I Feel Better (Gotye song)

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"I Feel Better"
Single by Gotye
from the album Making Mirrors
Released25 October 2011
Recorded2010
GenreBlue-eyed soul, R&B
Length3:18
LabelEleven: A Music Company
Songwriter(s)Wally De Backer
Producer(s)Wally De Backer
Gotye singles chronology
"Somebody That I Used to Know"
(2011)
"I Feel Better"
(2011)
"Easy Way Out"
(2012)

"I Feel Better" is a song by the Belgian-Australian musician Gotye from his third studio album Making Mirrors. It was released as a digital download on 25 October 2011 in Australia. The song was written/produced by Gotye. The song has charted in Flanders. The trumpet melody which is used in the intro and the bridge was sampled from "Brazil" by Edmundo Ros.[1]

Track listing[edit]

Digital download
No.TitleLength
1."I Feel Better"3:18

Personnel[edit]

  • Wally De Backer – lead & backing vocals, drums, percussion, piano, dulcimer, horn samples
  • Lucas Taranto – bass guitar
  • Luke Hodgson – bass guitar

Chart performance[edit]

Chart (2012) Peak
position
Belgium (Ultratip Bubbling Under Flanders)[2] 2

Release history[edit]

Region Date Label Format
Australia 25 October 2011[3] Eleven: A Music Company Digital download

In popular culture[edit]

The chorus of "I Feel Better" featured in an episode of The Simpsons titled "Whiskey Business".[4][5]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Gotye's 'I Feel Better' – Discover the Sample Source". WhoSampled.com. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
  2. ^ "Gotye – I Feel Better" (in Dutch). Ultratip.
  3. ^ "I Feel Better – Single by Gotye". 1 January 2011. Retrieved 17 May 2022 – via Apple Music.
  4. ^ "Soundtrack – Whiskey Business", IMDb, retrieved 30 June 2013
  5. ^ "Whiskey Business". The Simpsons. Season 24. Episode 19. Fox.