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
I liked those songs. Might have been a different story if they had a videos and emerged in the days of SLAAAYYY QUEEEN twitter
― bricc baby hitlo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 13 November 2015 20:49 (eight years ago) link
Those were sad, sour times.
― thread of getting sw0le and lena jokes (Eric H.), Friday, 13 November 2015 20:59 (eight years ago) link
i was reluctant to listen to this cause she sounded awful to me on that janet feature but this is, perfectly great? can't tell if it will become a smash or if the hook will dig in as deep as the classics but it sounds like good missy elliott music. and yeah this beat is better than any timbo beat in how many years?
― flopson, Friday, 13 November 2015 21:41 (eight years ago) link
Rap Genius seems to think the chorus is about Miley Cyrus
Missy is all too aware of the impact and influence someone of that stature can have on the youth.
― bricc baby hitlo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 13 November 2015 22:15 (eight years ago) link
― bricc baby hitlo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, November 13, 2015 3:49 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i feel like it's been the days of SLAAAYYY QUEEEN twitter for more than three years tho?
― flopson, Friday, 13 November 2015 22:16 (eight years ago) link
This has been sneaking up on my brain a lot lately. Pharrell's verse continues to not grow on me though. How's it doing out there in the world?
― Doctor Casino, important war pigeon (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 24 December 2015 03:57 (eight years ago) link
i heard it on corporate terrestrial radio, it sounded good in my recent-make subcompact sedan driving down a freeway
― ecclesiastes nutz (m bison), Thursday, 24 December 2015 04:08 (eight years ago) link
I never hear the radio, but I know they're using it in a Microsoft commercial.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 24 December 2015 04:10 (eight years ago) link
microsoft commercials are where most children access recent pop releases these days anyway
― ecclesiastes nutz (m bison), Thursday, 24 December 2015 04:11 (eight years ago) link
i have heard it on the radio a couple times, but always in the late after-midnight hours, which is when they tend to play songs by new "unproven" artists :\
― dyl, Thursday, 24 December 2015 08:54 (eight years ago) link
i like the single though i continue to loathe pharrell. its the kind of thing i almost expect someone to tell me was produced by a non hip hop producer. or some non-current, non-american, producer. kind of a hark back to under construction. i dont think shes exactly an albums artist, but id rank her albums thus - Miss E... So Addictive, Supa Dupa Fly, Da Real World. not sure about the last three, but the cookbook is prob the worst (though even that has lose control so...).
― StillAdvance, Thursday, 24 December 2015 11:09 (eight years ago) link
I haven't heard radio since my vehicle's been out of commision but this is the song I've seen the best reaction to in clubs in the past couple months.
― The Reverend, Monday, 25 January 2016 21:37 (eight years ago) link
oops pulled this from bookmarks and thought this thread was current oh well
I'm shrugging at this but if it gets us closer to album release then yay
http://pitchfork.com/news/63400-listen-to-missy-elliotts-pep-rally/
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 7 February 2016 18:21 (eight years ago) link
oof, I want to like this more than I do but it just kinda keeps going on.
― the thirteenth floorior (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 7 February 2016 18:27 (eight years ago) link
Still better than either of the 2012 singles, so I consider it a win.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 7 February 2016 19:49 (eight years ago) link