Outkast's Andre 3000 is allergic to following trends. If the rest of the hip-hop nation is busy making videos showing off their spinners and pimp cups, you can bet Dre will be running in the other direction.

Luckily, his longtime collaborator and friend, video director Bryan Barber, totally gets Dre's style, which (somewhat) explains the look of the video for "Hey Ya!," the first single from The Love Below, Dre's half of Outkast's new double album, due Tuesday.

"I had that song about a year ago and one day I was sitting in the car with Dre and I said, 'Wouldn't it be great if we did a video with a spin on the Beatles' first appearance on 'Ed Sullivan?' " Barber said. "With the way the song is arranged, with all these different levels and characters, it is something we could pull off and it would be totally different from what anyone would expect Outkast to do."

Dre had never seen the Beatles footage, so the excitement of watching it more than half a dozen times with Barber gave him the idea for a fresh spin on the clip. "Dre was really into it. But he never wants to repeat anything," Barber said. "So he said, 'Let's not do Sullivan. Let's make it seem like the Americans invaded England.' That's why the Love Below Band is performing on an English show in the video, but eliciting the same kind of wild response the Beatles did when they first played Sullivan's program in February of 1964."

The cleverly edited clip melds the screeching-girl excitement of Beatlemania with the "Matrix"-like sight of the eight-man Andre 3000 supergroup performing the song. Though the high-energy rapper brings all the characters to life and makes it seem easy, the shoot required some mind-numbing work.

Filmed over two days in August on a soundstage at the Universal Studios lot in Los Angeles with a cast of more than 100 screaming female extras, Barber said the shoot was fun, but grueling. "The girls were so energetic and they loved the song so much that they stayed after they were done and watched Dre's performance," the director said. "It wasn't like they were running for the door right after they were done."

While the extras were merely expected to get excited and "shake it like a Polaroid picture," Dre had to perform the song top to bottom 23 times, said Barber, who also directed the clips for Outkast's "The Whole World" and "Land of a Million Drums."

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