Have you ever realised the lyrics to a song are totally different to what you first thought back when you first heard it?
It’s easy to become distracted by an addictive beat, especially when songs become overplayed on the radio, so in the end you’re barely skimming the words themselves.
And one track that has fallen victim to this effect is Outkast’s 2003 track Hey Ya!, which played at pretty much every club and party in the early noughties.
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It was pretty hard to escape.
But despite its toe-tapping beat, the song actually has a pretty emotional meaning, as one TikTok user discovered.
(Image: @outkast/youtube)
User @elizabethdevasto included the bop in her series called “Songs that hit different when you know what they’re written about”.
Turns out rapper André 3000, who made up one-half of the hip hop duo Outkast, wrote the song about how “messed up” modern relationships are.
Elizabeth explained: “André 3000 actually wrote this about modern-day relationships and how messed up they are.
“In the beginning of the song, he even references his own relationship; how his baby doesn’t wanna leave him, how he doesn’t really know what the reason is behind it.”
(Image: @outkast/youtube)
She added: “What he’s talking about is in modern-day relationships, people stay in them because they just don’t want to be alone, not because of their love for the other person.
“If you just read the lyrics it actually sounds like a really sad song.
“Even at the breakdown at the end, he makes a reference to how people are just gonna see it as a happy song and not even think about the deeper meaning behind it, nor do they even wanna hear about it.”
Yep. Outkast really sing: “Y’all don’t want to hear me, you just want to dance.”
(Image: @outkast/youtube)
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Another obvious example can be found right there in the lyrics, which go a little like this: “You think you’ve got it / Oh, you think you’ve got it / But got it just don’t get it when there’s nothin’ at all.
“We get together / Oh, we get together / But separate’s always better when there’s feelings involved
“Know what they say – it’s / Nothing lasts forever!”
The official Outkast Twitter account even got involved back in 2021, sharing a snap of Andre’s head divided into two parts – with the smaller part classed as “a bop” and the larger labelled “the saddest song ever written”.
It proved enough of a bop, however, to stay at number one on the US Billboard 100 for nearly two months when it was first released.
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