Hey Ya - Outkast

Hey Ya by Outkast in the style of Matt Weedle from Obidiah Parker

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"Hey Ya!" is a song written and produced by André 3000 for his 2003 album The Love Below, part of the hip hop duo 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, playing on comparisons to The Beatles by mimicking their 1964 performance on The Ed Sullivan Show. The song received praise from contemporary music critics, and it won a Grammy Award for Best Urban/Alternative Performance at the 46th Grammy Awards.

In 2006, Mat Weddle, frontman of the unsigned folk band Obadiah Parker, performed an acoustic cover of the song at a local open mike night, and a friend of his posted a video of the performance on YouTube.[43] The video gained popularity on the Internet, soon becoming a viral video, and was viewed by over one million people.[44] Inspired by slowcore band Red House Painters, Weddle's version moves at a much slower tempo backed by a rhythmic guitar strum and converts the breakdown into a "staccato chime".[42] The cover received international airplay and spawned many other copycat acoustic versions.[45]

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Music

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• Hey
• Ya
• Outkast
• Matt
• Weedle
• Version
• Style
• Obidiah
• Parker
• JD
• Scrubs
• Zach
• Braff
• Phil
• Olsen
• Guitar
• Cover