There is no rapper in the 21st century whose music videos are as inextricable from their pop culture prestige as MissyElliott.
tracks condensed into the four-and-a-half-minutes. Missy Elliott somberly writes with a quill pen in the sepia-toned Aaliyah tribute “Baby Girl Interlude,” then she dances in a field and throws in areference. She closes the thing by becoming King Kong as “Wake Up” plays. In between it all is a sly flip of 1998’s “Beep Me 911,” where Missy plays a doll. Here, she’s a pageant winner celebrating in front of a crowd of mostly white dolls—a possible comment on mainstream beauty standards. Like9.
Along with being -- for lack of a better term -- different, “Sock It 2 Me” also continues Missy’s fixation on escapism. The scene where Missy and her dancers do Michael Jackson’s famed anti-gravity lean could be both homage and a callback: She’d write both Janet and Michael letters begging them to save her from her abusive life as a child. They never wrote back, but Missy did eventually get to say she collaborated with Janet, and got Da Brat on a hoverbike.
It said she was a woman who came to dominate. “Music is a male-dominated field,” she said in an interview explaining the song. “Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down. To other people that may come across as being a bitch, but it’s just knowing what we want and being confident.
This a fairly straightforward recollection that makes what actually goes down in the video feel more absurd -- how does one go from that to this? While “being ahead of the curve” as a Missy descriptor is a cliché, the thrilling pace of “Get Ur Freak On” ventured just a little ahead of the human senses.
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