{"id":2448004,"date":"2019-08-26T19:48:42","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T01:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=876568"},"modified":"2019-08-26T19:48:42","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T01:48:42","slug":"watch-missy-elliotts-career-spanning-medley-at-2019-vmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/watch-missy-elliotts-career-spanning-medley-at-2019-vmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Missy Elliott\u2019s Career-Spanning Medley at 2019 VMAs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Missy Elliott<\/a> performed a medley of famous hits at the MTV Video Music Awards<\/a> on Monday. Her dazzling set included \u201cThrow It Back,\u201d \u201cThe Rain (Supa Dupa Fly),\u201d \u201cGet Ur Freak On,\u201d<\/span> \u201cWork It,\u201d<\/span> \u201cPass That Dutch,\u201d and<\/span> \u201cLose Control.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Elliott opened her performance with her newest song, \u201cThrow It Back\u201d \u2014 a surprising choice given the numerous hits in her back-catalog. But in the context of her medley, Elliott\u2019s latest track took on a new significance: The bass line merged smoothly with the low-end of \u201cThe Rain (Super Fly),\u201d her debut single. After paying tribute to the song that jumpstarted her career, Elliott picked up the tempo, flying through her discography in chronological order.<\/p>\n

As the beats got fiercer, the ensembles behind the rapper got more frenetic. Elliott opened her medley with a small cadre of silvery dancers whirling in a house of mirrors. The dancers quickly multiplied, and the outfits kept changing: rain slickers and umbrella hats, then camouflage and spiky GI helmets. The wildest moment came during \u201cPass That Dutch,\u201d when Elliott was rapping while dressed as a scarecrow and a spaceship flew overhead.<\/p>\n

Elliott is the latest in a line of Video Vanguard winners stretching back to 1984. After being a fixture in the 1980s and 1990s, the network presented the honor inconsistently during the 2000s. But it\u2019s been a regular part of this decade\u2019s VMAs, with recipients including Justin Timberlake, Beyonc\u00e9, Kanye West, Rihanna, P!nk, and Jennifer Lopez.<\/p>\n

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This year\u2019s Video Vanguard Award recipient Missy Elliott shuts down the MTV #VMAs<\/a> with a stellar medley of her greatest hits.pic.twitter.com\/K9vEDHHSci<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 The Pop Hub (@ThePopHub) August 27, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Elliott has been a master of music videos for over two decades: Her 1997 debut single, \u201cThe Rain (Supa Dupa Fly),\u201d directed by Hype Williams, showed she already had a flair for eye-popping visuals. However, her achievements in the medium haven\u2019t always been recognized. While she was nominated for Best Short Form Music Video three times at the Grammys, she didn\u2019t win until 2006, when she took home the trophy for \u201cLose Control,\u201d which featured Ciara and Fatman Scoop.<\/p>\n

Even if award shows failed to recognize Elliott, she was a constant source of inspiration for her peers. \u201cShe changed the way so many people made music, myself included,\u201d Justin Timberlake said during a tribute spot on Monday.<\/span> \u201cMissy was making films,\u201d Pharrell told Elle<\/em><\/a> in 2017. \u201c\u2026 And it felt like there were no bounds to what she could do, and she continued to teach people over and over again, you can do this, you can do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elliott influenced a younger generation of musicians as well. \u201cMissy always looked cool in her videos,\u201d added Tyler, the Creator in 2016<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m not even talking about her normal dressing. Just the swag that she had in her videos. She made a fucking plastic bag look awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elliott went on a hiatus as a solo artist in the late 2000s before reemerging in 2015 with \u201cWTF (Where They From).\u201d On Friday she released a new EP titled <\/a>Iconology. <\/em><\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Missy Elliott performed a medley of famous hits at the MTV Video Music Awards on Monday. Her dazzling set included \u201cThrow It Back,\u201d \u201cThe Rain (Supa Dupa Fly),\u201d \u201cGet Ur Freak On,\u201d \u201cWork It,\u201d \u201cPass That Dutch,\u201d and \u201cLose Control.\u201d Elliott opened her performance with her newest song, \u201cThrow It Back\u201d \u2014 a surprising choice […]<\/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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2448004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 19:51:52","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":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}