{"id":806645,"date":"2020-04-21T19:09:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T01:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=987971"},"modified":"2020-04-21T19:09:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T01:09:15","slug":"missy-elliott-transforms-into-vibrant-museum-art-in-new-cool-off-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/missy-elliott-transforms-into-vibrant-museum-art-in-new-cool-off-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Missy Elliott Transforms into Vibrant Museum Art in New \u2018Cool Off\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/MIssyElliottCoolOffVideo.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/missy-elliott\/\" id=\"auto-tag_missy-elliott\" data-tag=\"missy-elliott\">Missy Elliott<\/a> springs to life as various pieces of art in a museum in the new video for \u201cCool Off.\u201d It\u2019s the final single to receive a visual from her 2019 EP, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/missy-elliott-iconology-sheffield-review-878772\/\"><em>Iconology<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the Daniel Russell-directed clip, the rapper appears as a bronze statue that begins to sing, surrounded by other living statues that groove alongside her. The museum confines transform into a pulsating club with lights and pop-art backgrounds as the opening scene is interspersed with clips of a vibrant crew of neon-clad dancers twerking. Meanwhile, Elliott reappears in a colorful outfit as a bobbing, tilting doll rolling around to the beats. Towards the end of the video, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/teyana-taylor\/\" id=\"auto-tag_teyana-taylor\" data-tag=\"teyana-taylor\">Teyana Taylor<\/a> reprises her museum guide role from Elliott\u2019s \u201cDripDemeanor\u201d video. While in a gallery featuring paintings of the rapper, Taylor talks to a young girl in a gallery about Elliott, describing her as \u201cthe greatest, most timeless woman of all time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elliott\u2019s \u201cCool Off\u201d clip follows videos for <em>Iconology<\/em>\u2018s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/missy-elliott-why-i-still-love-you-video-938818\/\">Why I Still Love You<\/a>,\u201d \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/missy-elliott-dripdemeanor-video-900507\/\">DripDemeanor<\/a>\u201d featuring Sum1 and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/missy-elliott-iconology-ep-throw-it-back-video-listen-watch-875129\/\">Throw it Back<\/a>.\u201d Last summer, she received MTV\u2019s Video Vanguard Award, which paid homage to her outstanding achievements in the medium. Elliott performed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/missy-elliott-vmas-medley-video-vanguard-876568\/\">career-spanning medley<\/a> of her hits during the ceremony.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/missy-elliott-cool-off-video-987971\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missy Elliott springs to life as various pieces of art in a museum in the new video for \u201cCool Off.\u201d It\u2019s the final single to receive a visual from her 2019 EP, Iconology. In the Daniel Russell-directed clip, the rapper appears as a bronze statue that begins to sing, surrounded by other living statues that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-806645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-13 10:01:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}