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Gotye featuring Kimbra - Somebody That I Used to Know 2011

"Somebody That I Used to Know" is a song written, produced and performed by Australian musician and singer Gotye, featuring vocals from New Zealand singer Kimbra. The song samples Luiz Bonfá's 1967 instrumental song "Seville", with additional instrumentations of beats and a xylophone playing a melody based on "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep". The song was released in Australia and New Zealand on 5 July 2011 as the second single from Gotye's third studio album, Making Mirrors (2011). It was released in December 2011 in the UK, and 20 January 2012 in Ireland and the US.

In Australia, the song won the Triple J Hottest 100 poll at the end of 2011, as well as ARIA Music Awards for Song of the Year and Best Video, while Kimbra was voted Best Female Artist, and Gotye was named Best Male Artist and Producer of the Year. The song came ninth in the Triple J Hottest 100 of the Past 20 Years, 2013. At the 55th Annual Grammy Awards, "Somebody That I Used to Know" won two Grammys for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance and Record of the Year.

Commercially, "Somebody That I Used to Know" was a global success and became both artists' signature song. It reached the top of the charts in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and the US, as well as 25 other official charts, and reached the Top 10 in more than 30 countries. Globally, "Somebody That I Used to Know" has sold more than 20 million copies, becoming one of the best-selling digital singles of all time. Gotye paid tribute to the overwhelming number of cover versions of the song by personally creating a video remix, released in August 2012, using segments from hundreds of online covers to create a new, unique version of the track, titled "Somebodies: A YouTube Orchestra".

"Somebody That I Used to Know" received a total of 87,6% yes votes!

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TAYLOR SWIFT in the audience at the 55th annual grammy awards in los angeles, february 10, 2013.

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TS Outfit Madness: Round 1, Matchup 11

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Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 To You

1 Of The Funniest & Comedic American Actor, Comedian, & Musician 🎶 Of The 90's & 2000's To Now

&

The Dragon 🐉 Warrior🐼 & King 👑 Of Bowser's 🐢Kingdom 🏰

Born On August 28th, 1969

He is an American actor, comedian, and musician. He is known for roles in family and comedy films, in addition to his voice work in animated films. His awards include an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, and nominations for three Golden Globe Awards.

After portraying supporting roles in films including Dead Man Walking (1995), The Cable Guy (1996), Mars Attacks! (1996), and Enemy of the State (1998), Black had his breakout role in the musical film High Fidelity (2000). This led to larger roles in films like Shallow Hal (2001) and Orange County (2002), before he solidified his leading man status with his starring role in School of Rock (2003). He has since starred in King Kong (2005), The Holiday (2006), Nacho Libre (2006), Tropic Thunder (2008), Bernie (2011), Goosebumps (2016), Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017), its sequel Jumanji: The Next Level (2019), and The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018). He has also voiced Po in the Kung Fu Panda franchise (2008–present) and Bowser in The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023).

Black is the lead vocalist of the band Tenacious D, which he formed in 1994 with long-time friend Kyle Gass. They won the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance for "The Last in Line" in 2015. Since 2018, Black has operated a YouTube channel called Jablinski Games.

PLEASE WISH THIS INCREDIBLELY ICONIC TALENTED & GIFTED COMEDIC AMERICAN ACTOR IN CINEMA 🎥 IN HOLLYWOOD

A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊

YOU KNOW HIM

YOU SEEN HIS MANY MEMORABLE & ICONIC FILMS 🎥 THAT YOU ALL KNOW & LOVE

& YOU JUST CANT HELP BUT LAUGH AT HIS FUNNINESS ���� EVERY TIME HE OPENS HIS 🤣 MOUTH

THE 1 & ONLY

MR. THOMAS JACOB BLACK AKA JACK BLACK ⚫ AKA PO THE DRAGON 🐉 WARRIOR OF DREAMWORKS ANIMATION, KUNG FU PANDA 🐼 & KING BOWSER 👑🐢 OF NINTENDO'S & ILLUMINATIONS, THE SUPER MARIO BROS MOVIE🧢🔧🔴🟢 🎥

HAPPY 55TH BIRTHDAY 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 TO YOU MR . BLACK ⚫ 🐼 & HERE'S TO MANY MORE YEARS TO COME.

#JackBlack #ShallowHal #SchoolOfRock #KingKong #NachoLibre #KungFuPanda #TropicThunder #KungFuPanda2 #KungFuPanda3 #Goosebumps #JumanjiWelcomeToTheJungle #TheHouseWithAClockInItsWall #JumanjiTheNextLevel #KungFuPandaandTheDragonKnight #TheSuperMarioBrosMovie #KungFuPanda4 #BorderLands #Po #DrSheldonShelleyOberon #KingBowser

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55th Annual GRAMMY Awards at Staples Center in LA - February 10, 2013

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Throwback: Happy 55th Birthday, Dave Grohl!

Throwback: Happy 55th Birthday, Dave Grohl! @foofighters @nirvana

January is a busy and auspicious month in music history: Legendary hip-hop pioneer Grandmaster Flash celebrated his 66th birthday on January 1 Led Zeppelin‘s and Them Crooked Vultures‘ John Paul Jones celebrated his 78th birthday on January 3 French touch pioneer Thomas Bangalter, best known for his work in Stardust and the multi-Grammy Award-winning duo Daft Punk celebrated his 49th birthday…

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ON THIS DAY — February 8, 2013 — 10 years ago

The 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards - GRAMMY Charities Signings - Day 2 in Los Angeles, California

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Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones (September 14, 1973) known by his stage name Nas is a rapper, songwriter, entrepreneur, and investor. He has released twelve studio albums since 1994, with seven of them certified platinum and multi-platinum in the US.

He was born in Brooklyn to Olu Dara, a jazz and blues musician from Mississippi, and Fannie Ann, a Postal Service worker from North Carolina. He has a brother, Jabari Fret, who raps under the name Jungle and is a member of the hip-hop group Bravehearts.

His musical career began in 1991, as a featured artist on Main Source’s “Live at the Barbeque”. His debut album Illmatic received universal acclaim from both critics and the hip-hop community and is ranked as one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time. His follow-up It Was Written debuted atop the Billboard 200, and stayed there for four consecutive weeks, and made him internationally known. He signed to Def Jam Recordings. He released Distant Relatives, a collaboration album with Damian Marley, donating all royalties to charities active in Africa. His 11th studio album, Life Is Good was nominated for Best Rap Album at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards.

MTV ranked him fifth on their list of “The Greatest MCs of All Time”. The Source ranked him second on their list of the “Top 50 Lyricists of All Time”. He was ranked 4th on MTV’s “Hottest MCs in the Game” list. About.com ranked him first on their list of the “50 Greatest MCs of All Time”, and a year later, he was featured on the “10 Best Rappers of All Time” list by Billboard. He is an entrepreneur through his record label; he serves as associate publisher of Mass Appeal magazine and the co-founder of Mass Appeal Records.

His ex-fiancée Carmen Bryan gave birth to their daughter. He married R&B singer Kelis (2005-10), and they have a son. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Usher double up at NAACP Image Awards

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - It’s been quite a year for Usher. The eight-time GRAMMY award winner headlined the Apple Music Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show as the main performer.  Usher’s performance in February at the intermission of the Kansas City Chiefs-San Francisco 49ers football game came on the heels of a Las Vegas residency in which the “Nice and Slow” singer performed for a year. 

Usher comes backstage at the 55th Image Awards on March 16, 2024. Usher won two awards on the night, capturing the President's Award and Entertainer of the Year honors. Photo credit: Mark Hammond/News4usonline Usher can now add some NAACP Image Awards hardware to his trophy case. On a night celebrating Black excellence in the arts and entertainment, the “U Got It Bad” and “Burn” crooner was on the receiving end of the President’s Award at the 55th NAACP Image Awards.  Adding to the chapter, the 23-time GRAMMY nominee was also named Entertainer of the Year, the final category of the night. The award proved to be a boon for the NAACP Image Awards show. Usher walked the carpet and appeared backstage in the media room to take photos. The recognition of Usher has been a long time coming. After he was selected to be the honoree of the President’s Award, Usher, an 18-time Billboard Award winner, gave credit where was due, paying homage to his mother.  “I’m very honored to be able to receive this amazing from the depths of my soul,” Usher said. “My passion/work is what has mattered for me the moment my mother made me understand what purpose lies with the opportunity to be able to speak to the entire world.” “I recognize her more than anybody,” Usher remarked. “...I wanted to make it known far too often in our industry women do not get the recognition they truly deserve. And when we first started, it was even harder for a mother to believe in the dreams that I had, because I was unwavering…being raided without a father in our home. Being raised from a single parent it was a lot. But she was more defiant.”  Read the full article

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Gotye and how he became "Somebody That We Used To Know"

We all remember how massive Gotye’s 2011 smash hit “Somebody That I Used To Know” really was, racking up 50 million views in six months, and over two billion as of today, spending a whopping 59 weeks on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart, the tenth longest running song on the chart, as well as topping charts in 26 countries, and winning two gramophones at the 55th Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, plus countless appearances in several publications’ best releases of 2011. 

  But what happened to the singer-songwriter after this record made its waves? In case you didn’t know, he went on to release music as Gotye for three years, up until 2014 when he released a statement confirming that he would not be releasing anything under the alias, further explaining that he’s never been interested in the success, rather the creative process is what matters to him.

  Gotye, born Wouter André "Wally" De Backer actually began his music career much earlier than 2011, in fact, he didn’t start out as Gotye at all, he formed a band called “The Basics” in 2002, which was originally a duo, but ended up as a trio in 2004, when the current lineup was finalized. The Basics released a great number of songs, up until they announced their hiatus in 2010, which led to Gotye following his solo venture, and the rest is history… until 2013 rolled around, and the band resumed their activities, dropping 7 studio albums, 1 EP and 4 singles. So, even though Gotye became that somebody we used to know, Wally is still pursuing his passion, which is creating beautiful music according to what he believes in, creative process wise.

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Happy Birthday to Robert Glasper, pianist and record producer. He has been nominated for 6 Grammys, has won 3 Grammy Awards and is currently nominated for an Emmy Award. His 2012 album Black Radio won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Album at the 55th Grammy Awards. His 2014 album "Black Radio 2" won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B Performance at the 56th Grammy Awards. The song "These Walls" from Kendrick Lamar's album "To Pimp A Butterfly" won Best Rap/Sung Collaboration at the 57th Grammy Awards, on which Glasper plays keys. The soundtrack for the film "Miles Ahead" won Best Soundtrack Compilation at the 58th Grammy Awards, for which Glasper was a producer. The song "Letter To The Free", written with Common, is nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Original Song in the Ava Duvernay documentary film "13th" at the 2017 Emmys

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Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 To You

The Iconic Short But Funny Comedian & Actor In The World Of Hollywood's Cinema 🎥 Today

Born On January 27th, 1969

Oswalt was born on January 27, 1969, in Portsmouth, Virginia, the son of Carla and Larry J. Oswalt, a career United States Marine Corps officer. He was named after General George S. Patton.

He is an American stand-up comedian and actor. His acting roles include Spence Olchin in the sitcom The King of Queens (1998–2007) and narrating the sitcom The Goldbergs (2013–2023) as adult Adam F. Goldberg. After making his acting debut in the Seinfeld episode "The Couch", he has appeared in a variety of television series, such as Parks and Recreation, Community, Two and a Half Men, Drunk History, Reno 911!, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Archer, Veep, Justified, Kim Possible, Modern Family, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. He portrayed Principal Ralph Durbin in A.P. Bio (2018–2021) and Matthew the Raven in the TV series The Sandman (2022–present).

Oswalt has voiced Remy in the animated film Ratatouille (2007), Max in the animated film The Secret Life of Pets 2 (2019) where he replaced Louis C.K., Jesse (male) in the game Minecraft: Story Mode, and M.O.D.O.K in the 2021 animated series of the same name. Other film credits include Man on the Moon (1999), Zoolander (2001), Blade: Trinity (2004), All Roads Lead Home (2008), Big Fan (2009), A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas (2011), 22 Jump Street (2014), and The Circle (2017). In the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) multimedia franchise, Oswalt guest starred as the Koenigs on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2014–2020) and voiced Pip the Troll in Eternals (2021). He was also in the web series Best of the Worst in 2019. And finally in Blark & Son

As a stand-up comedian, Oswalt has appeared in six stand-up specials and won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special and a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album for the album of his Netflix special Patton Oswalt: Talking for Clapping (2016).

Please Wish This Iconic Short & Hilarious Comedian 😆 & Actor Of Hollywood A Very Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊

You Know Him

You Gotta Find Him Funny

& He Is Still Making Great Films & Voice Animations For The Whole Family 👪

The 1 & Only

MR. PATTON OSWALT 🤣

HAPPY 55TH BIRTHDAY 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 TO YOU MR.OSWALT, & HERE'S TO MANY MORE YEARS TO COME.

   #PattonOswalt #TheKingsOfQueens #TheGoldbergs #Ratatouile #TheSecretLifeOfPets

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55th Annual GRAMMY Awards at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California - February 10, 2013

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55th Annual GRAMMY Awards at Staples Center in LA - February 10, 2013