"Hell Yes" is a song by
Beck, 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 provides the female voice in the track. The song samples
Ohio Players' "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 promotional or musical artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a music marketing device ...
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
* Beck – vocals, bass guitar, harmonica, 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 ...
* Christina Ricci – 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
See also
* QRIO
References
External links
*
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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)