outkast
parker

I analyzed the song “Hey Ya” by Outkast and a cover of that song by a Indie performer by the name of Obidiah Parker. The two songs were very different in everything except for lyrics, where we’ll start. The lyrics of this song are actually profound and when listening to this pop song dropped by Outkast in the earlier years of the 21^st century you wouldn’t have thought that you truly unless you sat down and read through the lyrics wouldn’t be able to see the beauty of them, which is one of the reasons I liked the cover of this song so much, he concentrates more on this song in a lyrical fashion, almost as if it were a playwright where you read the lyrics and sing them based on their meaning not just to sing them to sound good, so that’s the lyrics. The melodies of this song for the most part vary very (haha) little, the cover stuck mainly to the melodic structure of the original song which is nice because it does give it that sort of poppy feel while remaining acoustic which you hardly ever see these days. Thirdly, and the thing that varied this songs the most was within the actually qualities found within the music, the rhythm was get the same a steady flow which captures the ear and forces the mind to lose itself, the intensity of the song is different and can be shown greatly through the cover because of the way he sings the chorus in the beginning and how he changes it and puts a lot of force behind the second chorus while in the original the intensity throughout it is maintained at a pretty high level. The pitch of the songs are around the same in the highs of the vocals so there isn’t much variation in pitch between the two. The timbre is the same as is the organization. The speed of the two has a great variation which I like about the cover because it allows you to really eat over those words and think about their meaning. Ultimately I actually like the cover of the song better because I am a sucker for acoustic and I feel it has a greater meaning which only moves the listener more.