Gotye - Hearts A Mess (Official Music Video) 

I love how timeless Gotye's music is. Criminally underrated artist!

I knew this song even before his hit song. He says he do not want to sell his music, and if anyone wants to use his work for a movie is free to do so. The most humane artist that ever existed, his music is from the heart for the heart and not for the money.

This was actually released in late 2006. That’s now 17 years. My word.

Anybody still listen to this in 2024 or is it just me?

What I don't understand is that Gotye hasn't made a major career worldwide, except for one song everyone knows. This guy is a great musician, totally unique.

Come back Gotye, please!

15 Years had passed and it still a great song

I personally think this a better song than Somebody I used to know. Under rated track

"it makes no sense But I'm desperate to connect" I deeply relate to that line

Don’t worry guys he just forgot his RU-vid password

I accidentally clicked on this video and was like WTF. Never heard of this guy or the song. Long story short, that mis-click just changed my life. Holy shit. What a revelation. I'm absolutely obsessed.....replayed like five times!!! Amazing. A true artist. I just love him.

Pick apart The pieces of your heart And let me peer inside Let me in Where only your thoughts have been Let me occupy your mind As you do mine You have lost Too much love To fear, doubt and distrust Its not enough You just threw away the key To your heart You don't get burned 'Cause nothing gets through It makes it easier Easier on you But that much more difficult for me To make you see Love ain't fair So there you are My love Your heart's a mess You won't admit to it It makes no sense But I'm desperate to connect And you, you can't live like this Your heart's a mess You won't admit to it It makes no sense But I'm desperate to connect And you, you can't live like this Your heart's a mess You won't admit to it It makes no sense But I'm desperate to connect And you can't live like this Love ain't safe You won't get hurt if you stay chaste So you can wait But I don't wanna waste my love

The way he says “connectttttttt” gives me goosebumps

Seeing Gotye as a tall, depressed bean is all I ever wanted

just discovered this masterpiece. Love Gotye's style

Something oddly seductive about this song and yet something so nostalgic and sad about this video

I kind of feel bad that I am listening to this song now for the first time.

Anyone 2024 ?

I love the song, but let's talk about the video: Gotye starts out resting on what is very clearly Earth's moon. Then he drops down onto what looks like a devastated Earth. Its skies are darkened to night. The only things we see on the surface of the planet are a few destroyed buildings. He is followed by a mechanical spider weaving a dark shadow. As he walks, he holds a megaphone up to his lips, calling out a message. He walks through a formation of soldiers forcibly marching a creature with a tank of water on its back, a tear in its eye and moving on trembling crutches. The last of the clean water. It leaves the soldiers to join Gotye. As the trio approach a collapsed home, three little spirits precede it and jump into the beak of a seemingly dead crane that is laden down with a broken fishing shack, a fishing line, and a stork's baby bundle. It has a Radioactive sign on its side, and its eyes have been bound shut. When the little spirits jump into its beak, it rises and joins the group. They continue to traverse the wasteland, the spider walking backwards as it watches the ever-growing shadow that it weaves, cover the land. They pass through the burned remains of a forest, where the eyes of what used to live there watch them. A logger with an axe in its hand and laden down with a cargo of felled trees, joins them. "You just threw away the key." Ahead, the only seemingly living things are the still-polluting factories and an oil refinery, still belching out their poisons long after life has left the planet; in the foreground a crane with a wrecking ball mindlessly demolishes what's left of the apartment buildings; it's made for destruction and is driven to destroy until everything is gone. As the group passes it, it looks up from its mission, sees them, looks over the buildings it has been wrecking, and leaves its work to join them. As they leave that area, the dirty glare of the factory lights and the oil refinery's gas flare gleam sickenly in the distance. Above, to the left, the light of a tiny craft shoots up and out to escape through a thinner patch of sky where sunlight struggles to shine through weakly. It is not night after all; the sun has been blotted out by the thick cloud of pollution. They stop by the sea's edge. A lonely sea monster with the head of a fish rows in on the last remaining piece of sea ice, which is rapidly melting. The sea monster joins the exodus as the spider gently pulls a blanket of shadow across the planet - it is almost completely covered now. They pass through a cemetery where the Big Five (Exxon, Chevron, Shell, BP and TotalEnergies) finally grieve and wring their hands while surrounded by the gravestones of the protesters that were killed for raising the alarm. A tortured spirit rises from the ground, his mouth bound and silenced. He has a flower on his head and twisted around his body is the spirit of the thing he died trying to protect: life. With a backward glance back at the tycoons, he too joins the parade. They reach the place Gotye first landed when he jumped down from the moon, and the spider finishes pulling the funeral shroud over the Earth. The members of the little parade climb each other up past the reach of gravity, and float into space. Farewell to the home we destroyed and lost. Is it a kind of suicide? The song is sad but the _video_ is so full of grief.

An underrated, anonymous, forgotten masterpiece!.. Gotye is a genius!

Me n the boys going to the grocery store at 11 at night to get soda and carrots

Gotye really hits us hard with his voice when he adds so much emotion to the "But I'm desperate to connect!" part, we can literally feel the pure dread within that lyric.

Let me tell you something, it gets better when you listen to it as you grow up too.

I clicked this in 2020 after thinking I hadn't heard any other Gotye songs other than Somebody I Used to Know, but I got this really weird feeling, and i know I've seen this before. Freaked me out, but I'm glad I found this masterpiece again.

Something that really gets to me is the "I'm desperate to connect" line. You can find so many people to be with in the world, but it's remarkable how hard it is to find someone you can connect with.

It feels like this song sums up the human condition of losing a piece of your heart over lost love until you can lose no more… thanks Gotye for this timeless masterpiece!!

Can't believe it's 15 years old. Has a timeless sound

"But I'm desperate to connect" I felt that.

One day he'll come back to us

with gotye, you don't have to separate the art from the artist

Unpopular opinion: this song is better than somebody that I used to know.

When your internet / Wi-Fi is.down " I'm desperate to CONNEEECCCCTTTTT............ "

So this is where my sleep paralysis demon go’s to chill after traumatizing me

You searched this in 2024. Welcome. We're still here and enjoying.

It's actually insane that this song is 15 years old as of now. It still holds up, sounding fresh and unique

I really wish some of Gotye's other stuff had been played on the radio along with (or instead of) "Somebody I Used to Know". Because that one had never really struck me, I hadn't bothered to look him up until a few days ago, when I heard "Eyes Wide Open". Now that I've checked him out, I feel that he's terribly underrated.

Guys this was 12 years ago and its still a golden piece today

This is one of my favorite songs. Period.

Who's still here?

LaydiNite 4 years ago (edited) My interpretation is that it's about a failing relationship. The lyrics seem to suggest this. Each of the creatures that follow him are the negative emotions piling on as he's stuck in a relationship that can't be saved. The creature on crutches is hurt, the one with the bundle on the stick is feeling like you don't belong (don't have a home), the crying creature in the woods is sadness, the wrecking ball is anger, the snake on the ice is isolation, the skeleton is grief, and all of them are followed by the spider that is taking away the light on the planet they inhabit. Also, note that Gotye's creature is wearing headphones and carrying a megaphone. I take this to represent that the people involved are shouting, but not listening to what's being said. In the end, all the emotions pile on, until the only solution is to let go entirely, shown by the scattering into space. I really appreciated this description pf the video and I wanted to see it at the top of the comments section again.

Gotye: YOUR HEARTS A MESS me: I KNOW STOP YELLING AT ME

Still one of the most healing tracks I’ve ever heard

My heart's a mess right now and I so wish I would grow endlessly long, skinny legs and go trampling across a foreign planet. The perfect way to help me compartmentalize while still existing. Thanks Gotye. RIP mom.

It’s so weird but like I’m addicted to the way they walk

The fact that this was made 13 years ago and sounds like something made this year is absolutely mind-blowing

This song lives in my head rent free. It makes my heart ache and my brain light up with so many emotions and thoughts. When gotye said he's an ARTist, he was NOT joking. Forever in love with this whole record. Thanks Gotye, for inspiring a generation of artists. love u. rant over. bye.

2024 anyone with me ?

3:54 that part always got me. It's like that final plea, that burst of emotion and energy to try to make it work, when you already know it's over, and you're empty and exhausted, but have to give it that one last push to say you did all you can

My interpretation is that it's about a failing relationship. The lyrics seem to suggest this. Each of the creatures that follow him are the negative emotions piling on as he's stuck in a relationship that can't be saved. The creature on crutches is hurt, the one with the bundle on the stick is feeling like you don't belong (don't have a home), the crying creature in the woods is sadness, the wrecking ball is anger, the snake on the ice is isolation, the skeleton is grief, and all of them are followed by the spider that is taking away the light on the planet they inhabit. Also, note that Gotye's creature is wearing headphones and carrying a megaphone. I take this to represent that the people involved are shouting, but not listening to what's being said. In the end, all the emotions pile on, until the only solution is to let go entirely, shown by the scattering into space.

I know the world is obsessed with one song, but you put on one of the best shows I’ve ever seen live and I’ve been to concerts of all genres and sizes. Your work is so original and creative …thank you. 🙏🏻

This is without a doubt one of the most beautiful songs ever sung.

"...But I'm desperate to CONNEEEEEECT..." WOW

Hear me out. A Tim Burton film with Gotye songs.

I truly believe he had a relationship that ended, before he could figure out a way to fix it.

Just leaving this comment here so that my kids know their dad had great taste in music.

2007: no 2010: no wait 2015: WAIT! 2020: YES!

Anyone in 2024?

Youre telling me this song is 15 years old and its first now that my Spotify recommends me this song!

Repeat after me, GOTYE IS NOT A ONE HIT WONDER.

If Gotye were here, he'd let us download his music on RU-vid without buying Premium because that's the kind of musician he is.

This song is fucking good, who is here listening to this song in April 2024?

He’ll be back any time now…

Don't worry you are not the only one watching this master piece in 2022

It pisses me off to know that a song I love so much has existed for 7 years without my knowing. Just makes me wonder what else I would love is out there that I haven't discovered yet

All those creatures have suffered pain in the dark but then continue to move towards the light with love.

This song never gets old. ❤

Why am I listen to the song for the first time in the end of 2019

Idk why but there’s something so nostalgic about how dark and unusual this song is, yet something so oddly familiar, it’s as if we’ve experienced something similar to this in a dream, or at least I have, i mean, probably

This song will always be my favorite of Gotye's. Absolutely beautiful!

在以前還只有電視MTV的日子, 有天無意間聽到, 配上詭異的MV拍攝, 這旋律整個讓我中毒, 一直喜歡到現在☺

He finds someone to love so he takes a dive into her heart and finds her and everything negative, lonely, depression, useless, fear, unhappy, and sad, he wants to make them seem small and her bigger than she really is, he tries as hard as he can but no matter how hard he tries she just gets smaller and smaller and everything negative surrounds her, he eventually gives up in the end and finds a way out of her heart and leaves because he doesn't want to waste his love on someone who won't let him in and makes him depressed that he cant do anything to make her happy like she once was.

Who's listening in their own private cave under their mansion.

"Don't Cry Because It's Over; Smile Because It Happened"

"somebody i used to know" is great but this is my favorite song on the album

The more i want to share this song with my friends, the more it makes e want to keep it to myself as my song

Pink Floyd meets Gorillaz, and Tim Burton.

Man he needs to comeback…. I’m sure without a label he would be heavenly supported!!!

This was my first Gotye song- blew me away!

Is anyone else obsessed with this guy's songs?????

13 years🥺 if you’re watching this in 2020 (edit: or other year) you’re a legend

Anyone Here In 2024?

Love the pink Floydesque march! Great video - Great job

It’s been 13 years. Still slaps, speaks to my soul. Slaps too hard.

I really don’t understand how something like this could possibly have a single dislike

There's something so amazing about the simplicity of the rhythm in gotye's songs. it's captivating. Also thats pyro from tf2

Now gotye is somebody we used to know

It's a fucking masterpiece deep lyrics and a good melody and a perfect voice

thnx Gotye for zero commercials...

8 years later, and this is still the main song I go to after a heartbreak... sigh.. so timeless

Don't know where i've been 15 years ago. But i'm here now ... And my hearts a mess.

half of me: wow this is really cool. the other half: what the actual FUCK.

He isn't in it for the fame or money. Purely for the love of the craft! A true artist.

This is the only song where a choose to watch the video and not a lyric video

This song describes me falling down that rabbit hole not letting anyone in yet desperate to connect . Love the song and video ❤

Why do I feel like I'm watching THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS. LOVE THIS SONG AND GROUP .

This song could be used as an allegory for modern times. With everyone so connected we've never been farther apart. Some of us just want some company to ride out the chaos with.

I’m going to start walking to my college classes like this

Not gonna lie this song slaps. It aged like fine wine.

I served as a recon in the DMZ in South Korea. I was in the DMZ at night. This song came from a loudspeaker heading to North Korea. This memory lingers strongly.

People think this is weird and strange, they say it like it's a bad thing. This song feels so good, so painfully good like if you were to have a piece of glass stuck in your heart, but then this song cuts up a part removing the glass from your body.