You’ve heard it. Still sounds good twelve years later.

I was tempted to end the post there, but that would have been just plain lazy.

“Hey Ya!” was the co-lead single from OutKast’s double album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below from 2003. Alongside Big Boi’s “The Way You Move“, “Hey Ya!” was the first single released in the lead-up toward a new album by the duo since 2000.

Despite its memorable hook and upbeat rhythm, the track is rather melancholy in tone with André 3000 singing about commitment in relationships, how love and emotions can fade over time, how two people can feign loving one another when really both of them aren’t happy at all. But as even Mr. 3000 points out: You don’t want to hear him, you just wanna dance.

Its actual meaning is probably lost on a lot of people. Maybe it’s for the better. No one would be able to shake it like a Polaroid picture in the same way again.