change the channel. Why hate on someone trying to make money as a musician...ridonk!

I taking a dump as I read this article.

You got paid to write this shit?

I'm all for you hating Gotye; you're entitled to your opinion after all. ... but if you're going to write for LA Weekly, please at least say something worth reading.

You're like the unfunny, econo-bastard sibling of Hyperboleandahalf. Please stop writing. It hurts us.

Shea Serrano used to write equally crap articles for the Houston version of this blog

I would suggest finding something more constructive to do Shea

How did my 12-year old cousin manage to hack into the LA Weekly computers and cobble together this shyte?

Stupid article of stupid American....

I'm sorry, lol. I was just looking at the "female" diagram and forgot what I was reading.

Goyte is from Belgium - lives in AustraliaLimbra is from New Zealand - just so you know Author

My vagina is more intelligent  than Shea Serrano's critique. 

This article is junk. I've just lost all respect for the LA Weekly.

Trollll. xD

Shea Serrano your article sucks..because you have no concept of music and for that matter writing as well.  

By pointing out that the made up equation spells out Gotye Super Vagine (are you 12?) is one of those 'explain your own joke' scenarios, which make the joke unfunny. Unfortunately in this case, the 'joke' was shit anyway. Congratulations on reaching new levels of terrible.

Why This Article Sucks: there are not enough hours in existence to explain. I wish the writer would stop thinking forever, and by the way LA Weekly... this article really sucks.

I have heard so many songs that suck in the last few years,,, I've heard sh*t like - Ke$ha, beiber, the last 7years of the Black Eyed Peas, MDNA/Nickie Manaj/MIA superbowl crap get called "good music" This song is not bad. It's so good it's getting overplayed and losing it's shine cause the 'media' squeezes every ounce of life it can from stuff that genuinely does not suck cause it's so rare these days. Doesn't the author know anything about the music business?

I hate this song, but I hate this article even more.  Was it just an excuse to say vagina a lot?

Shea Serrano: Somebody that I used to read... But not anymore. The "science" is increasingly iffy, analysis is always inane, and besides - I'd rather hear a thousand more songs like this on the radio than one more POS by the likes of One Direction, Katy Perry, Chris Brown, et al.

I always imagine it is Ozzy singing this song at the chorus part.

Shea Serrano... You are proof of why this publication is digging itself deeper into an already enormous trench as the days roll by. Keep the intelligence coming, you are embarrassing no one except for yourself. 

What are you talking about? Do you even know what you are saying? Let's all agree that you should stop writing and just not talk. Thank You.

What the heck is this really about?  Atmopsherics? Scientific analysis in LA Weekly?  What a waste of time and space!

Or 10 years ago.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

It's funny to see someone put so much time and effort into hating something for no real good reason.

And this Shea person gets paid for crap like this?

What a waste.

You lost me at vagina. Wtf is this dudebro article?!

Thank god for this article, I hate this song sooooo much.  It's overplayed and is not that good of a song whatsoever.  If anything it is kind of pretentious, especially after seeing that music video.

Each subsequent article I read in the LA Weekly clearly reveals how you are all pretentious hipster haters.  Believe me this song has obviously been played to death, but it's still an extremely well-written song.  I don't know if you guys were going for a tongue-in-cheek thing here and I'm too dense to pick it up, but it sounds more like you're perpetuating the stereotype of snobby LA hipsters only digging random under-the-radar shit until the collective masses pick up on it.

I suppose this would be a great article to me if this treatment was given to a song I knew about and hated enough to read companion articles about