Missy Elliott Billboard Cover

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(accidentally put in gaga section, so if you wanna change that)

 

Missy Elliott is this week's Billboard cover girl! Not only does the magazine feature a photoshoot with Missy, it offers quite a reflective interview. Below, are some important parts from the interview.

 

-Missy is very aware of how the industry functions now and how that affects her. 

 “I have to be very careful, it’s different now. People are quick to be like, ‘You’re irrelevant, you’re a flop, you’re washed up.” (She must be visiting Gaga Daily)

 

-She's been working with only Pharrell and Timbaland as producers for her next album.

"Now there’s the promise of an album, likely out in 2016, full of tracks that she has been working on with Williams and Timbaland -- or as Elliott puts it, “the only two producers that understand me.” “When I go like this,” she says, referring to her total commitment to the single and the new phase that it promises, “you know that it’s something I totally believe in.”

 

- Missy didn't plan on taking that long of a break, but admits she needed it. 

"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.”

 

-Missy's health was a major contributing factor to her extended hiatus. 

"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.”

 

-Missy was s-xually abused by her cousin as a kid, her father beat her mom, and her dad pulled a gun on her once. 

"Growing up, she experienced a lot of violence. She has spoken before about surviving s-xual abuse at the hands of a cousin and regularly witnessing her father beating her mother; she and her mom finally left after he pulled a gun when Elliott was 14."

 

- Missy used music as an escape from her struggles growing up.

"During those episodes, she would escape into music. “My room would become a whole other world once I shut that door,” she says. “That’s why I believe my videos are so important to me. It was Alice in Wonderland: my bed, my closet -- it would all turn into something else. And I would write and sing and block out whatever was going on.”

 

-Missy owns six houses.

“two in Virginia, two in Miami, one in New Jersey and one in Atlanta”

 

-Pharrell is the one who jumpstarted Missy's comeback 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.”

 

-She had a panic attack the night before the Super Bowl.

"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.”

 

-"WTF (Where They From)" was chosen as the first single even before the Super Bowl and the video took a VERY long time to create.

"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.”

 

-Missy thinks the majority of the songs sound the same on the radio.

“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 likes Kendrick Lamar, Drake and J.Cole.

 

-She threw a little bit of shade at Nicki Minaj

"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.”

 

-She'd love to see more female rappers in the game

"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.”

 

-She wants to tour with Beyonce again.

"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.”

 

 

 

 

 

To see the full article on Billboard:

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/cover-story/6769236/missy-elliott-comeback-wtf-new-album-graves-disease-anxiety-super-bowl

 

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inb4 you are Missy 

 

OT: Loved the interview and cover

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Amazing Gaga news 

[LGHunter 1,501]

Does her single flop?

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The Nicki Minaj shade 

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Just now, LGHunter said:

Does her single flop?

Now why does it matter?

It is amazing musically, and that's all that you should know.

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2 minutes ago, Teal Ambition said:

Amazing Gaga news 

wait did i put this under gaga, ugh 

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10 minutes ago, DiscoHeaven23 said:

“Unfortunately, breaking news, there is only one Missy.”

 

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3 minutes ago, Teal Ambition said:

Amazing Gaga news 

 

11 minutes ago, DiscoHeaven23 said:

(She must be visiting Gaga Daily)

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4 minutes ago, LGHunter said:

Does her single flop?

 

3 minutes ago, Design said:

Now why does it matter?

It is amazing musically, and that's all that you should know.

it didn't even flop though lol, it was in the top 5 on iTunes for days and hasn't left the top 20 since debuting a week ago and has nearly 14 million views on Youtube in just a week

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She looks beautiful. 

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24 minutes ago, LGHunter said:

Does her single flop?

Quite the contrary, she is getting very warm welcome by many. Her singje sold like hot cakes. And the MV already reached 13 millions views since it was released in Nov 12.

And is receiving Innovator award by Billboard.

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First pic from the spread giving me She's A Bitch teas.  Love that video to death.  It was huge when it premiered on MTV once upon a time.  She was untouchable. 

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1 hour ago, LGHunter said:

Does her single flop?

It's funny how she referenced people like you right in the article. Nope single hasn't flopped selling strong on iTunes and streaming well on Apple Music and has  almost 15 million views on YouTube in less than a week.  So no not flopping.

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2 hours ago, just4fun said:

It's funny how she referenced people like you right in the article. Nope single hasn't flopped selling strong on iTunes and streaming well on Apple Music and has  almost 15 million views on YouTube in less than a week.  So no not flopping.

It was just a question