Missy Elliot: "Work It"

Ax post? I like that.

hi missy? wassup fools

five years! unbelievable.

where has it gone, all our freshness of youth

I used to not like this song, but it's pretty good now that I listen to it again

where has it gone, all our freshness of youth

-- strongohulkington, Tuesday, June 19, 2007 10:30 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

louisojagginton

seems like longer

WTF, everything since summer '03 happened in like the last 45 minutes. So this song only came out 9 monhts ago.

i like to downlode

old people be senile

it'll happen to you, etc.

I will weep for the lost days of my youth 8 years from now, when Lindsay Lohan completes her inevitable transformation into Genesis P Orridge

Five years ago, I was at the same job in the same city doing the same shit.

YOU CHILDREN ARE ALL CHILDREN

SOME OF US HAVE EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS, DAN

I didn't like Missy very much in 7th grade; this was probably my Lifehouse stage.

hahahaha Lifehouse

i still know all the words off by heart :)

RFI: The sample at the beginning - "DJ, please/ Pick up your phone/ I'm on the request line"

zhane - request line

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w174E3pa9OM

Thanks, but are you sure that isn't a cover of the sampled tune? The sample has male voices, too, and the female voices sound different.

Ethan's wrong the original is by Rock Master Scott

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jPM8H95Sjg

U R AWESOME

I only know it cuz its on some Grandmaster Flash mixtape thing I have

The original is hot 'cause it's fly.

OMG eminem is so hot missey u rock ya we still write here u loozer pimp juice u are not a pimp!!!!!!!!!! so dont try!!!!!! i just wanted to say hi to racheal my best friend luv ya !! and my couzin kirsten hey was up i am coming up this summer!max u are a fag!!!seriousley stocking isnt your thing em u are a good singer and missey eliot u are so kool!!!elias who cares wat ppl say about u and me luv ya natalya and michelle yo was up phone me k .chetty u are a tard he dident call me a slut u f*** well i am going to listen to work it so talk to u later!!!!!!!!!!
racheal u are my best friend .i wont change my friends for a guy trust me tal!!!kirk talk to u later
p.s. tal dosent stuff and u know who i am talking to

caitlyn ck 4 life elias i luv u bye missy

-- caitlyn lees, Saturday, April 12, 2003 9:56 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link

wtf caitlyn lees

Imagine the child of Busta Rhymes and Missy Elliott.
-- Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 6 September 2002 12:07 (4 years ago) Link

hey who remembers when busta rhymes was groundbreaking???

-- Jordan Sargent, Tuesday, June 19, 2007 3:24 AM (9 months ago) Bookmark Link

i think this is one of my first posts ever

I can't believe it's already been 9 months.

i know right

Check out the first twenty or so posts on this thread. Has ILM ever been that collectively excited upon hearing a new song for the first time? It makes me smile.

I remember hearing the song and being all "ho hum, I guess she won't top Get Ur Freak On" and then being kind of surprised by this thread a few days later.

I was having a Pete Rockist moment at the time this came out.

http://www.slangcity.com/songs/missy_elliot.htm

Give me all your telephone numbers so I can call you.
If your girlfriend is behaving badly then call me over.
Let's not have sex on the bed; lay me on your sofa.
Call before you come, I need to shave my pubic hair.

As the drummer boy goes pa-rom-pop-pom-pom,
I'll give you some of my delicious butt.

:D

Huh, dunno why, but I always thought "If you got a big [elephant noise], let me search ya," was "If you got a big TRUNK, let me search ya." Like, trunk as in car trunk, meaning butt (as in junk in the trunk), plus also the clever elephant pun. But I suppose "If you got a big penis, let me search ya" makes more sense, or at least simpler sense.

trunk as in elephant trunk, aka big penis

Yeah, I got it. But I always thought of car trunk for some reason. Over (under?) thinking it, of course.

"If you possess a large trunk in your automobile I would like to examine the contents."

also lollin' @ this:

"See my ass and my lips, don'tcha" = "You see my butt and my mouth, don't you?"

ah naif internet folx...

"You love the way my butt moves.
Keep your eyes on my butt
And think you can handle my butt.
Take my thong off and my butt starts moving fast."

^^^ lacks a bit of poetry.

i try to use the "take my thong off and my ass go WHOMP" line in casual conversation as much as possible

snacky hos

ha

I love this song so much. I've been listening to it a lot the last couple weeks because I have it on a mix I found in the car. So good.

I need a glass of watah

"let's get drunk, it's gon' bring us closer" is kind of poignant imo

been thinking... Missy's string of hits around this time, as well as songs like Justin Timberlake's Rock Your Body, were the reason for that whole nu wave of Poptimism in the early '00s, weren't they?

but in hindsight, a lot of Pop/RnB of that time seems unusually inventive/innovative, so it could be argued that a lot of it was being appreciated/championed for borderline Rockist reasons... I'm thinking of that "Pop/RnB/Mainstream Hip Hop are the most innovative areas of music out there right now" argument that was being made (which prob couldn't be made now imo)

not to open up the Popist/Rockist can of worms, just realizing how good Pop got for a moment there - but that it ticked a lot of the Rockist boxes as well

http://www.spin.com/articles/missy-elliotts-first-album-7-years-drops-june

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