11/4 in Hey Ya?

Arsillus wrote: Astaroth wrote: Odd24 wrote: Arsillus wrote: penguindf12 wrote: You've all probably heard the hip-hop song "Hey Ya" on the radio, right? Just today I found something that said it's in 11/4 on a site, and I went back and listened to it (my friend has their Cd) and it is in 11/4! Weird! This is the first odd time signature #1 hit since Money! Hopefully OutKast will do more stuff like this in the future...maybe... I guess this means OutKast needs to be in the Archives. They are so prog! If so...then Kate Bush, Simon & Garfunkel & the Beatles are prog too. Just listen respectively to Egypt, America and Hapiness is a warm gun and I can even mention more examples (which I will not do because that will be a very very long story...) well , a lot of people say that the beatles are prog. except for their radio hits I had only listen to a few song of them. I like "strawberry fields" a lot. Can someone recommend me songs of the beatles that are closer to prog? (sorry for my bad english, I forget all my classes)     Try "Revolver." It is excellent.

thx!

goose wrote: It's not that rare for tunes in 4/4 to have the odd bar in 2/4, eg. leading to the chorus or something like that. It's not that common either, but by no means unheard of.

This is correct. In the end of the sixties and during the seventies it was rather common to do this. Nowadays I get the feeling it is getting obsolete, it is not done as often as it used to be done (just like progrock sometimes seems to be). But maybe there will be a revival, who knows (another Woodstock???). I think Outkast sets a step in the right direction. I wasn't very fond of "Miss Jackson" (only for the emotional irony maybe) but I liked the song "Hey ya" the first time that I heard it.