Round of 64: (29) Outkast - Hey Ya vs. (36) Oasis - Champagne Supernova Bracket

Round one is here. 64 songs from 1960 to 2022. What song will come out on top? First few rounds will be posted in batches of four Mondays and Thursdays.

NOTICE: PLEASE DO NOT VOTE UNLESS YOU'VE HEARD BOTH SONGS. THEY'RE LIKE THREE MINUTES EACH IT ISN'T DIFFICULT.

For this matchup, we start with:

(29) Outkast - Hey Ya

vs.

(36) Oasis - Champagne Supernova

 

hmm a song that isn't a top 10 outkast song or the best oasis song, gee i wonder

this won't be close

 

“Hey Ya” is great, obviously, but c’mon, only one of these songs is about slowly walking down the hall faster than a cannonball.

 

"Champagne Supernova" is an easy pick for me. Never been a huge fan of "Hey Ya".

 

An impossible feat I refuse to condone

 

Hey Ya is one of the best pop songs ever written. Champagne Supernova is average at best. These results are baffling.

 

Nah, I’ve done it.

 

we know craig, we've seen the strava numbers

 

Champagne Supernova ranks higher on my personal all time list and I voted for it, but Hey Ya is a perfect pop song and one of the most iconic songs of the early 2000s - would not be a horrendous injustice if it were to advance.

 

Ban-worthy post, IMO.

 

Which part? Hey Ya is absolutely on a ballot for best pop song since I've been born, and Champagne Supernova is the only song I don't really defend when people come for Oasis. Wonderwall is the better of the big two, and Don't Look Back in Anger and Live Forever are their best imo. I'm not too hot on them as a whole, but the other songs I mention at least don't leave me scratching my head at why people like them so much.

 

Always found Hey Ya overrated. Pour me a glass of that champagne baby

 

Agreed on “Hey Ya,” disagree on one of the great epic album finales being just average. “Don’t Look Back in Anger” was the Oasis song on my ‘90s ballot, but “Champagne Supernova” absolutely would have been my next Oasis pick.

 

It's fine. It's not a bad song by any means but I am reaching for 5-7 other Oasis songs before it

 

"Champagne Supernova" is a really good ballad. "Hey Ya" STILL sounds thrillingly original all these years later and is the defining song of its decade. Going Outkast.

 

hey ya isn't better than BOB or ms. jackson or rosa parks or so fresh, so clean or liberation or aquemini or

you get the point.

 

It is better than all of those except maybe BOB. What a wild list to make your argument haha, at least say Elevators. So Fresh So Clean? Might as well throw The Whole World on the list

 

Hey Ya is the best Outkast single (Sorry, Ms. Jackson) and Champaign Supernova is only the 3rd best single from its album.

 

Bombs Over Baghdad absolutely smokes Hey Ya

 

I remember not being very big into it when it first came out as as a 12/13 year old, but did gain an appreciation for it as I got older. Seeing it live at Firefly was great, it was one of the most fun songs of the set for sure. Crowd was super into it.

But Hey Ya is just one of the quintessential early 2000's songs. I still remember the first time I heard it on the radio and then talking about it in my 10th grade biology class with my friends, I was like yo what's that song that's out now that's just like hey yaaa and has the little keyboard riff do do do dooo and they were like yeah it's just called Hey Ya haha. Went home and downloaded that shit on limewire or kazaa or grokster or whatever I was using at the time.

Still an essential song today. Overplayed, but in the right context/party situation, it's still so awesome.

 

Hey Ya isn’t just a once in a career song for an artist to release. It’s like a once in a lifetime pop song to be around for the release of. I struggle to think of a more massive, perfect and all consuming pop song go come out since.

 

I think basically the only contender is Mr. Brightside. Kinda wild that those two songs came out within a year or so of each other haha, as they're basically two of the first songs you think of when you think of the early-mid 2000s pop music.

 

Huge for sure but Hey Ya had my mom out there buying Outkast records. Idk if you got many people genre hopping to rock with Brightside. Maybe! I just know a ton of kids who weren’t into hip hop who adored Hey Ya

 

In a weird way, Mr. Brightside feels closer to peak Hey Ya in the last 5-10 years than it did on release. Probably an equally big song all things considered, but its longevity helps its argument more than how big it was when it dropped. Emmitt Smith Barry Sanders shit.

None of the songs I can think of as Hey Ya zeitgeist level songs since feel as big. Call Me Maybe? Shake it Off? Nah

 

Yeah, “Mr. Brightside” had pretty remarkable legs. Nowhere near the hit “Hey Ya” was in the moment, but they ended up with a similar cultural profile.

“Old Town Road” is probably the closest thing since in terms of seismic cultural ubiquity, but that one feels more like a fad in retrospect and less like an all-time classic.