hoverboards fit missy's aesthetic so perfectly
― i made a scope for my laser musket out of some (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 12 November 2015 17:02 (eight years ago) link
speaking as a huge missy fan this song is not too good, she def sounds like shes been on the shelf for the better part of a decade and pharrells rapping is typically awful
― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 November 2015 17:06 (eight years ago) link
o well
― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 November 2015 17:08 (eight years ago) link
get out
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 12 November 2015 17:08 (eight years ago) link
i guess i cldve saved that post for later in the day when ppl had moved on to the forgetting stage of freaking out abt something mediocre then immediately forgetting
― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 November 2015 17:10 (eight years ago) link
this is what extended exposure to Drake and Future is doing to our leaders of tomorrow
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Thursday, 12 November 2015 17:11 (eight years ago) link
dont try to pin this on drake man u know how i feel abt him
― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 November 2015 17:13 (eight years ago) link
― lag∞n, Thursday, November 12, 2015 5:10 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
to be fair this did happen with those terrible missy singles a couple of years ago, but i am fairly sure this is legitimately good! we'll wait and see about greatness
― lex pretend, Thursday, 12 November 2015 17:14 (eight years ago) link
this is way better than the previously leaked singles
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 12 November 2015 17:22 (eight years ago) link
also pharrell nice of u to send a puppet buddy
― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 November 2015 17:27 (eight years ago) link
i am also not bowled over
― dyl, Thursday, 12 November 2015 17:43 (eight years ago) link
This seems like a self-conscious return to form (both song and video), like something that would have fit on "This is Not a Test." Not the best, but definitely welcome, and totally makes my day regardless.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 12 November 2015 17:43 (eight years ago) link
missy sounds pretty good on this but the beat isn't really doing anything for me, it gives me bad "pon de floor" vibes like 5 years after the fact
im trying to figure out where it fits.... this is a little too close to the aborted gwen stefani comeback i think
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 12 November 2015 17:43 (eight years ago) link
I am so fine with this.
― thread of getting sw0le and lena jokes (Eric H.), Thursday, 12 November 2015 17:46 (eight years ago) link
one way in which it is not like the aborted Gwen Stefani comeback is that Missy doesn't sound like a constipated chimp on this
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Thursday, 12 November 2015 17:59 (eight years ago) link
i'm amazed missy's flow is as good as it is considering how galumphing her voice has been on...everything she's released in the past decade
― lex pretend, Thursday, 12 November 2015 18:02 (eight years ago) link
how come "stickin out your tongue" like so slightly off beat? ahh it's driving me mad!
I hear that falling squarely on 3; what do you mean by "slightly off beat"?
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Thursday, 12 November 2015 18:09 (eight years ago) link
I get the exact same feeling, maybe she's just a tiny bit slow or the way she phrases the syllables makes it sound like another rhythm, not syncopated but another tempo
― niels, Thursday, 12 November 2015 18:23 (eight years ago) link
woah, this is good! sometimes feels a little bit empty, mix-wise - like the vocals are too loud for it just being them and the beat - but i think it works. ok sure, it's a self-conscious return to form, delivering as many rhythmic and vocal surprises as you're hoping to find in a missy record... but those are still good things, and just as enjoyable to the ears as they were a decade ago. it's a first hearing of course, but i'm inclined to say it's her best single since the under construction run?
― Frump 'n' Dump (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 12 November 2015 18:40 (eight years ago) link
ok that might be a bit much. i think i like "lose control," "pass that dutch" and "i'm really hot" more when i'm hearing them than when i'm thinking about them.
― Frump 'n' Dump (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 12 November 2015 18:42 (eight years ago) link
It's solid and she's just so great to listen to as a performer. Ideas hitting you from every direction. Her voice seems deeper than it used to be? Suits her
― Leonard Pine, Thursday, 12 November 2015 19:22 (eight years ago) link
i'm 100% on board. no one makes hip-hop 'fun' like Missy.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 12 November 2015 22:14 (eight years ago) link
Missy + Dave Meyers has to be one of the greatest music video director/artist teams of all time.
― JRN, Thursday, 12 November 2015 23:24 (eight years ago) link
Missy without Timbaland is like some real Elton John "I'm gonna write my own lyrics now" shit
― bricc baby hitlo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 13 November 2015 00:22 (eight years ago) link
finally, a timbaland bernie taupin equivalency.
― mattresslessness, Friday, 13 November 2015 00:27 (eight years ago) link
this is great except for the pharrell verse.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 13 November 2015 03:20 (eight years ago) link
v silly opinion given the cookbook
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 13 November 2015 03:29 (eight years ago) link
this song slaps
― Rich Homie Quan Poor Homie Quan (m bison), Friday, 13 November 2015 03:54 (eight years ago) link
2.2 million watches in under 24 hours and i am only responsible for 30 or so
― i made a scope for my laser musket out of some (forksclovetofu), Friday, 13 November 2015 05:09 (eight years ago) link
ahhh yes more than anything I am happy that people are paying attention! Feel like this could have been even bigger if it had happened a little closer to the Superbowl bit she did.
Also I love this obvs even the Pharrell part
― art baengels (monotony), Friday, 13 November 2015 05:36 (eight years ago) link
love it
― the late great, Friday, 13 November 2015 05:46 (eight years ago) link
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Thursday, November 12, 2015 10:29 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
even more accurate opinion given the cookbook
― bricc baby hitlo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 13 November 2015 06:11 (eight years ago) link
There are a bunch of good tracks on The Cookbook, and they're not the Timbo ones
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Friday, 13 November 2015 07:30 (eight years ago) link
nice to see Les Twins in the video, that's exactly as it should be.
― expertly crafted referential display name (Jordan), Friday, 13 November 2015 19:04 (eight years ago) link
my fav banger from the Cookbook still sounds great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrI-X4uKDIQ
― expertly crafted referential display name (Jordan), Friday, 13 November 2015 19:07 (eight years ago) link
^^^
― Οὖτις, Friday, 13 November 2015 19:09 (eight years ago) link
w/e The Cookbook is hands down her worst album and everyone knows this
― bricc baby hitlo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 13 November 2015 19:10 (eight years ago) link
sure, but even so it's still pretty good overall
― Οὖτις, Friday, 13 November 2015 19:12 (eight years ago) link
"oh wow outkast is back together and they're making Idlewild 2?"
― bricc baby hitlo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 13 November 2015 19:14 (eight years ago) link
btw fake Timbaland might be preferable to real Timbaland these days.
― expertly crafted referential display name (Jordan), Friday, 13 November 2015 19:15 (eight years ago) link
that is fair
― bricc baby hitlo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 13 November 2015 19:15 (eight years ago) link
"worst album" is meaningless when four out of your discography's six are straight-up classics and none of them are outright bad, though the cookbook is better than this is not a test by a long way and in general pretty underrated ("bad man"!!!!!)
― lex pretend, Friday, 13 November 2015 19:17 (eight years ago) link
The Cookbook is her worst *listen to "Meltdown" for seventh time*
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 13 November 2015 19:17 (eight years ago) link
TISNAT! is my favorite after the debut. I love the spareness: each song with a single ear-catching beat, some of Missy's best smut and party fodder.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 13 November 2015 19:18 (eight years ago) link
Yeah they're all classics. How is this even in dispute?
― thread of getting sw0le and lena jokes (Eric H.), Friday, 13 November 2015 19:19 (eight years ago) link
"let me fix my weave" and "spelling bee" alone justify TINAT
― lex pretend, Friday, 13 November 2015 19:22 (eight years ago) link
she really did a great job NOT releasing a terrible album in the decade when she fell off
man, you guys remember that Cookbook shit way more fondly than me. i was so bent out of shape at it
― bricc baby hitlo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 13 November 2015 19:23 (eight years ago) link
also timbaland is a major hack right now anyway who really wants to hear him produce more music
― J0rdan S., Friday, 13 November 2015 20:42 (eight years ago) link
the two of them did the celebrated comeback thing three years ago and nobody cared about those songs, the entire premise of this conversation is flawed
― J0rdan S., Friday, 13 November 2015 20:43 (eight years ago) link