A Friendly Face Will Bring You Around

Gotye “I Feel Better”

I love the directness of these lyrics — it’s nothing you’ve never heard in a pop song before, but I can’t help but feel totally moved by this guy’s genuine, unguarded expression of joy after coming out of a period of loneliness and depression. If you’re lucky, you’ll find yourself relating, and tapping along to its quasi-Motown beat. More likely, you’ll just nod and think “wow, good for you, buddy!” There’s something in the grain of his voice that really sells this sense of hard-won optimism. The sentiment doesn’t sound like it came cheap.

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