This Is Not A Poll!: The Missy Elliott Singles Poll.

My top 10:

1. Take Away
2. All N My Grill
3. Gossip Folks
4. Hoy Boyz
5. Get Ur Freak On
6. I'm Really Hot
7. She's A Bitch
8. The Rain
9. Work It
10. On & On

REALLY torn between Beep Me and Get Ur. I figure the latter will get more love, so Beep Me it is.

I still love "Sock It 2 Me," but it's hard to argue with "Gossip Folks."

between "one minute man" and "gossip folks" for me

esp the full luda-trina-jay blend

trina's verse on one minute man is so awesome.

"i'm really hot" an underrated fave

1 "She's a Bitch"
2 "Gossip Folks" (featuring Ludacris)
3 "Get Ur Freak On"
4 "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)"
5 "4 My People" (featuring Eve)
6 "On & On"
7 "Back in the Day" (featuring Jay-Z and Tweet)
8 "Work It"
9 "One Minute Man" (featuring Ludacris & Trina)
10 "Hot Boyz" (featuring Nas, Eve and Q-Tip)

Worst: "We Run This"

"Get Ur Freak On". Not because I like it much, but because it was quite unique for a hit song to feature a line performed backwards in the chorus.

"Work It" is the one with the backwards chorus.

Hmmm. You're right. "Get Ur Freak On" is the Bangra one, right?

also gossip folks though i guess that's just playing gibberish

xpost: yeah, thats it.

Worst: "Ching-A-Ling" maybe? I dunno. It's not bad just kind of subpar. I love the video though. "We Run This" is lame as well.

How many artists can say that they have a song as good as "Get Ur Freak On" and it's only their third best single? Toss-up between "Work It" and "4 My People" for the best, went with the latter.

Tough contest between "Beep My 911" and "Lose Control." Went with the latter.

"We Run This" = fun

you guys hate fun

The dregs of the fun barrel.

Once massively innovative hip-hop artist resorting to sampling Apache = not fun, slightly depressing.

yeah and 90% her singles are "fun" an forty times better than "we run this"

i picked her least fun single as my #1 lol

you guys don't hang around enough poms squads.

"The Rain" has aged a _lot_ worse than the rest of her stuff

'lose control' underrated 'freak on' crazy overrated.

yeah and 90% her singles are "fun" an forty times better than "we run this"

btw, this is total bullshit.

nah it's pretty much true.

Missy's best singles aren't fun. and if you think that's true, you have a twisted view of 'fun'

"one minute man" and "gossip folks" and "lose control" and "get ur freak on" and "hit em wit da hee" and "all n my grill" aren't fun? and if you think those aren't her best you have a twisted view of "best"

LOL how isn't "Gossip FOlks" fun? "Get Ur Freak On?" "One Minute Man?","Hot Boyz?", "Lose Control?", "Sock It 2 Me?", etc. etc.

Sexy, sinister, smooth and totally danceable, but fun? No.

what do you consider fun?

(fun, natural fun)

Once massively innovative hip-hop artist resorting to sampling Apache = not fun, slightly depressing.

-- chap, Sunday, February 10, 2008 3:09 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Disproved by "Made You Look", which doesn't mean that "We Run This" sucks any less.

u crazy tape store

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J30ExTVUzMk
soooo much fun!!!!!

Ok, ban Tape Store.

'gossip folks' and 'lose control' (my 2 faves) "sexy, sinister, smooth"? -- whatever dude.

tape store can buff my pumas.

and anyway if "sexy, sinister, smooth and totally danceable" /= fun tape store must lead the most boring life known to man

what do you consider fun?

music that makes me smile

Fun:
2. Enjoyment; amusement: have fun at the beach.
3. Playful, often noisy, activity.

ok, way to take my words and apply them to every goddamn song, geniuses

"Beep Me 911" (featuring 702 & Magoo)

so are you saying gossip foks, get ur freak on et al are fun just not her best?

oh, and lose control = fun (but that's not even one of her best)

i don't think that would make you any less wrong, just trying to understand what you're even getting at

Missy's best singles aren't fun. and if you think that's true, you have a twisted view of 'fun'

-- Tape Store, Sunday, February 10, 2008 11:22 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

LOL how isn't "Gossip FOlks" fun? "Get Ur Freak On?" "One Minute Man?","Hot Boyz?", "Lose Control?", "Sock It 2 Me?", etc. etc.

-- The Brainwasher, Sunday, February 10, 2008 11:24 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Sexy, sinister, smooth and totally danceable, but fun? No.

-- Tape Store, Sunday, February 10, 2008 11:27 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

lol derail

"Smell Yo Dick" = fun
"Soulja Boy" = fun
This Is Not A Poll!: The Missy Elliott Singles Poll. = not fun

i think?

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man this is hard...probably work it

J0rdan S: listen to this

lol derail

-- The Reverend, Sunday, February 10, 2008 5:36 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

lol tape store

rev this is awesome thx

kind of sad to find out that gossip folks chorus is not an original but it's no less awz

it helps when u realize that part of the appeal of the track is its part of missy's old skool referential thing.

which was well past tired by the time she started doing apache covers

^^^that

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i love 'we run this'. didn't see this poll tho

haha i thought the fun wars on this boarded ended 5 years ago

"Beep Me 911" (featuring 702 & Magoo) 5

srsly?

pass that dutch, also kinda wack

seriously! that's like the Timbaland beat that first made me go holy shit (I mean "Pony" and "One In A Million" and "The Rain" are cool but in a real spare, icy way, where that one just dazzles). somehow I completely missed this poll, but I probably woulda got that one to 6 votes.

yeah "Pass That Dutch" was really the beginning of the end, as far as her winning streak. so depressing how she didn't seem to have a doubt in her mind that it wasn't the equal of "Get Ur Freak On" or "Work It".

Hmmm, "Beep Me 911" is pretty much the only one of that first bunch of Timbaland tracks that didn't really do anything for me. "If Your Girl Only Knew" (which gets hella underrated round these parts, and has one of the best basslines ever) was the main one that had me all O_o. xp

i'm kind of shocked that "gossip folks" only got one vote

and yeah I agree with Rev wrt "Beep Me 911"

re: "Gossip Folks", me too. And yeah, "Pass That Dutch" is definitely the first point where I caught her retracing her steps.

"Cop That Shit" was a much better "Work It, pt. 2" than "Pass That Dutch".

Missed this! "gossip folks" #1 then "get yr freak on" and "beep me 911" I think. "lick shots" is great. I think "sock it 2 me" was the first timbaland beat where I really started paying attention

"best best" is wicked, sounds like da real world for the 00s

that sort of gothic futurism

wtf 'all n my grill' ROBBED here!

I'm just here for the title.
'This Is Not A Poll'
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Here's 25, including guest appearance.