the original track was one of the biggest tracks of the summer here in sweden and it's partly because of it's catchy lyrics. probably because of the not so discrete innuendo with the hook as well. it might have also be because the riff sounds like the strokes' "reptilia".
anyhow, i liked the tune but was fed up with it until this version appeared. mash up international's remix is a party tune with their distinct flavours. or their and their, it's kind of radioclit actually. but the biggest change apart from the new electronic groove is the verse added from club personality and blogger karin kakan hermansson.
also the fact that they edited the vocal and the lyrics to not being tongue in cheek about it's innuendo and played it up even more. kakan's verse helps even more and what she does is to spin the perspective from veronica's original where she talks about a guy into a girl on girl perspective.
this is not a stunt like "i kissed a girl" but kakan's upfront personality and the fact that she is lesbian, not bi-curious makes it more believable when she says lines such as "hon är ganska ung och hon ligger naken / reser mig up, hon kollar r&b baken / jag snodde dig från din dj-kille / han kunde inte ge dig det du ville / du vill komma i min mun, skriker för högt i ditt gamla flickrum"
(translation: she is pretty young and she's lying naked / i get up and she checks out my r&b-booty* / i stole you from your dj boyfriend / he couldn't give you what you wanted / you want to come in my mouth / screaming as loud as you can in your old girls room").
i'd like to point out that i don't care if the roleplay was reversed and it could be a guy-on-guy thing, if the track is banging then the track is banging. there is no such thing as "too gay" in music.
listen here (soundcloud)
*kakan hermansson bills herself rnb hermansson as a dj and calls her bootylicious behind as the r&b-booty.
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