Comments on: Video: Hippie cover of “Hey Ya”

By: Anwyn’s Notes in the Margin » Transgenred Fun

Anwyn’s Notes in the Margin » Transgenred Fun — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 05:55:32 +0000

[...] Music jumping genres. This is great. (h/t Allah at Hot Air, reminding you that if it’s acoustic, it’s “hippie.”) I suppose it would be funnier if I had known anything about the song or Outkast before I watched it, but since I didn’t, it was more musically impressive than funny, especially since I garnered from the context of the video what he had to work with going in. The original lyrics seem to consist of the idea that love is sex and thus not an exception to the adage “nothing lasts forever.” But since Mat Weddle of Obadiah Parker leaves out the overt sex stuff, the song morphs into a lament over being stuck in a relationship that is really over. Better song, to my way of thinking. [...]

By: Slublog

Slublog — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 04:22:56 +0000

I’m converting it to an mp3 now.

Done and in the iPod.

By: Allahpundit

Allahpundit — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 04:03:55 +0000

I’m converting it to an mp3 now. I’d post it, but I think we’d get killed on copyright issues.

By: Slublog

Slublog — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 03:56:34 +0000

Dang...that sounds really good. I'd buy it at iTunes. Here's another video in the same vein.

By: Anwyn

Anwyn — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 02:12:49 +0000

Somewhat offtopic cry for help: New to blogging, new to YouTube, can’t force WordPress to put in the embed code for YouTube video properly. It wants to format it with extraneous tags that fark it all up. Anybody want to help me out?

By: Anwyn

Anwyn — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 01:07:29 +0000

General FYI, apparently all the linkage has drained their supply of CDs. If you order one, like I did, be prepared for an email that says “thanks, but it’ll be a little while till they ship.”

By: JammieWearingFool

JammieWearingFool — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 21:22:59 +0000

Who knew Grizzly Adams could sing?

By: Alex K

Alex K — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 21:05:36 +0000

Do you have any contact info for Wes Clark? Send this to him, I’m sure he’e appreciate it.

By: pullingmyhairout

pullingmyhairout — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 20:55:47 +0000

I like it!! Me thinks i could slot that song somewhere in bewteen Joanie Mitchell and Nirvana on my ’sing along’ playlist. No really, I like it.

By: Slublog

Slublog — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 20:47:32 +0000

Outkast – The Unplugged Version…

This really shouldn’t work, but somehow, it does…….

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 20:41:10 +0000

Cool. Very Good rendition! I’d buy it too. Nice touch on the video with the Andre 3000 cameos as well. :)

By: Anwyn

Anwyn — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 20:09:56 +0000

Hah, vindication: I thought it sounded more like Counting Crows than any hippie rock I ever heard.

By: Anwyn

Anwyn — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 20:05:49 +0000

Best I can tell it's essentially the idea that love is just sex and is not an exception to the adage "nothing lasts forever." (At least in the Outkast version; this guy mercifully left out the overt sex part, so in his version it's pretty much about being in a relationship that's really over, which makes a better song to my way of thinking.)

By: Andy in Agoura Hills

Andy in Agoura Hills — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 19:52:49 +0000

Even when a white guy sings these lyrics I still don’t understand them. What do they mean?????

By: RightWinged

RightWinged — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 19:22:20 +0000

That’s actually not bad

By: John

John — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 18:50:18 +0000

I’d buy that for a dollar. Somebody needs to get this guy on iTunes.

By: labwrs

labwrs — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 18:09:08 +0000

I got it..HEYA..it's the FUNKIE FOLKIE!!

By: Anwyn

Anwyn — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 17:38:23 +0000

Admission of herd thinking instead of the original stuff we love you for. Maybe you *do* need a vacation, nerfherder. :)

By: Allahpundit

Allahpundit — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 17:34:42 +0000

They called it a “hippie” cover at MeFi and Trip Cart so I thought I’d stick with it.

By: Anwyn

Anwyn — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 17:33:53 +0000

Allah, Allah, Allah. It’s a “hippie” cover … what, because the guy plays an acoustic guitar? We *need* to clean up your definitions.

. o O (mmmm …. excellent acoustic guitar … excellent singer … cute little smirk at the camera when he he got through singing “see y’all on y’all’s baddest behavior … mmm, acoustic guitar player … )

By: The Machine

The Machine — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 17:32:56 +0000

Now there’s a switch, a lone white guy with an acoustic guitar who can actually play it pretty and sing in tune with interpretation.

Wow, it can happen.

Thanks for posting that.