"Hell Yes" is a song by

Beck Beck David Hansen (born Bek David Campbell; July 8, 1970) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He rose to fame in the early 1990s with his Experimental music, experimental and Lo-fi music, lo-fi style, and became ...

, released as the third and final single from his 2005 album ''

Guero ''Guero'' is the ninth studio album by American musician Beck, released on March 29, 2005, by Interscope Records. It was produced with John King and Mike Simpson of the Dust Brothers, who had worked with Beck on his 1996 album ''Odelay'', as wel ...

''. A remix version by 8-Bit entitled "Ghettochip Malfunction (Hell Yes)" appears on the '' Hell Yes'' EP and ''

Guerolito ''Guerolito'' is the second remix album by Beck, released in 2005. It features all of the songs from regular edition of '' Guero'' in remixed forms by a variety of artists, with the addition of "Clap Hands", originally found on the special limite ...

'' and was released as a single.

Christina Ricci Christina Ricci ( ; born February 12, 1980) is an American actress. Known for playing unusual characters with a dark edge, Ricci predominantly works in independent productions, but has also appeared in numerous box office hits. She has receiv ...

provides the female voice in the track. The song samples

Ohio Players Ohio Players is an American funk band, most popular in the 1970s. They are best known for their songs "Fire (Ohio Players song), Fire" and "Love Rollercoaster", and for their erotic album covers that featured nude or nearly nude women. Many of t ...

' "Far East Mississippi".

Music video

The

music video A music video is a video of variable duration, that integrates a music song or a music album with imagery that is produced for promotion (marketing), promotional or musical artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a m ...

for "Hell Yes" features four QRIOs, developed by Sony Japan. The QRIO is designed to carry on conversations, adapt to its environment, and mimic human movements, including dance routines. Shots of Beck performing this song are imposed on the wall behind the QRIOs. At the time of the video shoot, there were only four working QRIOs in the world—all of which appear in this video.MTV: Beck Gets World's Only 'Dream Robots' Dancing To 'Hell Yes'
/ref> The video was directed by

Garth Jennings Garth Jennings (born 9 July 1972) is an English director, screenwriter and actor. Films he has directed include ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'', ''Son of Rambow'', ''Sing'', and ''Sing 2''. He co-founded the production company Hammer ...

Track listing

#"Ghettochip Malfunction (Hell Yes)" – 2:41 #"Hell Yes" (album version) – 3:17 #"Gucci Bag in Flames (Hell Yes)" – 2:41

Personnel

– vocals, bass guitar,

harmonica The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica inclu ...

vocoder A vocoder (, a portmanteau of ''voice'' and ''encoder'') is a category of speech coding that analyzes and synthesizes the human voice signal for audio data compression, multiplexing, voice encryption or voice transformation. The vocoder was ...

– voice *

The Dust Brothers The Dust Brothers are a pair of songwriters and producers consisting of E.Z. Mike ( Michael Simpson) and King Gizmo ( John King). They are famous for the sample-based music they produced in the 1980s and 1990s, and specifically for their work o ...

– production, drums and samples

References

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* {{authority control Beck songs 2005 singles Songs written by Beck Song recordings produced by Dust Brothers 2005 songs Songs written by John King (record producer) Songs written by Michael Simpson (producer)

Music video

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