Recommending... // Gotye

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RECOMMENDING

Gotye's new album, "Making Mirrors". If you haven't heard it yet, the album is wonderful. My all time favorite track is definitely "Eyes Wide Open", but I also like "Somebody That I Used To Know" and "In Your Light", among others. His other album, "Like Drawing Blood", from 2006, is also very good; especially "Learnalilgivinanlovin".

PERSONALLY...

I had a hard time adapting to Gotye. Actually, I didn't like him at first. At all.

You have probably heard the song "Somebody That I Used To Know" before. I know it's been playing nonstop on the radio, whenever I've turned it on; and that every girl in my year knows all the lyrics, and will gladly join in loudly screeching it in the locker room with you. So yeah; it's everywhere.

If you, for reasons that are beyond me, haven't heard of Gotye; well, give him a try. I didn't like "Somebody That I Used To Know" at first; the "jumpy" guitar and slightly absurd xylophone playing in the background ensured that the song didn't rub me exactly the right way. Eventually, I had to give in; I learned to like it. And Gotye. Soon I found myself purchasing Gotye's entire album.

 

GOTYE IS GREAT BECAUSE...

He says things like this.

"And so, having found success in Australia, Oz music industry parlance dictates that I should now be poised to "conquer the world".

But that all sounds a bit tediously colonial, doesn't it. [...] It also sounds a bit cruel. I mean, who wants to be attacked, enslaved and put to work in a rubber mill by a relatively unknown Australian alt-pop musician?

No-one, that's right. And their grandmother."

Gotye

Gotye's real name is Wally De Backer (born Wouter, "Walter" in English). The name "Gotye" comes from "Gaultier", which is the French equivalent of Wouter. He has wide lips and Jesus-like hair. His voice sounds amazing when he hits the high notes. Especially when he sings "Eyes Wide Open". Some have gone to the extent of comparing his voice to Sting (I'm not one of these people though; I have a hard time spotting the likeness in sound). He is Belgian-Australian. He has made three albums; "Boardface", "Like Drawing Blood" ("I called this collection of songs "Like Drawing Blood", because of an injury I suffered while licking an envelope" says Gotye) and "Making Mirrors". His songs feature weird music videos with clay monsters. The artwork for "Making Mirrors" is a photoshopped version of an old painting made by his father, which Gotye found amongst old bills and newspapers in his parents' barn. And his bio on his internet page is self-written, and absolutely hilarious (please check it out).

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I Am Roseberry.

The First Day Of Spring.

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Jamie Cullum If I Ruled The World

This last Friday was a perfect "first day of spring". Originally, our class had to be at school at 10 o'clock. But when I (and some of the others as well, I might add) showed up, our class was cancelled. So me and two of my good friends from class, M and C, spent two hours lounging about in the sun, drinking coffee, and talking about girls, boys and summertime bathing. After only a couple hours of school, my class headed out to the football field at Aurehøj, drank some beer, and while the guys played football, the girls (myself included) sat on a bench and watched, while cheering and laughing as if we were semi-hysterical teenagers in a bad american rom-com (only to be interrupted by extremely high-pitched screaming when the ball flew our way). The rest of my day was equally wonderful, and spent with friends all around me, until the day was way over, and continuing into the next.

Ah. Don't you love days like that?

My lovely friend took some photos of us girls, as we sat and watched football. I just saw them tonight, and they made me smile so much, that I had to share them. I love you girls. (And you look very pretty, I might add).

I F    I    R U L E D    T H E    W O R L D ,    E V E R Y    D A Y    W O U L D    B E    T H E   
F I R S T    D A Y    O F    S P R I N G

Photography Marie-Louise Pierini Lüders

The lovely photographer herself.

Thanks for listening,

I Am Roseberry.

The Heart Is A Muscle That Beats...

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T H E    H E A R T    I S    A    M U S C L E    T H A T    B E A T S . . .

Gotye Eyes Wide Open

A N D    I T    M A K E S    F O R    W O N D E R F U L    S W E E T S    ♥

S O    K E E P    Y O U R    H E A R T S    W I D E    O P E N

Or just eat them... I apparently do.

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I Am Roseberry.

I hate it when I forget to turn my swag off at night, and I wake up the next day, covered in bitches.

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The title doesn't really have anything to do with anything. Just like this post. Sorry for being gone so long. Here's a heart to make it better.

♥

A picture from the day after the Swag Party at Aurehøj. In memory of a nice morning (or actually it was afternoon, for all regular people out there) spent recovering with a late breakfast, good coffee, no make-up and great conversation.

A picture from this autumn, when the leaves had just started turning violently red, but the sun still flooded my yard with warmth.

A quirky song I like a lot. It reminds me of "Wuthering Heights", of Catherine and Heathcliff, of love and lust and anger and pettiness and storms and a whole lot of other things.

Kate Bush Wuthering Heights

Pictures from a great adventure in Val T, with the best of girls. I miss dancing all night, drinking Kronenbourg and Jägerbombs, and singing along to "Levels". Oh, it was the best.

Avicii Levels

And then a whole bunch of other things that have no relation to anything whatsoever. Apart from being either yummie, funny, true, beautiful or just nice.

Ah, Sex and the City. And the 90's. Aah.

Property of Emily Salomon.

Don't remember ever having seen the bottom picture. I love the effect it creates.

A very true quote from a dear friend of mine.

True.

An incredibly tumblr-esque picture taken by a friend of mine.

Jealous.

Why are kids growing up so fast all of a sudden?

Impossible not to look twice.

Want.

Ooooohhh, you're just so cute, I want to eat you up!

Thanks for listening,

I Am Roseberry.