He told the audience, before he performed 'Thanks For Your Time', that the song is about being placed on hold in a queue (and it's obvious anyway).
He's poking fun at those inconsiderate companies that place you in a queue for ages, and Wally tastefully uses sarcasm to poke fun at them (eg. "But your call is valuable, it's very valuable").
Ofcourse this is the cliched thing those stupid robot-ladies tell you while you're on hold, and ofcourse the managers and staff of the companies don't actually think your call is valuable, so thus the sarcasm.
Wally also mimics something you'd expect a call centre employee to say, ie. "Don’t ask me, I just work here man". It's funny because it's their job to answer your questions, and yet they say "Don’t ask me, I just work here man".
This is one of the reason's Gotye is so awesome!! He sings about being placed in a queue and takes a subtle dig at those evil companies, hahah woot!
People out there, see him live it's worth it! Oh and while on topic about Gotye, does anyone know the meaning of the name? Why does Wally call himself Gotye?? I feel like an idiot for not knowing lol...
Is that really all the meaning there is to it? When I listened to the song, I took it as being symbolic for a person going through life, and asking for help or advice and everybody pretending to know what they're doing and feigning sincerity, but in the end you have the honest one's who know just as little about handling life and "just work here, man". Reading into it too much? Or did I just crack open something?
Is that really all the meaning there is to it? When I listened to the song, I took it as being symbolic for a person going through life, and asking for help or advice and everybody pretending to know what they're doing and feigning sincerity, but in the end you have the honest one's who know just as little about handling life and "just work here, man". Reading into it too much? Or did I just crack open something?
I saw Wally De Backer live, he was AMAZING!!
He told the audience, before he performed 'Thanks For Your Time', that the song is about being placed on hold in a queue (and it's obvious anyway).
He's poking fun at those inconsiderate companies that place you in a queue for ages, and Wally tastefully uses sarcasm to poke fun at them (eg. "But your call is valuable, it's very valuable").
Ofcourse this is the cliched thing those stupid robot-ladies tell you while you're on hold, and ofcourse the managers and staff of the companies don't actually think your call is valuable, so thus the sarcasm.
Wally also mimics something you'd expect a call centre employee to say, ie. "Don’t ask me, I just work here man". It's funny because it's their job to answer your questions, and yet they say "Don’t ask me, I just work here man".
This is one of the reason's Gotye is so awesome!! He sings about being placed in a queue and takes a subtle dig at those evil companies, hahah woot!
People out there, see him live it's worth it! Oh and while on topic about Gotye, does anyone know the meaning of the name? Why does Wally call himself Gotye?? I feel like an idiot for not knowing lol...
Is that really all the meaning there is to it? When I listened to the song, I took it as being symbolic for a person going through life, and asking for help or advice and everybody pretending to know what they're doing and feigning sincerity, but in the end you have the honest one's who know just as little about handling life and "just work here, man". Reading into it too much? Or did I just crack open something?
Is that really all the meaning there is to it? When I listened to the song, I took it as being symbolic for a person going through life, and asking for help or advice and everybody pretending to know what they're doing and feigning sincerity, but in the end you have the honest one's who know just as little about handling life and "just work here, man". Reading into it too much? Or did I just crack open something?