― David Allen, Friday, 19 September 2003 06:52 (twenty years ago) link
― JasonD (JasonD), Friday, 19 September 2003 06:53 (twenty years ago) link
― JasonD (JasonD), Friday, 19 September 2003 06:54 (twenty years ago) link
Also, die.
― David Allen, Friday, 19 September 2003 06:58 (twenty years ago) link
― trife (simon_tr), Friday, 19 September 2003 06:59 (twenty years ago) link
― trife (simon_tr), Friday, 19 September 2003 07:00 (twenty years ago) link
― trife (simon_tr), Friday, 19 September 2003 07:02 (twenty years ago) link
Or, I don't know, maybe you could give your reasoning.
― David Allen, Friday, 19 September 2003 07:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 19 September 2003 07:05 (twenty years ago) link
My feelings could best be expressed with this emoticon:
:-P
― David Allen, Friday, 19 September 2003 07:05 (twenty years ago) link
― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Friday, 19 September 2003 07:17 (twenty years ago) link
now you die
― JasonD (JasonD), Friday, 19 September 2003 07:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Friday, 19 September 2003 09:50 (twenty years ago) link
― H (Heruy), Friday, 19 September 2003 11:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 19 September 2003 13:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 19 September 2003 13:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 19 September 2003 13:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 19 September 2003 13:35 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious ;-) (nickalicious), Friday, 19 September 2003 14:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 19 September 2003 14:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 19 September 2003 14:10 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 19 September 2003 14:54 (twenty years ago) link
― kill me now, Friday, 19 September 2003 14:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Vious, Friday, 19 September 2003 15:01 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 19 September 2003 15:37 (twenty years ago) link
When I give you advice you'll know it! Besides, I think we agree anyway. I'm sorry if I offended you.
― Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 19 September 2003 15:55 (twenty years ago) link
― gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 19 September 2003 15:59 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 19 September 2003 16:17 (twenty years ago) link
Really though, it's not like I said, "And I prefer this song to other rap music! Jay-Z/The Neptunes/Timbaland/Anybody else who is well-respected around here is just too... oh you know, negro!"
I really don't care who recorded it, at what time, or of what race. It's just a good song.
― David Allen, Friday, 19 September 2003 16:21 (twenty years ago) link
― David Allen, Friday, 19 September 2003 16:22 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 19 September 2003 17:19 (twenty years ago) link
Agree with trife on the idea of Outkast's fanbase being folks who not only make a point of telling you they have black friends, but can count/list those friends if asked.* When Stankonia came out, Alternative Press put Outkast on the cover. I predicted to the editor that it would be their lowest-selling issue of the year. It was. I've never again been as confident about the collective good taste of the AP readership, but that one time they were right on the money.
*I don't have any friends, and I like it that way.
― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Friday, 19 September 2003 17:27 (twenty years ago) link
― trife (simon_tr), Friday, 19 September 2003 17:32 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 19 September 2003 17:35 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 19 September 2003 17:36 (twenty years ago) link
Okay, these people exist, and they might be annoying to you, but what is the point of criticizing them? They have a lot to learn about race. We all do.
― Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 19 September 2003 17:40 (twenty years ago) link
― Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 19 September 2003 17:41 (twenty years ago) link
― trife (simon_tr), Friday, 19 September 2003 17:45 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 19 September 2003 17:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 19 September 2003 17:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 19 September 2003 17:55 (twenty years ago) link
― trife (simon_tr), Friday, 19 September 2003 17:56 (twenty years ago) link
― trife (simon_tr), Friday, 19 September 2003 17:57 (twenty years ago) link
― trife (simon_tr), Friday, 19 September 2003 17:59 (twenty years ago) link
Lack of exposure to black culture?And I think Curtis was just pointing out what was either an inconsistency in your argument or some semantic trouble... whatever, you're just being faux-naif anyway, you strawman
― Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 19 September 2003 18:01 (twenty years ago) link
Worried about ending up with a tarnished reputation. Some people care about what others think of them. (fwiw I'm not one of those people)
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 19 September 2003 18:01 (twenty years ago) link
― trife (simon_tr), Friday, 19 September 2003 18:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 19 September 2003 18:04 (twenty years ago) link
― trife (simon_tr), Friday, 19 September 2003 18:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 September 2003 18:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 19 September 2003 18:10 (twenty years ago) link
― trife (simon_tr), Friday, 19 September 2003 18:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 19 September 2003 18:14 (twenty years ago) link
The Fugitive ha ha ha
(I see whatcher sayin, I guess I just happen to know some really panty-waist PC-types who just don't want their permanent record to bear a scarlet "R")
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 19 September 2003 18:19 (twenty years ago) link
― trife (simon_tr), Friday, 19 September 2003 18:22 (twenty years ago) link
― trife (simon_tr), Friday, 19 September 2003 18:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 19 September 2003 18:27 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 19 September 2003 18:28 (twenty years ago) link
― JasonD (JasonD), Friday, 19 September 2003 18:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 19 September 2003 18:45 (twenty years ago) link
well I don't think they're the most important group in hip-hop, and I've only heard it once and really didn't think it sounded like indie rock, but I did like it.
That's the thing though; I don't think there's a unified opinion to this supposed "I have black friends" set. It's not like there's a unified I Have Black Friends Party platform or something! People say things for different reasons sometimes.
also probably no one will admit to being in this set.
― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 19 September 2003 18:52 (twenty years ago) link
― JasonD (JasonD), Friday, 19 September 2003 19:11 (twenty years ago) link
― the ghastly fop, Friday, 19 September 2003 20:07 (twenty years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 19 September 2003 21:34 (twenty years ago) link
As for Outkast, I think they occaisionally are a little self-indulgent and perhaps critically overrated, but still I think Aquemini is a great album (and a real hip hop album)...I haven't heard the new one, but Trife I think you'd have to admit that at least early Outkast (Southernplayalistic) was pretty much straight up southern hip hop, and good at that.....
― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 19 September 2003 22:00 (twenty years ago) link
― d k (d k), Saturday, 20 September 2003 00:42 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 20 September 2003 01:45 (twenty years ago) link
Aaaannnnndddd sexism.
We've got everything going here. Trife: what are some singles you think I should hear but am overlooking?
― David Allen, Saturday, 20 September 2003 02:40 (twenty years ago) link
― d k (d k), Saturday, 20 September 2003 03:00 (twenty years ago) link
i don't think real hip-hop is in any danger of ALL going the way of dre, nor sadly do i think that there's any real chance that the indie kids are gonna start to like real hip-hop en masse except in a "ironic" (ne blackface) way anyway.
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 20 September 2003 04:18 (twenty years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Saturday, 20 September 2003 04:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Saturday, 20 September 2003 07:16 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Saturday, 20 September 2003 07:28 (twenty years ago) link
The girl's only in the video because she's got a great ass. If there was another reason for her presence, she would be facing the camera, instead of pointing her ass at it every time she's seen. So how is appreciating that ass sexist? Should I instead have called her out for her superb delivery of the two lines of dialogue the director gave her?
― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Saturday, 20 September 2003 13:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Saturday, 20 September 2003 13:35 (twenty years ago) link
― nathalie (nathalie), Saturday, 20 September 2003 15:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 20 September 2003 15:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Saturday, 20 September 2003 15:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Saturday, 20 September 2003 19:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 21 September 2003 05:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Sunday, 21 September 2003 23:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 21 September 2003 23:42 (twenty years ago) link
I can totally understand feeling like that, but I fear the Andre 3000 Quartet album.
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 September 2003 14:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Monday, 22 September 2003 18:57 (twenty years ago) link
― dan carstens, Saturday, 13 December 2003 20:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 13 December 2003 20:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 14 December 2003 06:25 (twenty years ago) link
― MerkinMuffley (MerkinMuffley), Sunday, 14 December 2003 07:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 14 December 2003 07:09 (twenty years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 14 December 2003 07:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 14 December 2003 07:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Brontosaurus, Sunday, 14 December 2003 07:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 14 December 2003 07:25 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Sunday, 14 December 2003 07:28 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Sunday, 14 December 2003 07:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 14 December 2003 07:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Brontosaurus, Sunday, 14 December 2003 07:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 14 December 2003 07:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Brontosaurus, Sunday, 14 December 2003 07:35 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Sunday, 14 December 2003 07:35 (twenty years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 14 December 2003 07:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 14 December 2003 07:36 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Sunday, 14 December 2003 07:37 (twenty years ago) link
single of the year!
― Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 14 December 2003 07:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 14 December 2003 07:39 (twenty years ago) link
Yeah, I know where he's going with this. He's calling me soft and easily influenced by the appearance of a guitar. Soon we'll be having another godforsaken argument about black vs. white music or some such nonsense.
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 14 December 2003 07:40 (twenty years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Sunday, 14 December 2003 07:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 14 December 2003 07:48 (twenty years ago) link
What do you mean by this?
― Brontosaurus, Sunday, 14 December 2003 07:50 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Sunday, 14 December 2003 07:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 14 December 2003 07:57 (twenty years ago) link
Outkast has been at the top of the game since just about the get-go, rhyming like fucking thunderstorms, and gradually, album by album, throwing more shit into the mix. But they've always had this southern soul backbone, and the new album feels like them saying, what if we forget rhyming? What if we go as far as we want with just this sound we've been leaning on, just the soul? And let's do it now, while no one's going to look down on us for emphasizing the production and whatnot, let's do it while we can get away with it. (Jay-Z, same deal -- it's all about the producer in 2003.) And the album has mixed results, to be sure. But "Hey Ya" nails it... acid and funk and gospel thrown into one stew, high and mighty.
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 14 December 2003 08:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 14 December 2003 08:07 (twenty years ago) link
(alternate question: how unavoidable was it that andre would make a record that sounded like this?)
― tom west (thomp), Sunday, 14 December 2003 08:08 (twenty years ago) link
And maybe Andre's album only sounds unavoidable now that we've heard it.
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 14 December 2003 08:10 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Sunday, 14 December 2003 08:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 14 December 2003 08:16 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Sunday, 14 December 2003 08:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 14 December 2003 08:21 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Sunday, 14 December 2003 08:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 14 December 2003 08:30 (twenty years ago) link
Plus, this thread was so sad before it was revived. Cultural vacuum! I guess trife is just grooving at those Pow Wows* he attends regularly, eh?
*Sundance? Potlatch? Medicine Wheel? Parse the differences.
Me, I'm white, I like "Hey Ya" a lot, I have mostly white friends, not a choice thing but a cultural accident, but also friends who are Black, Native, Middle Eastern, South East Asian, Indian, Pakistani, etc. I don't choose friends on the basis of race. That would be.... um.... racist? Although, after reading the above shite, my application for Klan membership (an American organisation, btw, ) is now in the mail. Just a hunch, but I think they'll probably turn me down...
IL* is exceptionally bizarre w/r/t race and race issues. Paranoid Zealots R Us?
Relax, maybe? Pick one's battles. Racism is an evil, but so's American world hegemony.
Back to the song: it's great. "In Da Club" is also a very good song, one of the best of '03, but while it's just as self-conscious and self-regarding, it's not quite as garbled and goofy and plain exuberant. But that's an individual taste thing, not some indicator of racial preference, for fuck's sakes.
I mean, ISN'T THIS OBVIOUS!!!???
― David A. (Davant), Sunday, 14 December 2003 08:56 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Sunday, 14 December 2003 09:00 (twenty years ago) link
who the fuck are you people?????????
― Sonny A. (Keiko), Sunday, 14 December 2003 09:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Nihilist Pop Star (mjt), Sunday, 14 December 2003 09:17 (twenty years ago) link
how do you breathe in that cultural vacuum
-- trife (...), September 19th, 2003.
(Ha, I just noticed the name of the original poster is similar to mine... a coincidence, I assure you!)
Otherwise, consider the entire thread as one huge quote.
― David A. (Davant), Sunday, 14 December 2003 09:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Sonny A. (Keiko), Sunday, 14 December 2003 09:19 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 14 December 2003 09:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Nihilist Pop Star (mjt), Sunday, 14 December 2003 09:26 (twenty years ago) link
― David A. (Davant), Sunday, 14 December 2003 09:27 (twenty years ago) link
Why did you start your "Hey Ya"-defending post with this and then become angry and say that the song has nothing to do with "I have black friends" people?
heaven forbid that people like pop music because it is fun and catchy.
Sterling's cultural-regression-as-radical-subjectivism to thread! ("Oh get off it, I don't like Skrewdriver for any reason, stop analyzing everything all the time, its just good music")
― A.M., Sunday, 14 December 2003 09:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 14 December 2003 10:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 14 December 2003 10:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Iam Anonentity, Sunday, 14 December 2003 11:06 (twenty years ago) link
― John Fredland (jfredland), Sunday, 14 December 2003 13:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 14 December 2003 13:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 15 December 2003 00:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 December 2003 00:19 (twenty years ago) link
― David Allen, Monday, 15 December 2003 00:38 (twenty years ago) link
And when did Frank Black ever mix such naked emotion with a beat (and bass - which is just as important as the damn acoustic guitar here) this insistent? If this is a Frank Black number, it's probably the best one ever. I guess I shouldn't be surprised nobody's talked about this any differently than they would an igneous rock since rarely does ILX fess up to any emotional reaction to the music.
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 15 December 2003 00:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 15 December 2003 00:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 15 December 2003 01:04 (twenty years ago) link
It has to do with all those thing for me (save perhaps for being white, although I guess that influences my perception of everything in one way or another), that's why it puts such a grin on my face. If I were just going for catchy, I'd pick "Toxic" as the best of the year. Nevermind that it's not a single. Fuck all that radical subjectivism stuff. I'm capable of it, sure, but seeing as how it's radically subjective, it's not much worth talking about. I mean, if I can't put my finger on why I like it, then I'm just assuming that you trust me. And let's face it, you don't. ("You" being ILM, I guess.)
And Anthony OTM. It is a great lyric, too. A perfect song! Wha'd I say?
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 15 December 2003 04:45 (twenty years ago) link
"all the 'i have black friends' ppl ive ever known have been straight racists, usually saying that to defend their batshit racist plan to dismantle welfare or end affirmative action or make hiphop sound like the flaming lips"
so fuck y'all.
(also "shake it like a polariod picture" is growing on me as a smart smart line about regret and sex)
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 15 December 2003 07:03 (twenty years ago) link
― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 December 2003 07:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 15 December 2003 07:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 15 December 2003 07:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 15 December 2003 08:45 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 15 December 2003 14:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 15 December 2003 15:25 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 15 December 2003 15:31 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 15 December 2003 15:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 21:10 (twenty years ago) link
Hey Ya is good but is a whimpering puppy in comparison.
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 21:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 21:25 (twenty years ago) link
This is not necessarily true, but it's gotten to the point that I find it weird, as a multi-genre enthusiast (let alone a black one, if I cared what my Idiot Brother thought or what I once inferred from another friend), that I suspect stuff such as this or the occasional mash-ups I hear. I could blame mash-up suspicion on oversaturation though.
― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 21:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 21:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 21:42 (twenty years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 21:46 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 21:51 (twenty years ago) link
That's not fair. If I say "I have black friends" then I'm one of those guys. I can't win.
And I think I was using "innovative" differently than you are. I know it's essentially a mash-up of at least three distinct and pre-existing styles of music. It's the combination that sounds new to me. Maybe "innovative" isn't the word. Fresh? I don't mean in that Kool and the Gang way... except kinda... oh, I give up.
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 21:52 (twenty years ago) link
(NB I like the song.)
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 21:57 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 21:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 21:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 21:59 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 22:01 (twenty years ago) link
BTW, your experience should be able to be brought to bear without citing the race of your friends. I have few black friends in comparison to the white ones, and I didn't think that mattered shit here.
― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 22:01 (twenty years ago) link
No, they all left me after I said I liked an Alicia Keys record.
― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 22:03 (twenty years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 22:04 (twenty years ago) link
Haha at Nick. You soft.
― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 22:04 (twenty years ago) link
― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 22:06 (twenty years ago) link
― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 22:07 (twenty years ago) link
As Andre says, "Everybody needs to quit actin' hard and shit."
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 22:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 22:18 (twenty years ago) link
Actually, the balance IS Andre and Big Boi!
― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 22:19 (twenty years ago) link
it's sad really, it's not Outkast's fault.
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 22:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 22:38 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 22:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 22:41 (twenty years ago) link
Ronan is still otm. And anyway, I thought the small can had been opened?
― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 22:46 (twenty years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 22:54 (twenty years ago) link
― andrew s, Thursday, 18 December 2003 05:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 18 December 2003 05:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 18 December 2003 05:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 18 December 2003 05:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 18 December 2003 05:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 18 December 2003 05:47 (twenty years ago) link
― nate detritus (natedetritus), Thursday, 18 December 2003 06:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 18 December 2003 06:37 (twenty years ago) link
― David A. (Davant), Thursday, 18 December 2003 07:05 (twenty years ago) link
If so, Nick, I kiss you for your "Hey Ya" piece on Stylus' year-end list!
― David A. (Davant), Thursday, 18 December 2003 07:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 18 December 2003 09:45 (twenty years ago) link
But Nick's write-up was a hot piece of ass.
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 18 December 2003 12:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 18 December 2003 13:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 18 December 2003 13:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 18 December 2003 13:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 18 December 2003 13:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 18 December 2003 13:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 18 December 2003 13:30 (twenty years ago) link
(btw it's a good thing no one took my pfork bet.)
― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 18 December 2003 15:01 (twenty years ago) link
― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 18 December 2003 15:05 (twenty years ago) link
Only Dom and I voted for it at PFM, Nick - boo to everyone else. (btw, seven of the top nine singles in the pfm/stylus lists are the same) (your second 10 kills ours though.) (fwiw, hey ya was easily the PFM No. 1 -- it was on 14 of 15 ballots, all but mine, and placed first on six of those.)
― scott pl. (scott pl.), Thursday, 18 December 2003 15:18 (twenty years ago) link
― dleone (dleone), Thursday, 18 December 2003 15:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 18 December 2003 15:47 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 18 December 2003 20:32 (twenty years ago) link
― scott pl. (scott pl.), Thursday, 18 December 2003 21:11 (twenty years ago) link
― nate detritus (natedetritus), Thursday, 18 December 2003 21:20 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 18 December 2003 21:32 (twenty years ago) link
This does make it the greatest pro-wrestling name drop in music history.
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 23:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 1 January 2004 08:04 (twenty years ago) link
― adam west (adamwest), Thursday, 1 January 2004 08:13 (twenty years ago) link
Grrr...
i'm-a-rapper-but-i'm-trying-to-make-a-wacky-indie-rock-type-song
Grrrrr......
i still like 'hey ya' despite it's incredibly annoying unavoidability
GRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You people are horrible!!
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 1 January 2004 08:20 (twenty years ago) link
― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 1 January 2004 08:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 1 January 2004 08:49 (twenty years ago) link
― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 1 January 2004 09:02 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 January 2004 09:30 (twenty years ago) link
― billstevejim, Thursday, 1 January 2004 09:43 (twenty years ago) link
― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 1 January 2004 09:50 (twenty years ago) link
― billstevejim, Thursday, 1 January 2004 09:59 (twenty years ago) link
― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 1 January 2004 10:06 (twenty years ago) link
the song also seems kind of mid-late 090s, that genre-hopping thing, 'eclecticism' etc (the bane of the 90s sadly, making everything a muddy nothing, the excreble Beck etc), so in a way this record seems kind of quaint now, a throwback to that time, and, of course, also a throwback to 1970s sitcom music, which is what this sounds like to me.
1970s sitcom music can be a good thing, but i would say not in the case of this record, which feels too much like a spoof of some unknown american comedy show which never travelled across the Atlantic
― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 1 January 2004 11:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 1 January 2004 11:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 1 January 2004 12:10 (twenty years ago) link
(ps it must be a pop song because I hate indie rock.)
― cis (cis), Thursday, 1 January 2004 12:36 (twenty years ago) link
― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Thursday, 1 January 2004 13:09 (twenty years ago) link
― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 1 January 2004 13:49 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.liquidgeneration.com/poptoons/saddam_outkast.asp
(Saddam Is An Outkast: "Hey Allah")
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 8 January 2004 16:12 (twenty years ago) link
― vajpayee/musharraf, Wednesday, 14 January 2004 17:31 (twenty years ago) link
― america's first municipal lunatic asylum (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 17:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 17:36 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 17:44 (twenty years ago) link
Agree with trife on the idea of Outkast's fanbase being folks who not only make a point of telling you they have black friends, but can count/list those friends if asked.
Yeah yeah yeah yeah, being able to count your friends = clearly racist. Has this actually happened though? Have you asked them to list their black friends, and have they been able to?
Anyway1) wtf, the song is not like the Flaming Lips2) stop judging songs on who listens to them! 3) i was going off it, but i listened to it today, and it's still good so nerr.
― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 17:48 (twenty years ago) link
Hey Ya actually ended up just under 'Ghettomusick' in my singles list. Obv. 2003 is very dead, but I wrote it up at work to distract myself and might revive one of the '03 threads for it.
Also, when making my Cornelius comparisons, I should have pointed out that even the sleevenotes (the 'New Music Machine' pic of Keigo as a 60s band) pre-empt 'Hey Ya's' video! Even the back cover does too!
"uh, I'm pretty sure it's referring to Aaliyah."
That's 'Baby Girl'.
And finally, it was funny how no one asked me to be their black friend, either because Dan is cooler, I'm exclusively Stevem's black mate or because not many of ya know I'm black!
― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 19:02 (twenty years ago) link
Trife, the guys on your CD covers don't count.
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 14 January 2004 23:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew L (Andrew L), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 23:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 23:52 (twenty years ago) link
― nate detritus (natedetritus), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 23:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Carrie Mclaughlin, Saturday, 17 January 2004 03:54 (twenty years ago) link
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Saturday, 17 January 2004 03:58 (twenty years ago) link
― tweemu (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 17 January 2004 04:05 (twenty years ago) link
― David Allen (David Allen), Saturday, 17 January 2004 05:45 (twenty years ago) link
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Saturday, 17 January 2004 05:58 (twenty years ago) link
― applepie baseball, Saturday, 17 January 2004 06:03 (twenty years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 17 January 2004 15:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Thursday, 22 January 2004 11:13 (twenty years ago) link
― cis (cis), Thursday, 22 January 2004 11:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Thursday, 22 January 2004 11:40 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 22 January 2004 17:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Adm Michel (adam michel), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:02 (twenty years ago) link
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Friday, 23 January 2004 16:59 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 23 January 2004 17:21 (twenty years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 23 January 2004 17:51 (twenty years ago) link
Cis OTM.
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 23 January 2004 17:58 (twenty years ago) link
― yeah_right, Friday, 23 January 2004 21:03 (twenty years ago) link
― yeah right, Friday, 23 January 2004 21:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 31 January 2004 23:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Saturday, 31 January 2004 23:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 31 January 2004 23:58 (twenty years ago) link
"His like Dylan, you see, but only more *inventive*.
― Jimmy the Saint (Jimmy the Saint), Sunday, 1 February 2004 00:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 1 February 2004 00:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Sunday, 1 February 2004 01:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 1 February 2004 01:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Sunday, 1 February 2004 02:06 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 1 February 2004 02:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 1 February 2004 17:39 (twenty years ago) link
― nate detritus (natedetritus), Sunday, 1 February 2004 18:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 1 February 2004 18:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Jimmy the Not Logged In Saint, Sunday, 1 February 2004 18:26 (twenty years ago) link
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― nate detritus (natedetritus), Sunday, 1 February 2004 18:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 1 February 2004 18:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 1 February 2004 18:29 (twenty years ago) link
YOU CORNY INDIE FUCKS.
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Sunday, 1 February 2004 18:43 (twenty years ago) link
And "Hollywood Freaks" and "Debra" are the real masterpieces on Midnite Vultures, y'all.
Not entirely true ('Nicotine and Gravy' and yeah, 'Get Real Paid'), but the Dust Brothers rule all.
Also, 'Play In The Sunshine' kills 'Hey Ya!' and practically any other SOTT track mentioned thus far.
― Barima (Barima), Sunday, 1 February 2004 22:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Sunday, 1 February 2004 22:33 (twenty years ago) link
And I forgot! And I own the 12"!
― nate detritus (natedetritus), Sunday, 1 February 2004 22:36 (twenty years ago) link
-- Sonny A. (newaddres...), September 19th, 2003.
Hate is a four letter word, so is love. Which one will you teach your children?
― David Schwimmer, Monday, 2 February 2004 02:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Proppa Ezrakation, Tuesday, 10 February 2004 21:37 (twenty years ago) link
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― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 19 February 2004 17:44 (twenty years ago) link
― jeromy cole, Tuesday, 24 February 2004 23:24 (twenty years ago) link
― bob, Thursday, 26 February 2004 21:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Thursday, 26 February 2004 21:27 (twenty years ago) link
XPOST!
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 26 February 2004 21:28 (twenty years ago) link
SO SAYS "poohead_48"!
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 26 February 2004 21:28 (twenty years ago) link
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― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 22 August 2004 20:54 (nineteen years ago) link
I just saw the video. I didn't bother to read the Oukast thread, it would probably only dishearten me. But this song was brilliant. I literally gasped in amazement. It would take me such a long time to explain all the reasons why I love this song -- hell, just to name all of the different styles of music (some of them non-existent) the song employs. I love humanity. -- David Allen (Davidalle...), September 19th, 2003 12:52 AM.
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Man, you're so full of shit.
-- Squirrel_Police (goblinatri...), February 1st, 2004 5:42 PM
― Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 22 August 2004 21:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Sunday, 22 August 2004 21:01 (nineteen years ago) link
-- David Allen (Davidalle...), September 19th, 2003 8:52 AM.
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explain!
-- Anthony Miccio (anthonymicci...), February 1st, 2004 1:43 AM. (Anthony Miccio)
― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 22 August 2004 21:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 22 August 2004 21:03 (nineteen years ago) link
Happy?
― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Sunday, 22 August 2004 21:08 (nineteen years ago) link
I kind of feel the same way about "Hey Ya". Despite the fact that this song has been playing in every clothing store, taxi cab, and pay toilet I've been in over these past 16 months, I have never heard this song in its entirety, and thus am sick of it without ever having properly experienced it.
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 27 August 2004 13:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:40 (nineteen years ago) link
My $.02: I liked Hey Ya, but reached saturation point early in its run. And I want Frank Black to be my friend.
― briania (briania), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:27 (nineteen years ago) link
oh, and 'romeo must die soundtrack' was a mixup (i had just listened to it when i wrote that, actually). i was TRYING to say 'the nutty professor two soundtrack', which was too commercial and 'jiggy' to fit into my musical tastes last summer, until i found it and stole it and now i love it (and more tracks than i said in my article: the eve track is fantastic, the dmx one is mostly great, etc.)
-- ethan padgett (epadget...), March 1st, 2001.
― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 27 August 2004 21:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 27 August 2004 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― artiste (artiste), Saturday, 28 August 2004 00:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 28 August 2004 01:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 28 August 2004 01:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 28 August 2004 02:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 28 August 2004 02:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Saturday, 28 August 2004 06:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 28 August 2004 06:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Saturday, 28 August 2004 06:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Saturday, 28 August 2004 06:42 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.doctordanger.com/projects/honda/strip/cif.jpg
― Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 28 August 2004 06:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 28 August 2004 06:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Saturday, 28 August 2004 06:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Saturday, 28 August 2004 10:22 (nineteen years ago) link
Really hoping that wasn't directed at me, as I'm about as indie as Rick Schroeder (I'm about as ghetto as Rick Schroeder, but that's another story).
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 28 August 2004 13:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 28 August 2004 13:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 13:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 13:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 13:48 (nineteen years ago) link
1. "Never heard of it, sorry"
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 13:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 13:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 13:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 13:51 (nineteen years ago) link
i fckng LOVE popjustice. i wonder how i ever lived without it.
― piscesboy, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 13:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 13:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 13:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 13:58 (nineteen years ago) link
(Why has Milkshake not joined this particular club yet, incidentally?)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:04 (nineteen years ago) link
Milkshake is BETTER than Hey Ya, Crazy In Love and Toxic, that's why.
― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:05 (nineteen years ago) link
Because the public prefers 'All This Time', obviously.
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:28 (nineteen years ago) link
Dracula's WeddingPrototype (possibly the best song on the album)SpreadShe Lives In My LapA Day In The Life Of Andre Benjamin
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:35 (nineteen years ago) link
"Dracula's Wedding" is super-funky-awesome though.
― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:38 (nineteen years ago) link
Hahaha okay we are just not going to agree here!
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 14:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link
'Toxic'>>>>>every other overplay victim.
― Be sure to Moebius Loop! Moebius Loop! Moebius Loop! Moebius Loop! (Barima), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:21 (nineteen years ago) link
(xpost)
― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:21 (nineteen years ago) link
Oh get over yourselves you limey twerps
― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 15:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 17:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:37 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 11 November 2004 09:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 11 November 2004 09:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hi, I am a genius. a big one. (AaronHz), Thursday, 11 November 2004 09:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 11 November 2004 10:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 11 November 2004 10:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 11 November 2004 15:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 17 April 2005 16:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 17 April 2005 17:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 17 April 2005 17:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 17 April 2005 17:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 17 April 2005 17:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― irrigation can save your people (irrigation can save your peopl), Monday, 18 April 2005 03:08 (nineteen years ago) link
Overrated thread
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 17 March 2008 15:24 (sixteen years ago) link
i like to think that this is still ILM's favourite single of the 00s
― blueski, Monday, 17 March 2008 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link
wow, people really had their heads way up their asses here
― The Reverend, Monday, 17 March 2008 15:31 (sixteen years ago) link
I've actually ADDED this into my rotation of iPod tracks as of a few months ago. Why the hell was I so down on this song???
― Tantrum The Cat, Friday, 12 September 2008 05:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Not enough flanged guitars in this track
― Fer Ark, Friday, 12 September 2008 19:27 (fifteen years ago) link
The two big influences on this song according to Andre 3000? The Ramones and the Buzzcocks' Singles Going Steady album.
I remember that piece of trivia from an EW interview with the band around the time the song was blowing up.
― Cunga, Monday, 11 January 2010 06:50 (fourteen years ago) link
No wonder it was so beloved by college radio types.
― viborg, Monday, 11 January 2010 07:06 (fourteen years ago) link
The definitive version of Hey Ya can be found at 1'43'' here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItMJtA8vfpw&feature=player_embedded
― Alba, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 00:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow, that would be excruciating enough if they could sing.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 00:39 (thirteen years ago) link
i dont like the song very much. i agree with trife regarding the flaming lips comment. but i also think it has initiated some really interesting discussions regarding tokenism etc, and the people who like the record have said interesting stuff as wellthe song also seems kind of mid-late 090s, that genre-hopping thing, 'eclecticism' etc (the bane of the 90s sadly, making everything a muddy nothing, the excreble Beck etc), so in a way this record seems kind of quaint now, a throwback to that time, and, of course, also a throwback to 1970s sitcom music, which is what this sounds like to me.
― gareth (gareth), Thursday, January 1, 2004 6:36 AM (7 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
this is kinda otm.
first time i heard this song i pictured it getting MTV2 rotation for a few weeks and zero radio play before they came with some bigger better follow-up hit, still kind of bitter that that didn't happen.
― some dude, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 00:47 (thirteen years ago) link
this song's time signature is soooo visionary
― teledyldonix, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 01:12 (thirteen years ago) link