What Happened To That Song That I Used To Know?
Sometimes there's a song that is a song for the moment. A song that has that right mix of quirky music and infectious lyrics that invades your skull and stays there like that old roommate you had when you were in college, the one that never paid rent and occupied your couch watching SportsCenter and Jerry Springer for a whole semester, while you were trying to write that paper on Herman Melville 's Billy Budd for that weird professor who thought that every truly American story about "men and fish" had gay undertones. Sometimes there's a song. And I'm talking about Gotye 's " Somebody That I Used To Know " here, that gets played on the radio roughly three hundred times an hour, and somehow you can't shut it off when it's playing no matter how much you think you want to. Instead, you find yourself singing along at the top of your lungs in the car, making up the lyrics that you can't understand as if you know exactly what they...