The Star Wars That I Used To Know!

Ah, pop culture. It feeds on itself, doesn’t it? Pop song du jour “Somebody That I Used To Know” by Gotye (pronounced Go-ti-yay), a heartfelt number about breaking up, has been blitzing the airwaves for the last couple of months. People love sad songs, I guess.

Now, a bunch of Star Wars fans have turned it into something equally impassioned. Only this time it’s an attack on George Lucas and what he did to the much-beloved geek property. Visually, the video is an exact copy of the original, except for a fat, bearded Lucas-alike dude replacing the sexy girl from Gotye’s version. The lyrics are pretty amusing too, and they make some pretty valid points about the Star Wars we used to know…

 

And here’s the original video with Gotye. During the chorus, he kinda sounds like Sting, doesn’t he?…