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The article says that the name 'Gotye' is "a French translation of his name"... Here's the thing. I am French and to the best of my knowledge "gotye" doesn't mean *anything* in French. I even double checked in a dictionary to make sure it wasn't some obscure word. It's not in there. I can however see a few possibilities:

  1. it could be old French, or derived from old French;
  2. it could be some obscure Canadian French term, thus not appearing in a French dictionary (ie. from France);
  3. it could be a (voluntarily?) misspelled word -- for instance, if you add an accent on the last 'e' (Gotyé) it would change the sound and then it would be pronounced the same way as 'Gauthier' which is a somewhat popular French last name -- however, I fail to see how that would be a translation of 'DeBacker'... heck, I don't even see what 'DeBacker' itself is supposed to mean???

Whichever of the above it is (or if it's something else I missed) it obviously needs more explaining because it is not obviously clear. So if whoever wrote that could provide more information / sources / details / etc. it would really be nice, cause as is, it doesn't really make much sense, I'm afraid :-o Desdenova 03:57, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Origins of "Gotye"

I have cleared all of this up in the article. --Jixor 03:19, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, but is DeBacker a fictional name or is it Walter's actual real surname? Shaybear♥

I think that's his real surname. Watto the jazzman 04:09, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Which genre does he belong to? I wrote the article for Learnalilgivinanlovin (the single) and I said it was Indie Pop, but seing as "pop" stands for popular and "Indie" means independent or alternative, I realised this doesn't really make much sense. Watto the jazzman 04:09, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

i know wally and his surname is De Backer. his single 'learnalilgivinanlovin' was somewhat popular (94 in jjj's hottest 100). though i think 'pop' sometimes also refers to the catchy sound of 'pop music'. eg http://www.popboomerang.com is record label that deals with kind of underground pop music. and wally/gotye did make his two albums as an 'independent' artist. though i think he likes it that people struggle to pigeonhole his music in a particular genre. (220.253.29.167 19:03, 28 February 2007 (UTC))

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The album is great, and deserves SOME mention, rather than just being entirely skipped, and forgotten. 58.178.23.106 (talk) 05:15, 10 January 2008 (UTC) person