Hey Ya!
"Hey Ya!" is a song released by OutKast in 2003 from their Grammy award winning double-album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. It is actually by André 3000, who is one half of the OutKast duo, and is from his The Love Below half of the album. It was also one of the first songs to become a hit on Apple's iTunes Music Store, replacing "Stacy's Mom" by Fountains of Wayne at #1 and staying there for months. The song went to number one the Billboard Hot 100 in Canada and Australia and has charted in 28 countries around the world. It is famed for having one of the most unusual time signatures for a pop song (11/4). It was voted as the best single of the year in The Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll. OutKast's "The Way You Move" (by Big Boi, the other half of the OutKast duo) knocked "Hey Ya!" off the top of the charts in the US, the first time a band has had one song replace another of its songs since The Beatles did it in 1964 at the height of Beatlemania, 40 years previously. The videos for both songs were often aired segued together. The song's music video features a performance, styled as one from the black and white era of television (although the video itself is in color), in which André 3000 plays several different versions of himself as different members of a band, all wearing green and white outfits. He also plays several different instruments and vocals. The video is based on the Beatles landmark appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show on February 9, 1964, but sets the action in London. An enthusiastic crowd of girls can hardly be restrained as he sings. Most live performances of the song featured similar antics, parodying the British Invasion with the dance movements and costuming.
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