Gotye is many things to many people, and, at once, many things to just one person (himself for instance), although, at times, he may be a few things to a few people. At once. Sometimes, he may mean something to some person or people (and we all know you can fool some people, some of the time) but it must be said: his aim is to fool himself, all of the time. Which he does. Sometimes . …Italics