Snap Judgment: 50 Cent and Justin Timberlake's 'Ayo Technology' video
Aug 3, 2007, 07:34 PM | by Chris Schonberger
Categories: Music
Greetings from the future: London, 2084. After defrosting from their cryogenic chambers, mega-billionaires 50 Cent, Justin Timberlake, and Timbaland have established an advanced Big Brother state to help them spy on lovely ladies in futuristic lingerie. Still looking for a lead single to launch Curtis into the charts, 50 takes a break from the grind and decides to find some girls. He locks onto his target with a sniper rifle — the new-age analog of Cupid's bow and arrow — causing her to suffer dangerously powerful orgasms in her car as she leads him to a top-secret strip club. Here, the ladies fruitlessly blindfold his bionic eyes while Timbaland uses pre-cog technology stolen from the set of Minority Report to cycle through all of the X-rated CCTV footage he can get his hands on. (So much easier than opening multiple tabs in Firefox!) Meanwhile, JT hasn't fully adapted to the relaxed sexual mores of the new era — he's still an old-fashioned, one-woman kind of guy, so he stakes out his favorite cyber-chick's house and uses his all-powerful mouse pad to dispense with the foreplay.
(Watch the obviously NSFW video below, then check in after the jump to discuss.)
Okay, PopWatchers, hop in the DeLorean and let's jet back to the present to discuss the frightening realities of FutureSex. I like the 8-bit Nintendo sound of Timba's beat, and even though his lyrics are as creepy as ever, 50 hits the fast-paced tempo pretty well. Director Joseph Kahn has a proven track record for pushing already sexual songs towards the pornographic end of the spectrum (Sisqó's "Thong Song," Britney's "Toxic"), but there is something sort of dark and vaguely disturbing about this vision of the future. Also, JT's trend of disintegrating into a sort of human Windows Media player is losing its cachet (see: "LoveStoned"). Still, I think there's a valuable lesson lurking in the Matrix, and it goes by the name of "TGIF." So take off your leather gloves, power down your computers, and go forth into the world. (Just don't spy on anyone changing, it's technically illegal.)
Enjoy the weekend, PopWatchers, and hope that Monday brings us a collaboration between Justin and Tay Zonday, another man with a bold vision of tomorrow's dystopia. Fingers crossed!
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