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Yeah, I got one, but it wasn’t intended as a smileathon record.<\/p>\n
In the early summer of 2011, a Belgian-Australian singer-songwriter called Gotye released an unremarkable composition called Somebody That I Used to Know.<\/p>\n
The song took itself far too seriously, but it was adequately performed by Gotye, and exceedingly amusingly accompanied by an above-average backing singer called Kimbra.<\/p>\n
I heard it a few times throughout that summer, but quickly went off the self-involved lyrics.<\/p>\n
And then one day a cover version\/remix dropped into my inbox.<\/p>\n
The first time I pressed the play button I knew I had the antidote to the tediously average original.<\/p>\n
Right from the massively overblown drum’n’bass riffs ripping thgrough the over-edited post-production, I couldn’t stop giggling like a child.<\/p>\n
As unmemorable and self-obsessed as the original is, this version is the ultimate parody.<\/p>\n
The wheels start coming off at 41s but hold out for the giggles at 1m25s and the wonderfully amusing drop at 1m52s.<\/p>\n