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As the final notes of Gotye's well known hit faded into silence, the Melbourne based musician Wally De Backer walked onto the Wired 2012 stage, mildly embarrassed that his worldwide hit was being played to the audience in "supremely mono-sounding audio... but then I'm picky given the amount of time I spend working on these tracks."
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De Backer carried out a simple yet powerful demonstration of the reach of his song Somebody that I used to Know: "Who was already familiar with that song and video? [The entire room raise their hand] Then I don't have to give much of a context for that video then. Maybe you've been assaulted by a fourteen-year-old throwing a dance remix of the song at you. I know that I certainly have."

When the Gotye track reached the vastness of the internet, the musician had a "fascinating experience"; he was able to watch online as a song he had written and recorded mutated in untold ways -- meme images that played upon the lyrics of the song, countless versions of the song that were recorded in people's bedrooms, hundreds of videos. Even the mutations gained their own subesquent mutations -- one Canadian group's cover has gained over 200 million views from all over the world.

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