The meaning of OW!

Today I was walking downtown in Winston-Salem, and I heard this behind me:

SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE YOUR BOOTY

WOOOO YEAH SHAKE THAT BOOTY

YEAH BOOTY SHAKIN’ OWWWW

and I thought, “surely he isn’t saying that to me!”

But then it kept getting closer…

And then he was beside me! But he just kept walking and singing!

Then he looked at me and said SHAKE YOUR BOOOTAY……OWWWWW!

And I didn’t know what to say, so I said “who me?”

And he went on the longest rant about how he wishes he knew what they meant when they said OOOOWWW! and how he was so young when that song came out, but one day he was going to get enough money for that CD and he was going to figure out what they meant when they said OOOOWWW!

And then we got to a crosswalk, and he went OOWWW! one last time and went the other way.

It was one of my favorite moments ever.