"Hey, Soul Sister"is a song by AmericanrockbandTrain.It was written by lead singerPat Monahan,Amund Bjørklund,andEspen Lind.It was released as the lead single from the band's fifth studio album,Save Me, San Francisco(2009).
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Released | August 11, 2009 | |||
Recorded | 2009 | |||
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Genre | Pop rock | |||
Length | 3:37 | |||
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The song reached number three on theBillboardHot 100chart and is Train's highest-charting song to date. It was the top-selling song on theiTunes Storein 2010,[1]and the second overall best-selling song in the US in 2010.[2]It is also the band's most commercially successful single to date, reaching number one in 16 countries. The single received a11× platinumcertificationby theRecording Industry Association of America(RIAA) on October 5, 2022, signifying sales of over eleven million copies.[3]The live iTunes version of "Hey, Soul Sister" garnered aGrammy AwardforBest Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocalsat the53rd Annual Grammy Awards.The song was not eligible for any Grammy Award in theGeneral Field.
Background
editAt first, I tried to do it by using a guitar pick, and it didn't sound right. I had to go online and Google aukulelelesson and noticed they're not using picks at all; it's more of a flamenco style. Once I got that down, then it sounded like the real deal.[4]
—Lead guitarist Jimmy Stafford, on having to learn to play ukulele as requested by lead singer Patrick Monahan in the recording of "Hey, Soul Sister"
After collaborating with the Norwegian production duo Espionage (Espen Lind and Amund Bjørklund) in the writing and recording of the track "Brick by Brick", Train's lead singer Pat Monahan decided to record another track with the duo.[4]
I said, 'I want to write anINXS-y song. So, they started playing kind of an INXS-y song, and I wrote the song 'Hey, Soul Sister' to it and the melodies and started to sing it. And I said, 'Man, this just doesn't sound great to me.'
— Pat Monahan, on wanting to write a song in INXS' style.
One of the guys, Espen, who's like a huge star in Norway, picked up a ukulele, and said, 'Hey, how about this?' I said, 'Are you (kidding) me?' And it made the difference. It made my words dance. It made sense. These words were meant to dance with ukulele and not guitar.
— Pat Monahan
Composition
editThere's super catchy riffs and melodies in it, which I think are way more important that any production trick or great-sounding vocal production. It's kind of us going backward so we can go forward.
"Hey, Soul Sister" is a mid-tempopop rocksong. Written in thekeyofE major,[6]the beat is set incommon timeand composed in atempoof 97bpm.The song is characterized by a signature pattern played on a ukulele,[4]that follows a basic E5– B – C#m – A (I5– V – vi – IV) progression in theverse,tag andbridge,switching to an A – B – E5– B (IV – V – I5– V) progression in thechorus.The song's chord structure is arranged in an A B A B A B A form. It rhymes "sister" with "Mr. Mister."
Lyrically, Stafford admitted the inspiration for the song came about while Monahan was imagining whatBurning Manmust be like, and started penning lyrics inspired by the imagery he saw:[7]
The story lyrically, I’ve heard Pat talk about this in interviews. He’s always heard of Burning Man. Somewhere in Reno Nevada's desert, they do it every year. It’s this whole city in the desert that gets built for a festival that happens every year. They build a huge man out of wood and at the end of the festival they burn it. Pat had never been to Burning Man, but he had an image in his head of what it must be like. All these beautiful women dancing around the fire. That was the imagery he conjured up when he was writing the lyrics to, "Hey, Soul Sister." It’s a pretty big deal. Thousands and thousands of people go to it every year. People run around naked and I guess it’s a total crazy deal.
Monahan has since confirmed this in several radio interviews.[8][9]
Critical reception
edit"Hey, Soul Sister" has seen mixed reviews from music critics.
Positive reviews
editScott Mervis, writing for thePittsburgh Post-Gazette,praised the song as a welcome comeback from the band's hiatus, calling the track "joyous" and "bouncy".[10]
The writer forEclectic Music Loverlisted the song as #37 on his "100 Best Songs of the 2010s" list, praising its lyrics as "heartwarming" and "guaranteed to bring a smile to even the dourest face." The writer also called the music video "charming."[11]
Negative reviews
editThe Village Voicederided the song, quipping "'Hey Soul Sister' is an orgy where bad ideas trade STDs, and the most syphilitic brain-fart stumbled in drunk from aSmash Mouthshow... From Smash Mouth, Train picked up an earworm that burrowed into society's asshole, laid 4.7 million iTunes eggs, and gave birth to a grey cloud of banality that covers the Earth. "[12]Mother Jonesconcurred with theVillage Voice,approvingly quoting from theVillage Voice's review that "there is less soul in the entirety of Train than in the palest single member ofCollective Soul.'Hey, Soul Sister' is soul for people who refer to peanut butter and jelly as 'soul food.' It makesthe California Raisinslook like the second coming ofSly and the Family Stone.It's so white,Sarah Palinjust named it her running mate for 2012. "[13]
In a tamer review,Business Insidernamed "Hey, Soul Sister" the worst song of 2010 describing the song as a "saccharine, falsettoed ear-bleeder."[14]LA Weeklytook aim atPat Monahan's lyrical content, awarding "Hey, Soul Sister" places two through ten in its Top 10 worst lyrics of 2010 list.[15]
In a review ofJonathan Franzen's 2015 novelPurity,Slatewriter Ruth Graham criticized its final pages, which contain a scene about "Hey Soul Sister", and the titular character Purity Tyler calling it a "great song." Graham strongly opposed the song and its lyrical content and called the scene the worst part of the novel.[16]
Music video
editThe video was filmed in front of Chango Coffee at the corner of Morton Ave and Echo Park Ave. inEcho Park, Los Angeles, California.The video intercuts images of Train singing with a woman (Kiana Bessa Chastain) walking around her apartment and a man (actor Andrew Craghan) painting the words to the song on the landscape. Eventually the two meet each other in the street in front of the band.
Appearances in other media
editTrain performed the song on the showRed Eye w/ Greg GutfeldonFox Newswhich aired during the early morning broadcast on April 20, 2010.[17]They have also performed the song on numerous talk shows, includingThe Tonight Show with Jay Leno,[18]Live with Regis and Kelly,[18]The Ellen DeGeneres Show,[19]Lopez Tonight,andThe Howard Stern Show.[20]They also performed the song before the2010 Major League Baseball Home Run DerbyonESPN.Train performed the song atDick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve 2011.
It has also been played in several TV shows:CSI: NYin the episode "Second Chances",Hellcatsin its first episode, andMediumin chapter6x03"Pain Killer".It has also been played in the Canadian TV showBeing Erica,in chapter 3x11. "Hey, Soul Sister" can also be heard on "Ko'olauloa", the sixth episode of the rebootedHawaii Five-0,where it was sung and played live byAidan James.
The song was performed on ABC'sDancing with the Starson May 4, 2010, and onAmerica's Got Talenton July 21, 2010. A cover of the song was also performed by "Munch's Make Believe Band," the animatronic show located atChuck E. Cheese'srestaurants. TheDixie Chickscovered this song while on their 2010 tour withThe Eagles.
InFox's TV musical-comedy seriesGleethe song has been covered in the ninth episode ofseason two,"Special Education"(aired November 30, 2010) by actorDarren Criss(as his characterBlaine Anderson) singing the solo in a performance with the fictional show choirDalton Academy Warblers(voiced by all-malea cappellagroupBeelzebubs).[21]
"Hey, Soul Sister" was also covered by 2010X Factor AustraliawinnerAltiyan Childsfor hisself-titled debut album.Also inAustralia,it was performed by Robbie Anderson onThe Voice Kids.The song was performed byStreet Corner Symphonyon the second season of the television showThe Sing-Offduringepisode 2: "Songs From The Past 5 Years".In 2010, the dance troupe fromStrictly Come Dancingperformed a quickstep to the song and it was used in aSamsung3D TV commercial.[22]It was also used by Spanish telecommunications companyMovistarin commercials from their Latin America operations in 2010.
In October 2024, the American late-night TV seriesSaturday Night Livespoofed the song in a sketch titled “Forbidden Romance”, where a white man (portrayed byAndrew Dismukes) in aninterracial relationshipin the 1950s woos his disapproving parents by performing the song on ukulele, dedicating it to his black girlfriend (portrayed byEgo Nwodim). While his oblivious white parents are won over, his girlfriend's family, initially approving the relationship, change their mind and forbid it, to which his girlfriend agrees and dumps him.[23][24]
Chart performance
edit"Hey, Soul Sister" debuted at #98 on theBillboardHot 100for the week ended October 17, 2009, becoming their first charting single in five years. On the week of January 30, 2010, in its 16th week on the Hot 100 chart, "Hey, Soul Sister" leaped to #7 from #23 on an 81% digital single sales increase from the previous week, thus becoming Train's second career Top Ten hit on the chart. It reached #3 on theBillboardHot 100 in the week of April 10, 2010, and it is their highest on the chart to date, even surpassing their 2001 hit, "Drops of Jupiter",which peaked at #5. The song climbed to #1 on theHot Digital Songschart for the week of April 10, 2010, and stayed in the top spot for three weeks. As of the January 20, 2011, issue ofBillboard,"Hey, Soul Sister" had spent 22 weeks at number one on theAdult Contemporarychart.
The single sold 687,000 copies in 2009 which made it that year's #131 song. It went on to sell 3,319,000 more units in the first half of 2010 and 42 weeks after its release still stood at number 16 on the Hot 100 chart. By the end of December 2010, it had sold 4,310,000 digital copies, becoming the second biggest selling digital song of that year.[25]By the end of January 2011, it had sold over 5 million digital copies.[26]As of January 2014, the song had sold 6,417,000 digital units in the United States, one of the biggest-selling digital singles by a rock band sinceNielsen SoundScanbegan tracking download sales in 2003.[27]
BNA Records,acountry musiclabel owned by Sony Music, released the song to the country music format in June 2010. It debuted at #60 on theHot Country Songscharts for the week ended July 10, 2010.[28]
In addition to revitalizing Train's career in their native country, "Hey, Soul Sister" has also become a big international hit; it was #1 on the official Dutch and Australian singles charts for 7 weeks and 4[29]weeks, respectively, and also became their first Irish number one single. The single charted at #2 inNew Zealand(their highest in the country to date), and reached #3 on both the Canadian[30]and Belgian singles charts.[31]
On April 24, 2010, "Hey, Soul Sister" debuted on theUK Singles Chartat #64,[32]marking the band's first appearance on the chart since "She's On Fire" reached a peak of #49 in 2001. On May 2, 2010, the single climbed into the UK Top 40 at #36 and has since reached a peak of #18. It has been in the official charts for 79 weeks. In Canada the song became the sixth-best-selling of 2010 with 244,000 copies.[33]
Track listing
editCD single[34]
- "Hey, Soul Sister" – 3:36
- "The Finish Line" (Patrick Monahan,Sacha Skarbek) – 3:46
Digital download – remixes[35]
- "Hey, Soul Sister" (Karmatronic Radio Edit) – 3:40
- "Hey, Soul Sister" (Karmatronic Club Mix) – 6:45
- "Hey, Soul Sister" (Karmatronic Instrumental) – 6:45
- "Hey, Soul Sister" (Karmatronic Performance) - 3:23
- Hey, Soul Sister(Psyrex Remix) - 3:42
Credits and personnel
edit- Recording[36]
- Recorded at Kensaltown Recording Studios,London,England,Quad Studios,New York Cityand atSound City Studios,Los Angeles,California,United States
- Mixed at Indian River Studios,Merritt Island,Florida,United States
- Mastered at Sterling Sound,New York City,New York,United States
- Personnel[36]
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Charts
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Weekly chartsedit |
Monthly chartsedit
Year-end chartsedit
Decade-end chartsedit
All-time chartsedit
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Certifications
editRegion | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA)[104] | 15× Platinum | 1,050,000‡ |
Belgium (BEA)[105] | Gold | 15,000* |
Canada (Music Canada)[106] | Diamond | 800,000‡ |
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[107] | 2× Platinum | 180,000‡ |
Germany (BVMI)[108] | Platinum | 600,000‡ |
Italy (FIMI)[109] | 2× Platinum | 100,000‡ |
Mexico (AMPROFON)[110] | Platinum | 60,000* |
New Zealand (RMNZ)[111] | Platinum | 15,000* |
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[112] | 2× Platinum | 120,000‡ |
Sweden (GLF)[113] | Gold | 10,000‡ |
Switzerland (IFPISwitzerland)[114] | Gold | 15,000^ |
United Kingdom (BPI)[115] | 3× Platinum | 1,800,000‡ |
United States (RIAA)[3] | 11× Platinum | 11,000,000‡ |
*Sales figures based on certification alone. |
Release history
editCountry | Date | Format | Label |
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United States | August 11, 2009[116][non-primary source needed] | Digital download | |
January 26, 2010[citation needed] | Airplay | ||
July 12, 2010[citation needed] | Digital download — country version |
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