{"id":6109,"date":"2015-05-06T23:51:21","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T22:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/?p=6109"},"modified":"2015-05-06T23:56:33","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T22:56:33","slug":"listening-to-missy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/?p=6109","title":{"rendered":"Listening to Missy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thank you all for your comments on my last post – I was delighted to discover that some of you share my appreciation for Missy Elliott<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As I mentioned, I’ve been listening to Missy Elliott lots in recent weeks and today I want to share some of my observations on her music and reflect on just why it’s so good<\/em>. <\/p>\n

\"MISSY<\/p>\n

Missy Elliot’s music is fun<\/em>. From segments where she just talks to sound effects and vocal effects in her songs, her work is full of surprises that catch you out and make you laugh. The cartoon scenes she creates and unexpected noises remind me of notes I wrote to my girlfriends as a teenager; they’re the sonic equivalent of those felt-tip-pen drawings and glittery stickers. I love the interlude before TOYS where she is paparazzi’d in a sex shop, and the interlude before I’M REALLY REALLY HOT where she is singing in an old-timey rag-time song, which ends abruptly “Yo, drop the beat”. That last example makes the self-aggrandizing and gloriously boastful flavour of I’M REALLY REALLY HOT all the more of a jolt… it’s comedy genius<\/em>.<\/p>\n