TS: 'Get Ya Freak On' vs. 'Work It'

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I like 'Get Ya Freak On' the best. It's got those tablas and the ultra catchy melody.

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 6 November 2002 17:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Agreed.

― paul cox (paul cox), Wednesday, 6 November 2002 17:33 (twenty-three years ago)

but i'd rather listen to 'work it' right now

― blueski, Wednesday, 6 November 2002 17:35 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm like the only person in the world who still isn't feeling "work it", so it's "freak" all the way.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 6 November 2002 18:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I wasn't feeling "Freak" for a long time -- I was like "What's the big deal? You'd think people had never heard a tabla drum in a pop* song before!"

I think I like it better now. Plus, "Smells Like Missy Elliot" is a GREBT bootleg.

*pop meaning "popular music" and encompassing rock, rap, etc.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 6 November 2002 19:02 (twenty-three years ago)

haha apples and oranges!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 6 November 2002 19:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, they're different tempos.... "Get Ur Freak On" is faster, "Work It" is more hip-hop tempo. Both great songs, just different vibes. I couldn't take a side here.

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 6 November 2002 21:59 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, "Work It" is like a statement of anti-hooks, or half-hooks, where you fill in the blanks with yore BRANE, but GUrFOn is like the mega-hook to end all mega-hooks shoved up against one wall and blank nothingness shoved against the other... i think i like the extremity of the latter

(ps db GURFON is slower actual-tempo if i'm not mistaken)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 6 November 2002 22:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Get Yr Freak On.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 6 November 2002 22:18 (twenty-three years ago)

evidently my brain is too weak to fill in the missing hooks.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 6 November 2002 22:38 (twenty-three years ago)

(ps db GURFON is slower actual-tempo if i'm not mistaken)

I think you're counting the beat at half-tempo, Tracer.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 6 November 2002 22:55 (twenty-three years ago)

When in doubt, I always go for the song with the word freak in the title.

― brg30 (brg30), Wednesday, 6 November 2002 22:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Tend to go with 'Work It.' I like the motorik, electro line - that digital snare-crack. Plus those disorientating, echoed calls in the background. Strange how a seemingly peripheral sound effect can skew the entire vision of the track...

'Freak On' just sounds a bit tired to my ears after a million spins, remixes/bootlegs ad naseum, etc. Shame.

― Michael Dieter, Wednesday, 6 November 2002 23:20 (twenty-three years ago)

you say "tomahto" Dan - let's call the whole thing "cut time"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 6 November 2002 23:29 (twenty-three years ago)

i'd go with "freak on" - it's withstood the remixing, the bootlegging, everything and i still don't mind hearing it. "work it" kicked my ass the first time i heard it but now the hooks seem too gimmicky and it's starting to grate on my nerves. fremme...neppa...

― your null fame (yournullfame), Thursday, 7 November 2002 00:16 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, "work it" has already started to age poorly...i'll probably still rate it highly at the end of the year, but merely for those first few ass kicking times. (keep in mind i was bored shitless of "g.u.f.o." before i had even bought the album, so this is not something new for missy and me.)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 7 November 2002 00:37 (twenty-three years ago)

i'd have to go with 'lick shots'

― minna (minna), Thursday, 7 November 2002 04:39 (twenty-three years ago)

"Get Ur Freak On" is my favorite first single off an Missy album and "Work It" is my least favorite (although it has taken on a sentimental tone since Jam Master Jay died), so it gets the nod. I'm definitely in the minority here but my fave Missy tracks are "Sock It to Me" and "Hot Boyz".

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 7 November 2002 05:25 (twenty-three years ago)

But "Sock It 2 Me" was also a single

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 7 November 2002 07:39 (twenty-three years ago)

my fave missy track is still the weepy roger troutman ballad on the last album.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 7 November 2002 07:42 (twenty-three years ago)

But it wasn't the first single! (Followup to "the Rain"). "Get Ur Freak On" was the first time where I preferred the first single (I know there's a better term for that) to the followup.

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 7 November 2002 07:42 (twenty-three years ago)

"The Rain" is her best and the dancing in the video is better than all the others.

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Thursday, 7 November 2002 18:16 (twenty-three years ago)

All I can say is "Work It" is a lot more fun to listen to right now. This will be a nice thread to revive in a few months.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Thursday, 7 November 2002 19:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I find the "bwing-bw-bwing-bwop-bwop-bwop" noise that runs through Work It unbelievably annoying, and it would be very difficult to work past it to the actual song if it weren't for the elephant noise. Man, that elephant noise kicks arse.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 7 November 2002 20:18 (twenty-three years ago)

re: elephant noise could this be the first hiphop single EVER where the radio edit is preferred to the album version?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 7 November 2002 20:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't think I've heard the album version, but if it's got a boring old swear word in there instead of the elephant noise then it can fuck right off.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 7 November 2002 20:55 (twenty-three years ago)

The elephant noise is sustained throughout and is even on the instrumental version.

I STILL haven't got bored of GURFO after a grillion plays, and it's Isabel's favourite record of the last several years. We want it as the first song at our wedding but I'm nut sure if you can have a fast song.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 8 November 2002 00:50 (twenty-three years ago)

actually after all the remixes booting etc etc hearing "freak" by itself feels quite refreshing

― bob zemko (bob), Friday, 8 November 2002 01:14 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...

dj/rupture played a beaut remix of work it tonite, but that is eclipsed by coming home and finally giving my bonus missy video disc a spin and seeing/hearing hot boyz for the first time ever! she looks awesome in that video, like prince(ss) (but female, and not wiry and 28" waisted). the song - did it come before or after 'try again'?

― minna (minna), Thursday, 23 January 2003 16:32 (twenty-three years ago)

minna my girl you have to get da real world!! blowing minds a year before try again!!

― xx, Thursday, 23 January 2003 17:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Has anyone checked the white lable (?) 'Get Your Freaky in Black' mix which drops the 'DC's 'Back in Black' guitar chops all over it? Need I say, it more than rocks.

― Roger Fascist (Roger Fascist), Thursday, 23 January 2003 17:13 (twenty-three years ago)

i will xx, i just downloaded the hot boyz remix ft. nas eve and q-tip - this was a massive oversight!

― minna (minna), Thursday, 23 January 2003 17:42 (twenty-three years ago)

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