Information AboutHey Ya! |
"Hey Ya!" is a Hip Hop Song written and produced by André 3000 for his 2003 album ''The Love Below'', part of OutKast 's Double Album '' Speakerboxxx/The Love Below ''. The song takes influence from Funk and Rock Music . A Music Video was produced featuring André 3000 as eight different versions of himself, and it mimicked The Beatles in their 1964 performance on '' The Ed Sullivan Show ''. The song received a very positive reaction from music critics, and it won a Grammy Award for Best Urban/Alternative Performance at the 46th Grammy Awards . Along with " The Way You Move ", recorded by OutKast's other member Big Boi , "Hey Ya!" was released by LaFace Records in September 2003 as one of the album's two Lead Single s (see 2003 In Music ). It became a commercial success, reaching the top five of most of the charts it entered, and topping the ARIA Singles Chart , '' Billboard '' Hot 100 , and United World Chart , among others. The song popularized the phrase "shake it like a Polaroid picture" in popular culture, and the Polaroid Corporation used the song to revitalize the public's perception of its products. WRITING PROCESS André 3000 first began work on "Hey Ya!" in December 2002 at Stankonia Studios in ''. December 9 2004 . Retrieved June 3 2007 . Already having visualized most of the song, he recorded the Introduction , the first Verse , and the Hook . André began recording the vocals during this time, doing several dozen takes. He returned to work on the song several evenings later, with Session Musician Kevin Kendricks performing the Bassline on a Synthesizer . Several months later, André 3000 worked with Pete Novak at the Larrabee Sound Studios in Los Angeles, California . André Improvised the lyrics based on a Screenplay that he had written. They experimented with various Sound Effect s, including singing through a Vocoder , and did 30 to 40 takes for each line. MUSIC AND LYRICS "Hey Ya!" is a song in the key of G Major . Each cadential six- Measure Phrase is constructed using a change of Meter on the fourth measure and uses a I–IV–V–VI Chord Progression . G major and C Major chords are played for one and two 4/4 measures respectively. André 3000 then uses a Deceptive Cadence after a 2/4 measure of the Dominant D Major chord, leading into two 4/4 measures of an E Major chord. The song moves at 160 Beats Per Minute , and André's Vocal Range spans over an octave and a half, from B3 to G5.Sheet music for "Hey Ya!" Hal Leonard Corporation . 2003. The song opens with three . November 7 , 2003 . Retrieved June 3 , 2007 . The song then leads into the Chorus , which consists of the line "Hey ya!" repeated eight times, accompanied by a synthesizer performing the bassline. During the second verse, the persona gets ''. September 18 , 2005 . Retrieved from '' Guardian Unlimited '' June 4 , 2007 . He then calls to "the ladies", whose response is overdubbed from vocals by Rabeka Tuinei, who was an assistant to the Audio Engineer . The song's . February 18 , 2004 . Retrieved June 3 , 2007 . The breakdown also Namecheck s singer Beyoncé Knowles and actress Lucy Liu . The song closes by repeating the chorus '' Ad Libitum '' and gradually fading out. CRITICAL RECEPTION "Hey Ya!" received very positive reviews from music critics. ''''. October 2005. Retrieved June 7 , 2007 . The song's unusual arrangement drew comparisons to artists from a variety of genres. ''. Retrieved June 4 , 2007 . SALES AND IMPACT "Hey Ya!" was successful in . Retrieved June 3 , 2007 . "Hey Ya!" also topped the Canadian Singles Chart . The song performed well in Europe , though not as strong as in the U.S. In the United Kingdom , it debuted at number six on the UK Singles Chart and peaked at number three after twelve weeks, remaining on the chart for a total of twenty-one weeks. "Hey Ya!" topped the Norwegian singles chart for seven weeks, and it reached the top in Sweden for the first week of 2004. It performed well across the continent, reaching the top ten in Austria , Finland , France , Germany , Ireland , and Switzerland . "Hey Ya!" debuted at number seventeen on . Retrieved June 3 , 2007 . It was also successful in New Zealand , reaching number two and staying on the RIANZ Singles Chart for twenty-three weeks. The lyric "shake it like a Polaroid picture", along with the song's commercial success, helped to revitalize the Polaroid Corporation. Because current Polaroid film is sealed behind a clear plastic window, casually waving the picture has no effect on the film's development. Vigorously shaking the film may actually distort the image by causing the film to separate prematurely and creating blobs in the final image. "Polaroid warns buyers not to 'shake it'" . ''. 2004. Retrieved from '' The Seattle Times '' June 14 , 2007 . MUSIC VIDEO The song's music video, directed by , tries to calm a crowd of screaming girls on a show being broadcast live in black-and-white. The band performs while the girls in the audience scream loudly; one girl is carried off by security after rushing the stage, and another faints. A family is shown dancing to the broadcast at home. When André 3000 instructs to "shake it like a Polaroid picture", some of the girls begin taking pictures and shaking them. Ice Cold 3000 dances with one of the girls on stage, and the video closes with several friends of the band watching and discussing the performance. The music video was filmed in two days in August 2003 on a Sound Stage at Universal Studios in Los Angeles, California. The cast consisted of over one hundred girls. Each of André 3000's parts was shot several times from different angles, and he performed the song 23 times during the course of filming. Because releasing "Hey Ya!" as a single was a last minute decision, André did not have time to Choreograph the parts, and all of the dancing was improvised. Ice Cold 3000's sequences were the first filmed, resulting in the character's energetic performance, and Johnny Vulture's were the last, so André, exhausted from the previous takes, sat on a stool for those sequences. The music video proved to be a success. The video debuted on ''. July 18 , 2006 . Retrieved June 21 , 2007 . COVER VERSIONS The rock influences of "Hey Ya!" have allowed many other artists to release Cover Version s of the song. One of the first covers of the song was by indie rock band Razorlight , who performed the song with the London Community Gospel Choir for a BBC Radio 1 session, later releasing their version as a B-side for their single " Vice ". In a similar vein, Will Young , also on the station, recorded a slower piano version of the song, which became the B-side for his single " Friday's Child ". Young's version also appears on the compilation album '' Radio 1's Live Lounge ''. Richard Cheese And Lounge Against The Machine recorded a Lounge version of the song for their 2004 album '' I'd Like A Virgin ''. Country band The BossHoss , Latin Pop singer JD Natasha , Punk Rock band Pennywise , and Rock And Roll band The Supersuckers have also recorded cover versions. In 2006, Mat Weddle, frontman of the unsigned ''. May 17 , 2007 . Retrieved June 4 , 2007 . FORMATS AND TRACK LISTINGS ;American 7" vinyl single # "Hey Ya!" (radio edit) # "Hey Ya!" (instrumental) ;Australian CD single # "Hey Ya!" # "Ghetto Musick" (radio edit) # "Ghetto Musick" ( Benny Benassi remix) ;German CD maxi single # "Hey Ya!" # "Ghetto Musick" (radio edit) # "Ghetto Musick" (Benny Benassi remix) # "Hey Ya!" (video) ;UK 12" vinyl single # "Hey Ya!" (radio edit) # "Ghetto Musick" # "My Favourite Things" ;UK CD single # "Hey Ya!" (radio edit) # "Ghetto Musick" (radio edit) ;UK CD maxi single # "Hey Ya!" (radio edit) # "Ghetto Musick" (radio edit) # "My Favourite Things" # "Hey Ya!" (video) CREDITS AND PERSONNEL
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