Somebodies, Gotye Takes Fan-Made Covers & Makes a Mashup Video

Gotye (aka Wally De Backer) created Somebodies: A YouTube Orchestra, a crowdsourced music video that features a bunch of fan-made covers and parodies of his hit song, Somebody That I Used to Know. The full list of every YouTube video he sourced in this meta-mashup video is available at his blog.

Reluctant as I am to add to the mountain of interpretations of Somebody That I Used To Know seemingly taking over their own area of the internet, I couldn’t resist the massive remixability that such a large, varied yet connected bundle of source material offered.

Here’s the original music video:

via Nerdist

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India’s Blackout Makes Every Other Blackout Ever Look Pathetic

Passengers on 500 trains found themselves stranded.

Power outages spread throughout northern and eastern India for the second day in a row on Tuesday and now encompass a population of 600 million people. To put that in perspective, if a blackout hit all of the United States, Mexico, and Canada at the same time, it would still fall about 100 million people short of the people affected by India's electriciy failure. Then again, 300 million Indians don't have access to electricity ever, so for them, today is just another day in the life. Go home and hug your air conditioner.

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