MISSY ELLIOTT - Work It
"Gimme a pig’s foot and a bottle o’ beer" demanded blueswoman Bessie Smith in song. Missy Elliott always seemed a Bessie Smith kind of woman – large in size, talent and appetite for life. So when ‘Work It’ first emerged on the Internet it seemed marvellously louche – a vision of sexual abundance in which Missy demands "Go downtown and eat it like a vulture… See my ass go ba-dom-pa-domp-domp". Now it transpires that Missy’s become more of a celery stick and glass of Evian type of person, the sex in ‘Work It’ presumably to be fitted in between treadmill sessions. Fortunately Missy’s musical talents haven’t gone the way of her booty. She just seems to have lost some of her… Missyness.
The second is this review of the Justin Timberlake album, with particular reference to the bits about Justin "poncing off black talent" (yeah, I bet the Neps were FUMING about that in the studio).
Is this man incapable of reviewing anything along any lines other than the appearance of the musicians? How on earth do you get into music journalism writing this badly?
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 15:27 (twenty-three years ago)
― Aaron W, Wednesday, 13 November 2002 15:37 (twenty-three years ago)
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 16:25 (twenty-three years ago)
esp. this one
http://lincoln.midcoast.com/~wps/2warner/images/giraffe.gif
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 16:28 (twenty-three years ago)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 16:30 (twenty-three years ago)
― Aaron W, Wednesday, 13 November 2002 16:31 (twenty-three years ago)
Needham's comments on the Strokes (i.e. that people that don't enjoy them are sad or something) did spike him right at the top of the pile for me...
Though Ahmed is a bit rubbish too.
― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 16:32 (twenty-three years ago)
― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 17:04 (twenty-three years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 17:12 (twenty-three years ago)
Might have actually been more entertaining!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 18:34 (twenty-three years ago)
what a c--- .
― piscesboy, Wednesday, 13 November 2002 19:48 (twenty-three years ago)
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 22:43 (twenty-three years ago)
― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 22:45 (twenty-three years ago)
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 22:54 (twenty-three years ago)
Anyway Julio, you don't read the NME - your a loyal daily DJ Martian's Page reader correct? - by default I am the daily/ weekly opposition of the NME (with Sounds and MM gone)- you got to the know the enemy /NME and week weakly competition !
new Killing Joke album on the way in 2003 - where is the NME to report this ? A: there too busy wanking over nomark garbage garage rock - that is basic, boring, retro dull.
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 23:12 (twenty-three years ago)
― Aaron W, Wednesday, 13 November 2002 23:17 (twenty-three years ago)
I think abt say 18 months ago I used to care abt (keeping up to date) when recs came out so i did use to consult yr page. now i don't (though i buy more recs than ever though most of them have not been released this year...)don't look at dates but yes, yr rants were amusing for five seconds but its all repetitive and moronic bullshit.
The NME are crap: so what?
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 23:26 (twenty-three years ago)
I find this pretty funny. It's not genius or anything. But it's funny.
― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 23:37 (twenty-three years ago)
― Rebecca (reb), Thursday, 14 November 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
by Justin R.
Giraffes are funny. Giraffes like to laugh and they eat grass. They eat until they'refull. Giraffes look like dinosaurs but they're not. They like to sleep. Giraffes havebig, long necks. I really like giraffes.
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 14 November 2002 00:04 (twenty-three years ago)
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 14 November 2002 00:13 (twenty-three years ago)
― bob zemko (bob), Thursday, 14 November 2002 00:26 (twenty-three years ago)
I agree, actually. He's gone up in my estimation.
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 14 November 2002 00:26 (twenty-three years ago)
Ned hates fun.
― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 14 November 2002 00:33 (twenty-three years ago)
― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 14 November 2002 00:41 (twenty-three years ago)
I think homos like Needham are more more qualified to write about buggering and homophobia, even if his general shtick is so fucking generic.
― peter r, Thursday, 14 November 2002 02:28 (twenty-three years ago)
― Really cool, wickedly cool, cooly cool bon apetit! (ex machina), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)
doing well for himself
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 20 July 2007 09:21 (eighteen years ago)
Fair play.
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)