Two tracks from that album, "Learnalilgivinanlovin" and "Heart's A Mess", were ranked 94 and 8 respectively in Triple J's Hottest 1. The album was also nominated for a J Award that year. Gotye's second album Like Drawing Blood was featured by Triple J in May 2006 and was voted Number 1 in the listeners poll of the Best Album of 2006. His first single, "Learnalilgivinanlovin" from Like Drawing Blood, was released in August, 2006.
He is also one-third of Melbourne indie-pop band The Basics.Īs Gotye, his public exposure, like many alternative Australian musical acts, comes largely from youth radio station Triple J. When that band dissolved Wally started focusing on his solo project, cut'n'paste tunes that eventually would come under the moniker of 'Gotye'. Born in Belgium but based in the city of Melbourne, Australia, Gotye has released two studio albums independently and one remix album featuring remixes of tracks from his first two albums.īorn in Belgium and then raised in Australia, Walter (as he is more commonly called) has been making music since his teens, first in moody local rock band Downstares, a fixture at underage shows in the North-East suburbs of Melbourne for a few years. Wouter DeBacker (born, Bruges), more commonly known by the stage name Gotye (pronounced or "gor-tee-yeah), is an ARIA Award-winning singer-songwriter. This is one of the reason's Gotye is so awesome!! He sings about being placed in a queue and takes a subtle dig at those evil companies, hahah woot! It's funny because it's their job to answer your questions, and yet they say "Don’t ask me, I just work here man". Wally also mimics something you'd expect a call centre employee to say, ie. Ofcourse this is the cliched thing those stupid robot-ladies tell you while you're on hold, and ofcourse the managers and staff of the companies don't actually think your call is valuable, so thus the sarcasm.
"But your call is valuable, it's very valuable"). He's poking fun at those inconsiderate companies that place you in a queue for ages, and Wally tastefully uses sarcasm to poke fun at them (eg.
He told the audience, before he performed 'Thanks For Your Time', that the song is about being placed on hold in a queue (and it's obvious anyway).
General CommentI saw Wally De Backer live, he was AMAZING!! We can handle it, we're well prepared to handle itīut rest assured, we'll take your comments on board
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