Gotye Explains His Comments About Glee Cover
Posted by Joseph Lee on 04.24.2012
He actually thought it was clever...
Gotye has explained his recent comments in which he criticized Glee's cover of his hit "Somebody That I Used To Know", according to The Hollywood Reporter.
He originally said that the show's recording style was "dry" and that it sounded "like it's playing to you from a cardboard box." He then called parts of the song "dinky and wrong."
He gave a private performance for Los Angeles station 98.7 at Hollywood's Sayers Club on Monday. He told radio jock Kennedy and a crowd of less than 100 (which included Rumer Willis, American Idol winner Kris Allen and Audrina Patridge) that "the nature of using reverb and space in a recording can change your perception of how a sound appeals to you."
About the Glee cover, he said he was referring to "this xylophone hook in my song -- it's kind of dinky not just in the cover version but the original song. [Somehow] that becomes the Glee cover I hated and Darren Criss is an asshole."
He then praised the cover and added: "I thought it was really clever to transpose the song to two guys ... It was a great idea."
At the concert, he decided not to play the song for the audience, which included fans, radio station contest winners and those in the industry.
