# The song "Hey Ya" can officially suck my dick **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 5, 2004, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-hey-ya-can-officially-suck-my-dick/227644 "2004-02-05T08:37:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-hey-ya-can-officially-suck-my-dick/227644/61 "2004-02-06T03:47:31Z")
> [@bookbuster](#): > > oh well, ok, not the girls… or is one of those girls Andre3000? they do all like like genuine ladies to me. The older white lady who “shakes it” towards the end is played by Andre3000. But all the other girls are real. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![pokey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@pokey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pokey)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-hey-ya-can-officially-suck-my-dick/227644/62 "2004-02-06T03:49:10Z")
> [@Ilsa\_Lund](#): > > The beat is really interesting. It is a steady 4/4, but on every third measure, it goes 6/4 while keeping the same quarter note beat. This makes it so very satisfying to drum on the steering wheel while singing on the way to work. I’m lucky cause I only heard Hey Ya and The Way You Move once time each before I bought the cd so I was free to make myself sick of it at my own pace. I think in 20 years I will still like to see Andre with no shirt on. I think that’s a timeless classic. ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-hey-ya-can-officially-suck-my-dick/227644/63 "2004-02-06T05:29:37Z")
Oddly, I’m not tired of this song yet, despite having heard it about twenty billion fucking times since October or whenever. However, I absolutely _hate_ the rest of the album. Fucking despise every other song. Blech. I listened to it about once through and that’s all I ever need to hear of Outkast again. Just not for me. ---
**Author:** ![labmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f19dbf/32.png) [@labmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/labmonkey)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-hey-ya-can-officially-suck-my-dick/227644/64 "2004-02-06T06:35:51Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > It also boasts one of the best videos EVER. I agree, though don’t you find it’s neo-retro style derivitive of early 90’s 60’s retro which was itself derivitive of 70’s 50’s retro wistfulness? i.e. Nirvana’s performance of “In Bloom” on the Ed Sullivan show? _slaps music snob_ just kidding, “Hey Ya” fucking rocks, rocks I say, " I don’t want to meet your momma, just want to make u cumma…" Gold. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-hey-ya-can-officially-suck-my-dick/227644/65 "2004-02-06T08:03:45Z")
**bookbuster** , thanks for the link. I hadn’t seen the video for Hey ya and hadn’t even heard The Way You Move. Just wow. Great videos and incredibly catchy songs. I need to buy this album. ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-hey-ya-can-officially-suck-my-dick/227644/66 "2004-02-06T11:05:15Z")
> [@Krebnut](#): > > Anyway, I love to shakeit-comeonandshakeit-shake it like a polaroid pic-cha! I must get up and give it my best bum rattle. _and_ **I like Who Let the Dogs out, too.** [/FONT]What!!? (crap coding mine) the fuck? you _like that song?_ Are you fucking insane?? that song is worst fucking song to ever get played in the history of fucking music. How…what? I can’t believe you. :eek: :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Hiretsukan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e47774/32.png) [@Hiretsukan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hiretsukan)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-hey-ya-can-officially-suck-my-dick/227644/67 "2004-02-06T12:24:57Z")
Seriously, if you hate this song, you hate fun. It’s played as hell, but there’s not much to be done about that. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-hey-ya-can-officially-suck-my-dick/227644/68 "2004-02-06T12:33:53Z")
Okay, I am SERIOUSLY out of it, culturally. I listen to NPR on the radio, and I don’t have cable, so I had never heard Hey Ya! until I read a review of Outkast’s album in the Chicago Reader. I dled it and…I LOVE it. I have to go out and buy the CD. (I’ve dled some other Outkast songs too.) I have gotten so much enjoyment out of my snitched music, I feel guilty and want Outkast to have my money. I guess it’s overplayed somewhere, but not in my circle. Well, I’ve listened to it about eight hundred times on my computer, it’s on hiatus at the moment. Lovelovelove. ---
**Author:** ![Blackclaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e68b1a/32.png) [@Blackclaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackclaw)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-hey-ya-can-officially-suck-my-dick/227644/69 "2004-02-06T13:29:53Z")
> [@Binarydrone](#): > > It may be that this is becoming as trite as chiming in with “Band Name!”, but I still must say that this has the makings of a great sig line. If someone uses this as their sig line, I will have achieved my greatest Straightdope ambition. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Blackclaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e68b1a/32.png) [@Blackclaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackclaw)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-hey-ya-can-officially-suck-my-dick/227644/70 "2004-02-06T13:36:53Z")
“This” being > [@](#): > > Why must zombies always feel the need to create more zombies? Can’t they just eat our brains and let us lie in peace? not my stupid thread pirate sig which I need to just erase… ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-hey-ya-can-officially-suck-my-dick/227644/71 "2004-02-06T14:11:19Z")
I bought the CD from iTunes and listened to it while staying up all night. It’s a damn good CD. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-hey-ya-can-officially-suck-my-dick/227644/72 "2004-02-06T14:38:36Z")
Which clearly marks me as an old, old woman. ---
**Author:** ![carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrot)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-hey-ya-can-officially-suck-my-dick/227644/73 "2004-02-06T14:48:15Z")
**Jurph** is right. “Hey Ya” really sucks. That said, one good thing did at least come of “Hey Ya”. I went to see the band Pennywise play a show a couple of weeks ago, and they played a cover of “Hey Ya”. Let me tell you, if you haven’t seen a punk band cover “Hey Ya”, with choral accompaniment by a bunch of guys with mohaws and various other interesting hairstyles, you haven’t seen it the way it was meant to be seen. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-hey-ya-can-officially-suck-my-dick/227644/74 "2004-02-06T15:27:04Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > I just realized I said I love the whole “album” > Which clearly marks me as an old, old woman. Count me as a geezer too, I thought “album” was what you called it. What are they called now? Albushizzles? ---
**Author:** ![carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrot)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-hey-ya-can-officially-suck-my-dick/227644/75 "2004-02-06T15:34:12Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > Count me as a geezer too, I thought “album” was what you called it. What are they called now? Albushizzles? I always calls 'em “records”. ---
**Author:** ![gex\_gex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-hey-ya-can-officially-suck-my-dick/227644/76 "2004-02-06T15:53:51Z")
> [@](#): > > _originally posted by Revtim_ > Count me as a geezer too, I thought “album” was what you called it. What are they called now? Albushizzles? I’m 20 and I’ve called them albums all my life. From now on, they will be known only as albushizzles, however. ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-hey-ya-can-officially-suck-my-dick/227644/77 "2004-02-06T16:06:01Z")
wouldnt it be ‘albizzles’ or ‘LPizzles’? I always call em albums. CD could mean anything, but i keep it strictly oldskool, yo. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-hey-ya-can-officially-suck-my-dick/227644/78 "2004-02-06T16:41:19Z")
“Album” isn’t an old word. An “album” is any recording media with a large number of songs. You can have the same “album” on CD, tape, LP, 8-track, or in a dorectory on your hard drive, or saved in your mp3 player. “LP,” now that’s a fogie term. If you’re confused, just shake it. Shake it. Shake it like a Polaroid picture. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-hey-ya-can-officially-suck-my-dick/227644/79 "2004-02-06T17:26:55Z")
After I heard “Hey Ya” on the radio one day and found out it was Outkast (I enjoyed Stankonia immensely) I went right out and bought the albushizzle. It’s the rare albushizzle that you can listen to 20 times and the 21st time you put it on it still surprises you and makes you say “I hadn’t heard that before” and “Man, I hardly even remember this song”. I don’t mean that in the sense that the songs are forgettable but rather that there’s just such an overload of good stuff and different stuff on that album that you can’t process it all. I’m real glad to see a lot of love for this albushizzle here, and I feel bad for the folks that can’t get by the “pop” label or overplayed nature of “Hey Ya”, because when I hear it open, I just grin and can’t turn it off. My only complaint with the L.Pizzle are the stupid skits. ---
**Author:** ![Homer\_J](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c37758/32.png) [@Homer\_J](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer_J)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-hey-ya-can-officially-suck-my-dick/227644/80 "2004-02-06T19:48:05Z")
Fatman Scoop also offically sucks, i cant believe hes so popular given the fact he literally just shouts into the microphone, i think its a perfect representation of the power of media / the stupidity and fickleness of youth, im only 18, but i hate modern music(charts etc) my favourite band is led zep, i cant understand why people like this, infact i dont think they do, i think they think they have to because everyone else thinks they have to, no-one has the guts to say what they mean. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-hey-ya-can-officially-suck-my-dick/227644.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-hey-ya-can-officially-suck-my-dick/227644.md?page=5)