Hey Ya!

OK, I don't care what anyone else thinks, or what's expected of me, or what my parents tell me I can think: Hey Ya! is a great song. It opens talking about his girlfriend and the relationship they have: He thinks that they're in love, and that he can trust his girlfriend completely, but he ends the first verse admitting that his parents have a better relationship. Then the second verse is soul searching about the nature of love: "If what they say it 'Nothing is forever' then what makes love the exception?" How the hell are relationships supposed to last? Then, the last line of the second verse: "Y'all don't want me here, you just wanna dance." The song completely shifts. No more soul searching and questioning the nature of love, rather we have typical rap inanities and so on. For example, "What's cooler than bein' cool? Ice Cold!" and "Shake it like a Polaroid picture!" It's the type of stuff that I usually make fun of rap for - but Andre 3000 knows exactly what he's doing. Tongue firmly in cheek, he's giving his audience exactly what they want to hear, and making fun of them at the same time, ala Devo's "Whip It" or Nirvana's "In Bloom". And not only are the lyrics brilliant, but the beat and chorus are incredibly catchy, if not good. So yes, I don't generally like rap, but OutKast has been growing on me.

I saw Garden State. I'm going to save the time and just tell you to go see it if you have a chance. It's very worth it, even if you have to sit in a squished back seat of a car filled with girls listening to N'Sync for half an hour. That's an exaggeration, but not too far.

On a final note, it turns out that 92% of all college men drink less than I do. Take that for what it's worth.