German #3: Milow "Ayo Technology"

Poker Face is still number 1 and this week Lady Gaga's other single, Just Dance, has entered the top 10, too.

So, I considered looking at Peter Fox' Haus am See on 8 which I already praised a little last week, decided against it, then thought about Razorlight's Wire to Wire on number 4, which I recommended already before, decided against it and eventually thought I could talk about the Belgian singer/sogwriter Milow and his cover version of Ayo Technology.



The original version of this song was released by 50 Cents featuring Timbaland and Justin Timberlake. Nevertheless, Milow's interpretation is much stronger than the half a Dollar performance (which is - given the current exchange rate to the Euro - not such a big surprise).
The girls in the original video are hotter, though. But no-one would expect a simple guitar playing Belgian suit to beat an East Coast rapper and a grown up boygroup star from Memphis, Tennessee, when it comes to haul in a truckload of bitches, have them get naked and dance and crawl all over them.

So, in Milow's version, there are okay girls in cheap, black underwear and in their midst is their golden queen. He sings his bit and starts sweating and drooling all over as the girls are crawling catlike closer and closer to his stool. Then they lick him, feast over him and have him fall in this sort of coma, just before the chief mistress wants to finally have her way with him.
A sad blurp of royal jelly remains his final statement in this cruel world of girls who sit on top of him, who want it and whom he gotta give it to...

Now, before you scratch your head in wonder: the lyrics are about the sadness of virtual reality replacing the real person, the real emotion and excitement, and the real sex.
Very relevant, of course, and 50 Cent's version was making this already quite clear. Milow's skill is to make a rather recent song, which in principle should be still in everybody's ear, into something different and actually better.

Nice...