NEVILS –Tyler Farrin (NHS, ’16) recently reaffirmed to his friends, family members, and classmates that he has no plans to remove or cover his neck tattoo of Belgian-Australian musician Gotye.
Swearing that the portrait “doesn’t even mean anything” to him anymore and that “it just looks cool, is all,” Farrin claims that he sees no need to do away with the tattoo.
“Was I, at one point, for just a few months back in high school, a huge fan of Gotye? Yes. Did I get the tattoo after Kate broke up with me? Yes,” explained Farrin. “And am I totally over both Kate and Gotye? Yes. But it’s not like I’m just gonna get rid of it like it never mattered… you know?”
Further inspection revealed that the artist’s picture is bordered by the quote, “You just get used to living in the fear…,” from Gotye’s relatively unpopular tune “Eyes Wide Open.” Farrin swears that the lyric has little to do with his former Gotye fandom and is “just badass in general”.
“I’ll be at the beach just minding my own business, and when people see it they’re like, ‘Now you’re just somebody that I used to knooowww!’ And it’s not even from the same song – it’s like, why say something if you’re not even a real Gotye fan. God, I hate it,” said Farrin.
Farrin has refuted claims that the ink is inhibitory to his future employment prospects, and maintains that it might even be a professional opportunity some day.
“What if one day I’m at a job interview, and the guy turns out to be a huge Got-head, like I used to be but am not anymore?” asked Farrin. “Say he mentions that he also saw him at the CMJ Music Festival in 2011, the show where Wally had a little cough. I can flash the tat and be like, ‘No way! I was there with my girlfriend at the time. Kate. She was everything to me until she cut my heart out. You are perfect but you’re empty, and it gets so lonely in my mind, cause your image in my memory’s, the only shred of you that’s left behind… you know? But yeah, Gotye totally brought the house down.’”
At press time, Farrin was considering a “pretty sweet” Imagine Dragons album cover for new ink on his shoulder blade. Even though he says Gotye “still sucks”, he would look forward to a collaboration between the two artists, “because it would be cool, musically or whatever.”
