Identity said:

Wish Pharrell would clear space on his timetable from producing rubbish like this. WTF, without a doubt.

I'd say the BULK of his work falls into this category.

Graycap23 said:

Identity said:

Wish Pharrell would clear space on his timetable from producing rubbish like this. WTF, without a doubt.

I'd say the BULK of his work falls into this category.

if you dont like dont listen problem solved.

IstenSzek said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...ismegistus

Thanks

getxxxx said:

Writer(s)	Melissa Elliott
Producer(s)	Pharrell Williams

Which begs the question.. is Timbaland on this project?

getxxxx said:

Graycap23 said:

I'd say the BULK of his work falls into this category.

if you dont like dont listen problem solved.

That certainly isn't a problem 4 me.

I dig Missy and was hoping 4 better material.

Not happening.

I remember an interview from after the Superbowl when everyone was like "where's the new album, Missy??" and she said she takes her time and doesn't throw out "microwave records".

But after a week of listening to "Where They From", this song feels half-baked.

Cinny said:

I remember an interview from after the Superbowl when everyone was like "where's the new album, Missy??" and she said she takes her time and doesn't throw out "microwave records".

But after a week of listening to "Where They From", this song feels half-baked.

Yep.

getxxxx said:

Writer(s)	Melissa Elliott
Producer(s)	Pharrell Williams

I also can't believe she wrote Pharrell's corny verse.

Missy Elliott will receive the inaugural Innovator award at the 2015 Billboard Women in Music ceremony. The Innovator honor recognizes an artists whose masterful body of work has consistently broken new ground in pop music.

Missy Elliott has achieved six top five albums on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart -- the most of any female rap artist -- including three No. 1s: Supa Dupa Fly, her 1997 debut, Da Real World and Miss E …So Addictive. Collectively, her albums have sold 7.6 million copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen Music. Elliott is also currently on the cover of Billboard magazine.

“Missy Elliott is a once-in-a-generation artist and producer whose artistic brilliance and creative vision have transformed pop and hip hop music,” said Janice Min, co-president and chief creative officer of Guggenheim Media’s Entertainment Group, which consists of Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter. “It’s such a thrill to make this announcement while Missy is on our current Billboard cover after a decade-long hiatus. There are few artists more respected by her peers and more creative. We are proud to honor her with the inaugural Women in Music Innovator award.”

In addition to Elliott's Innovator honor, Lady Gaga will be presented with the Woman of the Year honor at this year’s Women in Music event, which takes place on Dec. 11 in New York. Loretta Lynn, Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, Alabama Shakes’ Brittany Howard, Fifth Harmony, Kelsea Ballerini and Lana Del Rey will also be honored. Lovato, Gaga, Gomez and Howard will all perform.

Billboard's Women in Music ceremony will air on Lifetime Dec. 18. The event is held alongside Billboard’s Women in Music list, which names the year’s 50 most powerful female executives in the industry.

“If I wanted to do The Missing Files of Missy Elliott, I have probably six albums just sitting there,” she says. She’s the first to admit that she didn’t think the break was going to be this long. “But it was much needed,” she says. “People hadn’t realized that I haven’t just been an artist, I’ve been a writer and a producer for other artists. When you’re writing that much, your brain is like a computer. You have refresh it.”

Elliott says the last vacation she took before her hiatus was “in mid-2000,” and she believes that the grueling schedule took a serious toll on her health. After she began losing an alarming amount of weight in 2008, she was diagnosed with Graves’ disease, an autoimmune disorder that affects the thyroid. “It causes hair loss, your eyes bulge,” she says. “My blood pressure was always up from just overworking.”

Sharaya J, a talented rapper-dancer whom Elliott signed to her Goldmind label, began working with Elliott around this time and witnessed the impact that the disease had on the MC. “It started to change her way of life,” she says. “There were physical changes, extreme headaches, extreme weight loss. What that does to a person, being a public figure and knowing people are looking, judging? That’s a tough thing.”

With the aid of medication, Elliott eventually managed to get her condition under control. But in some ways, she wasn’t at ease in the spotlight to begin with. “She is a force, but she’s also shy, really shy,” says Sharaya. “I always say to her, ‘When I look at you as an adult, I can see you as a little kid.’ ” In fact, the anxiety that Elliott wrestles with began sometime in childhood. “I was always feisty, always that kid that would be on the porch with a hairbrush singing or rapping,” she says. “I got more shy as I got older and realized people could be laughing at me, or judging me.”

Elliott credits the beginning of her re-emergence to a call that she got from Williams in 2014. “He was just, ‘Yo, whatcha doing?’ ” she recalls. “And I was like, ‘I’m doing some music here and there.’ ” Williams suggested they get into the studio, an idea she took especially seriously because of the timing. “ ‘Happy,’ ” she says with a laugh, “was, like, on fire right then.”

It took a few months for Williams to carve out time in his schedule, but eventually he flew Elliott out to Los Angeles for six days of highly productive sessions. “I was willing to assist her in any way possible,” says Williams, “all the way down to doing music if that’s what she wanted me to do.”

But his wasn’t the only life-changing phone call Elliott got in 2014. Katy Perry’s team floated the idea of having her come out during the Super Bowl halftime show -- what the MC assumed would be a quick cameo. Then Perry got on the phone. “She said, ‘I want you to do three of your records,’ ” recalls Elliott. “And I’m just like, ‘Did she say three?’ ”

After rumors of the surprise began to circulate online, Elliott’s anxiety mounted. The night before the game, it metastasized into a full-blown panic attack: “Like, IVs in my arm, everything,” she says. “Nobody knew.” The day of the show, she remembers being just offstage and hearing the opening riff of “Get Ur Freak On.” “I said, ‘If I can get over this step, then I know all my dance steps will be on point,’ ” she recalls. “I know it was nothing but the grace of God that lifted me up and took me through that performance.” (Says Sharaya: “Me and Missy are really spiritual people. We wait on God to show us the way.”) Elliott sold nearly 350,000 song downloads by the end of the following week alone.

By then, “WTF” was the clear pick for her next single. But the video required more time than anyone expected. It took four months just to get the puppets made, and Elliott and co-director Meyers later decided to go with an even more ambitious concept than they had originally envisioned. “We did so many different treatments,” she says. “It was hard because we’re like, ‘We did that before.’ ‘Oh, that ain’t hot.’ We knew that we just had to push the envelope.”

Elliott doesn’t watch much TV, and when she listens to the radio it’s usually an underground hip-hop station rather than chart-busting hits, which she thinks have grown safe and same-y. “There are some great records out there,” she says. “But it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to hear that a lot of songs sound alike.” She does like Kendrick Lamar, Drake and J. Cole. When asked about Nicki Minaj, who is clearly influenced by Elliott, she mock-innocently replies, “Oh, she is?” (Speaking to her influence generally, she adds, “Unfortunately, breaking news, there is only one Missy.”) Still, she would love to see more woman MCs on the charts -- when she was coming up, that was much more common. “It was me, [Lil’] Kim, Lauryn [Hill], Eve, Foxy [Brown], Trina,” she says. “There’s room for so many. It’s important.”

As for what’s next, Elliott wants to tour, which she hasn’t done in a major way in years. “I’ve done mad shows, but my last amazing tour was me, Beyoncé and Alicia [Keys, in 2004]. I’d love to do one with B.” And when will the album be out? “I want to say 2016 but I don’t want to give a time. Nowadays you say a time, they’ll stone you.”

It’s not the first time she has promised an album -- she scrapped a planned LP in 2008 -- but she promises that things are different now (“Yes, yes, definitely”). “Missy is careful about not releasing stuff unless she feels it in her gut,” says Sharaya. “She wasn’t going to make a move until she knew she had a record that was going to change the world.” Ask Williams what Elliott has in store, and he sums it up in two words: “Get ready.”

Cinny said:

getxxxx said:

Writer(s)	Melissa Elliott
Producer(s)	Pharrell Williams

I also can't believe she wrote Pharrell's corny verse.

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Yeah. She could've done without his verse. It adds no flavor to the track. His production and feature is probably just the ripple effect from his recent success. I could be wrong, but the music cynic in me tells me otherwise.

getxxxx said:

“If I wanted to do The Missing Files of Missy Elliott, I have probably six albums just sitting there,” she says. She’s the first to admit that she didn’t think the break was going to be this long. “But it was much needed,” she says. “People hadn’t realized that I haven’t just been an artist, I’ve been a writer and a producer for other artists. When you’re writing that much, your brain is like a computer. You have refresh it.”

Elliott says the last vacation she took before her hiatus was “in mid-2000,” and she believes that the grueling schedule took a serious toll on her health. After she began losing an alarming amount of weight in 2008, she was diagnosed with Graves’ disease, an autoimmune disorder that affects the thyroid. “It causes hair loss, your eyes bulge,” she says. “My blood pressure was always up from just overworking.”

Sharaya J, a talented rapper-dancer whom Elliott signed to her Goldmind label, began working with Elliott around this time and witnessed the impact that the disease had on the MC. “It started to change her way of life,” she says. “There were physical changes, extreme headaches, extreme weight loss. What that does to a person, being a public figure and knowing people are looking, judging? That’s a tough thing.”

With the aid of medication, Elliott eventually managed to get her condition under control. But in some ways, she wasn’t at ease in the spotlight to begin with. “She is a force, but she’s also shy, really shy,” says Sharaya. “I always say to her, ‘When I look at you as an adult, I can see you as a little kid.’ ” In fact, the anxiety that Elliott wrestles with began sometime in childhood. “I was always feisty, always that kid that would be on the porch with a hairbrush singing or rapping,” she says. “I got more shy as I got older and realized people could be laughing at me, or judging me.”

Elliott credits the beginning of her re-emergence to a call that she got from Williams in 2014. “He was just, ‘Yo, whatcha doing?’ ” she recalls. “And I was like, ‘I’m doing some music here and there.’ ” Williams suggested they get into the studio, an idea she took especially seriously because of the timing. “ ‘Happy,’ ” she says with a laugh, “was, like, on fire right then.”

It took a few months for Williams to carve out time in his schedule, but eventually he flew Elliott out to Los Angeles for six days of highly productive sessions. “I was willing to assist her in any way possible,” says Williams, “all the way down to doing music if that’s what she wanted me to do.”

But his wasn’t the only life-changing phone call Elliott got in 2014. Katy Perry’s team floated the idea of having her come out during the Super Bowl halftime show -- what the MC assumed would be a quick cameo. Then Perry got on the phone. “She said, ‘I want you to do three of your records,’ ” recalls Elliott. “And I’m just like, ‘Did she say three?’ ”

After rumors of the surprise began to circulate online, Elliott’s anxiety mounted. The night before the game, it metastasized into a full-blown panic attack: “Like, IVs in my arm, everything,” she says. “Nobody knew.” The day of the show, she remembers being just offstage and hearing the opening riff of “Get Ur Freak On.” “I said, ‘If I can get over this step, then I know all my dance steps will be on point,’ ” she recalls. “I know it was nothing but the grace of God that lifted me up and took me through that performance.” (Says Sharaya: “Me and Missy are really spiritual people. We wait on God to show us the way.”) Elliott sold nearly 350,000 song downloads by the end of the following week alone.

By then, “WTF” was the clear pick for her next single. But the video required more time than anyone expected. It took four months just to get the puppets made, and Elliott and co-director Meyers later decided to go with an even more ambitious concept than they had originally envisioned. “We did so many different treatments,” she says. “It was hard because we’re like, ‘We did that before.’ ‘Oh, that ain’t hot.’ We knew that we just had to push the envelope.”

Elliott doesn’t watch much TV, and when she listens to the radio it’s usually an underground hip-hop station rather than chart-busting hits, which she thinks have grown safe and same-y. “There are some great records out there,” she says. “But it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to hear that a lot of songs sound alike.” She does like Kendrick Lamar, Drake and J. Cole. When asked about Nicki Minaj, who is clearly influenced by Elliott, she mock-innocently replies, “Oh, she is?” (Speaking to her influence generally, she adds, “Unfortunately, breaking news, there is only one Missy.”) Still, she would love to see more woman MCs on the charts -- when she was coming up, that was much more common. “It was me, [Lil’] Kim, Lauryn [Hill], Eve, Foxy [Brown], Trina,” she says. “There’s room for so many. It’s important.”

As for what’s next, Elliott wants to tour, which she hasn’t done in a major way in years. “I’ve done mad shows, but my last amazing tour was me, Beyoncé and Alicia [Keys, in 2004]. I’d love to do one with B.” And when will the album be out? “I want to say 2016 but I don’t want to give a time. Nowadays you say a time, they’ll stone you.”

It’s not the first time she has promised an album -- she scrapped a planned LP in 2008 -- but she promises that things are different now (“Yes, yes, definitely”). “Missy is careful about not releasing stuff unless she feels it in her gut,” says Sharaya. “She wasn’t going to make a move until she knew she had a record that was going to change the world.” Ask Williams what Elliott has in store, and he sums it up in two words: “Get ready.”

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THat's funny. I was just thinking the other day what major tour has Missy done and with who? And I remembered that tour. I forgot what it was called. Maybe "Ladies First" Tour?

getxxxx said:

And when will the album be out? “I want to say 2016 but I don’t want to give a time. Nowadays you say a time, they’ll stone you.”

WTF indeed. Can't even say for sure if it will be out in the next 13 months? Yeesh.

Missy Elliot's team has purchased or lobbied for the 2015 Billboard Women In Music Innovator Award!! Just in time for her new release she has a great promotional team!

Musicslave said:

Cinny said:

I also can't believe she wrote Pharrell's corny verse.

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Yeah. She could've done without his verse. It adds no flavor to the track. His production and feature is probably just the ripple effect from his recent success. I could be wrong, but the music cynic in me tells me otherwise.

The article makes it clear. Pharrell phoned Missy at the height of "Happy".

Cinny said:

Musicslave said:

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Yeah. She could've done without his verse. It adds no flavor to the track. His production and feature is probably just the ripple effect from his recent success. I could be wrong, but the music cynic in me tells me otherwise.

The article makes it clear. Pharrell phoned Missy at the height of "Happy".

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Well, how about that?! She needs to get over any fear she has and just continue to ride the momentum she has now.

JKOOLMUSIC said:

Missy Elliot's team has purchased or lobbied for the 2015 Billboard Women In Music Innovator Award!! Just in time for her new release she has a great promotional team!

She couldn't even say for sure if the album would come out in 2016, so I don't know why it seems like we're all geared up for album promo.

Oh and I don't think I've said it here but Nicki Minaj is the love child of Lil Kim & Missy Elliott. To me, she borrowed heavily from both emcees.

Cinny said:

getxxxx said:

And when will the album be out? “I want to say 2016 but I don’t want to give a time. Nowadays you say a time, they’ll stone you.”

WTF indeed. Can't even say for sure if it will be out in the next 13 months? Yeesh.

Maybe she meant "I want to say 2016 but not the month" or whatever. I hope she could at least say the year!

You know I immediatley thought of Madonna's "Spanish Lesson" when this song came on. You can mix both and it would sounds real nice together

paisleypark4 said:

You know I immediatley thought of Madonna's "Spanish Lesson" when this song came on. You can mix both and it would sounds real nice together

"Spanish Lesson" sounded so much like Justin Timberlake's breakout solo single that The Neptunes also produced, "Like I Love You".

[Edited 12/16/15 13:51pm]

In my honest opinion, Missy Elliott is the most talented hip hop recording artist of all time. Her
creativity is fucking astonishing.

[Edited 12/17/15 17:04pm]