His career has started somewhere in 2001 and has released three independent studio albums - Boardface (2003), Like Drawing Blood (2007) and Making Mirrors (2011).
He is also known for songs like Hearts A Mess and Eyes Wide Open.
He also belongs to an Australian band The Basics that is currently on a hiatus until 2014 so they can dedicate to other projects outside the band.
Gotye is constantly compared to Sting, Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel due the obvious vocal similarities.
In July 2011 Gotye released a single Somebody That I Used To Know, the second of Making Mirrors released in the same year. The song features the New Zealand singer Kimbra.
Somebody That I Used To Know was written by Gotye himself and reflects "multiple past relationships". In an interview Gotye said 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."
To Rolling Stone Australia, he revealed the chorus was directly related to one ex-girlfriend, explaining "It wasn't a nasty break-up, but it was messy in the sense that we hurt each other more than we needed to because it wasn’t a clean break... We both realised we had to move on and we haven’t seen each other since."
"But you didn't have to cut me off
Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing
And I don't even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough"
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