Come anticipate Missy Elliott's Block Party album in 2012

did NOT expect this to be any good!

aaaah no one makes videos like missy tho

this is great!

rules, almost effortlessly, only I know how much hard work goes into seeming effortless

Pharrell seems like an afterthought, but he doesn't fuck it up. Big song, love it!

hot damn this delivers

Great video.

this might be my high point of the day

"pharrell doesn't fuck it up" + "effortless" + "great video" = all otm
i hope this gets huge

Pharrell seems like an afterthought, but he doesn't fuck it up. Big song, love it!

Pharrell is so all over the beats that the song feels like an alternate physical embodiment of him at times, which Missy is holding by the ankles and whirling around her head like it's nbd, this is just her motherfuckin' show

hoverboards fit missy's aesthetic so perfectly

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

o well

get out

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

this is what extended exposure to Drake and Future is doing to our leaders of tomorrow

dont try to pin this on drake man u know how i feel abt him

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, 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

this is way better than the previously leaked singles

also pharrell nice of u to send a puppet buddy

i am also not bowled over

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.

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

I am so fine with this.

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'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

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 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

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?

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.

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

i'm 100% on board. no one makes hip-hop 'fun' like Missy.

Missy + Dave Meyers has to be one of the greatest music video director/artist teams of all time.

Missy without Timbaland is like some real Elton John "I'm gonna write my own lyrics now" shit

finally, a timbaland bernie taupin equivalency.

this is great except for the pharrell verse.

Missy without Timbaland is like some real Elton John "I'm gonna write my own lyrics now" shit

v silly opinion given the cookbook

this song slaps

2.2 million watches in under 24 hours and i am only responsible for 30 or so

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

love it

v silly opinion given the cookbook

― 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

There are a bunch of good tracks on The Cookbook, and they're not the Timbo ones

nice to see Les Twins in the video, that's exactly as it should be.

my fav banger from the Cookbook still sounds great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrI-X4uKDIQ

There are a bunch of good tracks on The Cookbook, and they're not the Timbo ones

^^^

w/e The Cookbook is hands down her worst album and everyone knows this

sure, but even so it's still pretty good overall

"oh wow outkast is back together and they're making Idlewild 2?"

btw fake Timbaland might be preferable to real Timbaland these days.