Flip It And Reverse It

“MISSY ELLIOT’S “WORK IT” IS THE BEST SONG OF 2002″ – Um, no. Not at all. But it is pretty interesting and eccentric, and significantly better than her other recent singles. I can enjoy this song without having it mixed with Happy Mondays or George Michael, which is a nice change of pace on the Missy front for me. As an MC, she still strikes me as a one-trick pony, she really could be doing this rhyme over any of her beats and no one would really notice. Perhaps I’m just not meant to enjoy Missy and Timbaland…it’s so rare that they do something I genuinely enjoy rather than just respect. I think I’m still kind of bitter that the best Missy song I’ve ever heard that isn’t a bootleg mix, “Old Skool Joint”, was never released as a single, when it really, really should have been.

Haven’t been posting much – a bit busy. I’ve spent a lot of music-listening time lately revisiting R.E.M. and Grant Lee Buffalo, trying to will autumn weather into existence by listening to music I associate with that season obsessively.

Someone I went to school with is in the newest season of MTV’s The Real World. I didn’t know this girl very well, but I’m still interested in seeing how the person I knew from class relates to the person who’s going to be edited up and put on tv.