Milow “Ayo Technology (50 Cent Cover)”
A Belgian singer-songwriter remaking a 50 Cent/ JT/ Timbaland strip club jam in the form of an acoustic ballad strum-along!?! And it works (maybe even better than the original)!?! 26-year-old Milow accomplishes just that with this striking entry.
One of the original “Ayo Technology”‘s biggest flaws was that the sheer weight of the A-list crew behind it (pre-establishing it as a hit before it even dropped) sort of distracted away from the scary-cool intricacies of what the song could really be about: a tale of an introverted porn-addict on the verge of randy implosion at the mouth-drying gyrations of the talented pole dancer in front of him and how seeing her in a three-dimensional form could inform some dastardly deed later on. Neither 50 nor Justin could really be all that believable in bringing that creepy role to life since at the end of the day, they probably would get the girl to their respective cribs to bring their private fantasies to fruition with little to no hesitation.
For the relatively unknown Milow, that option isn’t there, so his take on “Technology” lends itself easier to the song’s inherent skin-crawling air, his every-man vocal yearns (and nerdy adoption of Fiddy’s “make it rain” prose) against the guitar-lain frame conveying the spooky intimacy of a computer screen ogler tracking down his ideal porn beauty at the local strip joint and mind-conjuring up some nefarious after-hours plot that involves him following his target to her home and really finding out “just how it be/ On top of me/ Backstokin’, sweat soakin’”. When he sings “I’ll be in this bitch ’til the club close” or howls “I’m tired of using technology/ I need you right in front of me”, the creepy desperation in his vocal paints him as a haunting figure who’s en route to doing something really really wrong.
Now if only we could get him to do a whole entire album’s worth of 50 Cent remakes; could you imagine how much more menacing tunes like “Wanksta” or “Many Men” would sound “unplugged”?
DL: “Ayo Technology (50 Cent Cover)” (alt)
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