The Remake of Ayo Technology

The Ayo Technology (2009) song by country singer Milow is a remake version of 50 Cent and Justin Timberlake’s original song of the same name, which was released in 2007. When I listen to the original version of “Avo Technology” many different thoughts and feelings occur. The first thing I think about is being in at the club sitting at the bar looking for a sexy girl that can move her body exotically. As I continue to listen to the lyrics and beat of the tune I start to feel the need to go find a girl(who can dance exotically) and go dance with her and maybe share a drink. Continuing to listen I suddenly feel the need to just be with a female in a general. Although the melody of the song is mellow, I get that club feeling, that I want to dance and move. Every time I listen to the original a feeling of being at a party always comes to my mind and I can feel the music and the beat through my body. There are several messages for me in this song, one was that someone was looking for a female maybe a stripper/dancer or something of that sort, who they had an imagine off, but was far away physically so the only method of seeing her was through technology. Another message, was that the girl dancing was teasing the man behind the “technology”, with the shape of her body and the way she was moving it, hence in the lines “She knows how to move and seduce you” and “She works it girl, she works the pole, she’s fine as hell and she’s about the dough”. These lyrics almost confirm that girl in the song is a stripper. I finally concluded that the feelings between the man and the woman were mutual because many times in the song the lyrics “she wants it” is repeated over and over, so to me it is implied that that she wanted him as much as he wanted her. In the Milow version of Ayo Technology ,the lyrics are the same but the themes and feelings are different. When I listened to this version the song sent a message of feeling stressed over a beautiful girl and that he was singing about a ex-girlfriend. Milow’s version also made me feel tired and depressed while listening to the song.. The message as well changes in this version and the girl in the songs is portrayed here is not a dancer/stripper but the girl of his dreams. She is more of a fantasy girl that can do everything for you and “knows how to seduce you” , which are the same lines but due to the tone and melody of the song the mean seems to be different. Also when this artist talks about technology I believe he is using it as a metaphor to mean that she is out of this world because she’ll provide for your every need, she’ll even work the “pole”. Although the lyrics are the same in both versions of the song the tone and the message gives the listener two different feelings which after analyzing both archetypes occur in literature.

URL for Hip Hop Version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na4x2Uwflmg

URL for County Version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE9IchvpOPk