First Team Meeting: Song choice

After the first meeting with my team partner we were considering using a well known song, however not one from the recent charts. We needed an up-beat feel good song that the majority of the public would know well and therefor enjoy listening to more than one that they are unfamiliar with.

During this process we came up with a few different songs which included:

• Mambo No.5 by Lou Bega (1999)
• Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go by WHAM (1984)
• Dancing In The Moonlight by Toploader (1999)
• Hey Ya! by Outkast (2003)

Despite Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go being voted (through ITV)the UK's 13th most favorite number 1 chart song from the 80's, allowing us to use it's popularity as an advantage, we decided that not only was this too big of a reputation to put at steak but it also just wasn't the right song in relation to what we had in mind.

 We came to the conclusion that 'Hey Ya' by outkast was the right song for our ideas and fitted the spec well; Up - Beat, feel good and well known, with easy sing a-long lyrics.

Here is the original music video for 'Hey Ya'