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Today is Hey Day at Auburn University, a friendly tradition dating to the 1940s… and that just so happens to have been immortalized in song by Bjork–that Bjork, actress and internationally renowned Icelandic “queen of experimental pop.” True story. At least Auburn grad Mia Dentice thinks it’s true.
After all, the song is called “Hey.” And the lyrics to the chorus (translated from the Icelandic) are “Hey! Hey! I said Hey! Hey! Hey!” And the song was released in Sept. 1989, 11 months after Bjork and her former band, The Sugarcubes, riding the strength of their first international single, “Birthday,” played Auburn along with Living Colour as part of MTV’s New Music College Tour the day before Hey Day 1988.