Outkast - Hey Ya! (Lyrics)

Artist/Group: Outkast Album: Speakerboxxx/The Love Below Released: 2003 Label: LaFace/Arista Watch the Official Video of this song https://www.youtube.com/watchv=PWgvGjAhvIw -------------------------------------------------- "Hey Ya!" is a song performed by the American hip-hop group Outkast and André 3000. Along with "The Way You Move", recorded by Outkast's other member Big Boi, "Hey Ya!" was released by LaFace Records as one of the two lead singles from the duo's fifth album, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. The track became a commercial success, reaching number one in the United States, Australia, Canada, Norway, and Sweden. André 3000 wrote "Hey Ya!" in 2000, but began work on recording it in December 2002 at Stankonia Studios in Atlanta, Georgia. He used an acoustic guitar for accompaniment, inspired by bands such as the Ramones, the Buzzcocks, the Hives, and the Smiths. Having already been handed the song by his creator, 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 the synthesizer. Months later, André 3000 worked with Pete Novak at the Larrabee Sound Studios in Los Angeles. They experimented with various sound effects, including singing through a vocoder, and did 30 to 40 takes for each line. "Hey Ya!" is a song in 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 (against a G note in the melody implying E minor). The song moves at a tempo of 158 beats per minute, and André's vocal range spans more than an octave and a half, from B3 to G5. The song opens with three pi