"Somebody That I Used To Know"est une chanson du chanteur et compositeur  Australo-belge Gotye; issu de son troisième album studio Making mirors  (n°1 en australie); en duo avec la chanteuse Néo-Zélandaise Kimbra. 

La chanson acclamée par la critique musicale,fût un succès surprenant en Australie, elle a pointée au numéro un dans le pays pendant sept semaines. La chanson a reçu un beau succès en Europe notamment en Flandre (la partie néerlandophone de la Belgique) et au Pays Bas où il a culminé à la première place. Dans le pays d'origine de Kimbra, la Nouvelle-Zélande , la chanson a également atteint le numéro un.

La voix de Gotye me rappel fortement celle de Peter Gabriel pour mon plus grand plaisir. Le style musical y est aussi très apparenté à mon avis. C'est mon coup de coeur du jour et un artiste à suivre.

Now and then I think of when we were together
Like when you said you felt so happy you could die
Told myself that you were right for me
But felt so lonely in your company
But that was love and it's an ache I still remember

You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness
Like resignation to the end
Always the end
So when we found that we could not make sense
Well you said that we would still be friends
But I'll admit that I was glad that it was over

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
You didn't have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records
And then change your number
I guess that I don't need that though
Now you're just somebody that I used to know

Now and then I think of all the times you screwed me over
But had me believing it was always something that I'd done
And I don't wanna live that way
Reading into every word you say
You said that you could let it go
And I wouldn't catch you hung up on somebody that you used to know...

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
You didn't have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records
And then change your number
I guess that I don't need that though
Now you're just somebody that I used to know

I used to know
That I used to know

Somebody... 

Hallucinante mise en abîme de notre ami Astérix par le formidable philosophe français Michel Serres. Le moins que l'on puisse dire est qu'après l'attaque sur les Schtroumpfs par Antoine Bueno dans son livre à succès " Le petit livre Bleu", la BD franco-belge n'est pas épargnée en ce nouveau millénaire...

Chacun se fera son avis. Si dans le fond, l'analyse n'est pas incorrecte, reste à savoir si le comportement de nos chères têtes blondes est fondamentalement influencé par ces lectures.

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