100 Best Songs of the 2000s: OutKast, 'Hey Ya'

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OutKast, 'Hey Ya!'

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After all these years, "Hey Ya!" sounds as weird and fantastic as it did the first time: A genre-humping blur of acoustic guitars, hand claps, dance instructions and André 3000's funktastic charm. Fifty years from now, kids will still be asking what a Polaroid picture is.