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Barima - yes, I got email the other day. Thanks for the MP3 - sadly as I am an absent-minded fule I forgot to actually listen to it. Will do so in the next couple of days.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 11 November 2004 10:54 (nineteen years ago) link
Part of the endless appeal for "Hey Ya" for me (aside from musical elements) is that if I'm down I can focus on the lyrics during the first two minutes, and if I'm happy I can focus on the last two.
― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 11 November 2004 15:29 (nineteen years ago) link
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plus he ain't gonna hand out cookies for sloppy
Sign O' The Times demos when all he wants is more Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik. I will though!
― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 17 April 2005 17:10 (nineteen years ago) link
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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
one year passes...
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 well
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, 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