Number 10

OUTKAST - HEY YA!

(Benjamin)

(2003)

(UK #3, USA #1, Aus. #1 + Grammy: Best Urban/Alternative Perf. '04)

2003's most infectscious dance floor moment lit up the end of the year and the beginning of the next in Britain, peaking at number 3. Elsewhere the song went catastrophic scaling the dizzy peaks of number one atop the USA, Australian, Norwegian, Swedish, Canadian and World charts. No other song of the period could compete with Andre 3000's declaration that love just ain't what it used to be (#If nothing is forever then what makes love the exception?#). With comparisons to Little Richard, The Flaming Lips, The Beatles, Prince and Ike Turner it was clear that this had set the bench mark for genre bending without a sample in sight, and yet the song remained distinctly Outkast. Naming checking Beyonce and Lucy Liu, and bringing the Polaroid camera back into the public conscious was in a days work for the Grammy-Award winning duo, and this remains the highlight of their career.