Under Construction

Rapper. I don't like cra... e, rap.

Gib skip Funktion, this Shit cringe

The album almost makes it to 2 stars, but it shoots itself in the foot too many times when it could have easily been avoided. Sacrificing musical complexity, song structure, instrumentation, melody, likability, and infinitely many other factors for the sake of... whatever this is... isn't worth it. Under Construction is yet another example where narration is very unhelpful for the listening experience. Intro / Go to the Floor is already not a particularly convincing track, and the musically barren first half doesn't help. Pussycat is a good track, but it's similarly dragged down infinitely by the monologue at the end. Again I question how some of these musically barren song segments made the final cut on an album that's already slightly bloated. The exact same problem happens in Can You Hear Me. Missy Elliott doesn't even have the goodwill to put these in their own discrete interlude tracks so that they're easier to skip. The latter track is the final one in the album, in which Elliott declares that she hopes you enjoyed, but doesn't care if you didn't. Man, are you *trying* to make your listeners despise you? The constant cutting of the melodic and harmonic parts of the instrumental is pretty jarring, and yet is consistent enough that I have to imagine Elliott thinks it sounds good. Go to the Floor does it every single bar, Bring the Pain makes the jump-cutting part of its hook... This is a common music trope in the 90s and it hasn't aged well. Separately, Missy Elliott's voice is pretty annoying, especially when she's rapping in the upper register. All in all, the sound comes across as amateur and indulgent in lyrics/attitude while completely neglecting musicianship and quality of composition. I doubt many artists would want to listen to Gossip Folks more than once, let alone cover it. Chronologically, the first decent track is Back in the Day – partly because Missy Elliott finally sings rather than using her obnoxious rap voice, and partly because the hook doesn't keep cutting out and disrupting the smooth funky experience. The music is continuous (lacking the very sudden silences that prevent the listener from properly grooving), for the most part. 1/5 Key tracks: Back in the Day, Funky Fresh Dressed, Play That Beat

Eerste nummer geluisterd, gaan we lekker niet doen

Shitty pop rap. No. Sound is interesting, but those vocals... Just NO.

Ok

Nö!

I don't understand why anyone would like this.

Likte da egentlig ganske dårlig

Not my jam...

Eigenlijk ben ik hier vrij snel na het gesproken intro al klaar mee. Ik heb hier helemaal niks mee. De boodschap (als die er al in zit) boeit me niet, ik vind de beats op dit album relatief saai (een enkele uitzondering daargelaten). Zo'n track als Pussycat vind ik enorm cringe. Net als het "This is a Missy Elliott exclusive" op elke track. Het Missy Elliott nummer met de meest iconische beat staat niet op dit album (Get Ur Freak On). Op dit album heb je dan nog wel 'Work It' als hoogtepunt, wat op zich nog wel een gaaf nummer is, met een gave clip ook. Ik zit al te diep in m'n rant om daar nog echt oog voor te hebben. Wat ik ook bizar vind is dat ik me de tijd nog herinner dat deze muziek uitkwam en toen klonk het nog alsof ze (Missy en Timbaland) hun tijd vooruit waren, maar als je het nu luistert klinkt het toch aardig gedateerd. Misschien onderschat ik dit album gruwelijk, maar ik heb er, op 'Work It' na, helemaal niks mee. En die track kan dit album voor mij niet redden. Ik heb elke track getwijfeld om de boel af te zetten. En heb hem in 2 etappes geluisterd uiteindelijk. Het is helemaal zwart voor m'n ogen inmiddels. En ze staat verdomme twee keer in deze lijst. 1 ster.

Simply annoying HipHop album.

# 416 : Nah. I still don't like rap…

The search for hip hop I don’t want to switch off continues. I want to like this better than I do (indeed at all) because the artist probably deserves it, but it is full of sounds that make me feel like a cat having water splashed on its face or noise from someone else’s car drowning out what I’m trying to listen to.

Gutter rap. Gangsta rap. All of it is total crap.

Po okladce zapowiada sie przesrogo... Boze, to ma 56minut, te albumy raperskie to masakra. Nuda, piski, jeki, bezsens.

No vá

yuck

Really didn't like this. I just can't like the style. So 1 star from me.

Well, I was ready to give this 2 stars for a while 'cause there's some pretty execrable stuff on this 1001 list and thought maybe this was better. Nah.

Basic rhymes, decent but dated beats, not much to say.

Sucks

Hip-hop again, not my scene!

Me cuesta mucho el hip-hop. Voy a tener que saltear este disco habiendo escuchado solo 4 canciones.

Awful

Not something I enjoyed

Not a genre I enjoy nor would listen to on my own.

I've never really liked Missy Elliott and a whole album of it was way, way more than I ever needed. I alternated between bored and annoyed the whole time.

Rap.. No thanks

Not to my tastes. I'm not into the staccato, the propulsiveness, the atonality. Just not engaging to me.

not for me

This is an absolutely dreadful Missy Elliot exclusive. The Elliot-Timbaland produced tracks are the worst. I survived nearly 1 hour of this rubbish. A few tracks were tolerable like "Pussycat". The first half is definitely irredeemable. I'm afraid I have to give "Under Construction" the rare 1 star.

Favorite Track: Back in the Day (feat. Jay-Z) This was such an unenjoyable album that I did not enjoy in the slightest. I would never go back to listen to this one. Not for me at all. I rate this album 1.4/5

And I still don't like rap. I can remember a song by Missy Elliott that I quite liked. But that was a long time ago. I can't do anything with that music. I played the first few songs. I usually fast-forwarded after the first aggressive chant. I found it amazing that the transitions, although randomly chosen, were not audible. No, I really don't need that. 1/5

Missy is a good rhythmic rapper, which I like (as opposed to spitting a million words a minute ala Eminem) but I don't really like any of the songs...which (obviously) defeats the entire premise. For the most part it's the production/mix which is awful - way too hot for my preference - understatement as its actually annoying and painful to listen to especially in headphones. As for Missy herself, she's technically good but I don't get anything in terms of legit emotion or power and I actually don't like her voice. Plus these lyrics - god. Beyond cringe. Not even funny in a stupid middle school way, just embarrassing. I can see how she was influential - as well as the album - but I don't like it at all and had a lot of trouble getting through it. Probably should give 2 stars for influence but an easy 1 for me personally.... 3/10 1 star

I didn't like it. But I'll probably give it a listen later in life!

Feels like the early 2000s was an awkward time for hip hop, these beats don't sound fresh despite some big name collabs. Production is boring and Missy's lyrics are making me cringe. Really awful opening and closing monologues too. Leave this one in the past.

• Ser ut som ett tidigt 2000 rapalbum, och korridoren på Tingsholm • Intressant att ha ett Intro som förklarar känslan/syftet bakom albumet, nämner också han där Trump • Inte min favorit typ av rap (tidig 2000) det här • (feat. många olika artister) Betyg: Jag ska va ärlig, jag orkade ej spendera min fritid på att lyssna klart på de sista 30 minutrarna => 1/5

Yet more Hip-Hop? The only thing that really differentiates this from all the other Hip-Hop albums is that this is "sung" by a woman.

I tried, I really did but I couldn't get through this album. Absolutely horrible.

The worst in music

Less of my style.

Het begint al gelijk met een skit, superirritant. Vervolgens twee nummers die soms zo typerend zijn voor hiphop: megakinderachtig, met name in de teksten. Als je als genre serieus genomen wil worden, maak dan niet zulke nummers. In het nummer met Jay-Z is het ook weer zo kansloos, maar dat wordt dan net als work it wel enigszins gered door een lekkere flow, met een goed sampletje of een leuke scratch. Verder is het altijd zo egocentrisch, een soort zelfverheerlijking, waar ik gewoon op afhaak. Waarom vind ik dan grunge wel top, terwijl dat ook over onderwerpen gaat waar ik niks mee heb? Bijv Alice in Chains, waar het meeste over het drugsgebruik van Layne Staley gaat. Misschien is het het geheel van tekst, flow/groove en of iets een goed liedje is. Check 2 vd 3 boxes en je bent al een heel eind. Hiphop laat te vaak sowieso 2 vd 3 links liggen, en dan blijft er maar 1 open om af te vinken. Het is te weinig voor me. Als ik het onderling moet vergelijken met andere hiphop in deze lijst, dan is dit niet veel beter dan de 50 cent gangstarap. We horen nog net geen geweerschoten, maar het n-woord wordt volop gebezigd. Het eindigt vervolgens ook met een samenwerking met TLC (en als bonus nog een keer 50 cent, dat zegt eigenlijk al weer voldoende). Missy is vooral bezig te laten zien hoe stoer ze wel niet is. Egocentrisch, zelfverheerlijking. Kansloosheid. Ik ben klaar met dit soort troep.

cRap!

Dear Missy. It's easy to hate your music without being a hater. I'm a pretty decent person but your "music" manages to mix boredom, irritation and the stupidest, most puerile lyrical content which seems to infest your genre. I'm going to listen to yesterday's album from Janelle Monae again. There is an artist worth listening to.

Nope.

Oh, for goodness sake.

Nä tack!

Even worse than the other Missy Elliott album. I did sorta try though.

Not a rap fan

Just not a rap fan.

Didn’t listen

Cringed more than sang along, not a pleasant listen but I don't think I am the target demographic, not sure who is.

i’m not really the right audience for this

Not the biggest Missy fan...which I think means I am not the biggest Timbaland production fan. 1.5/5

Так, ну этот альбом можно рассчитывать как ну норм фит с 50 цент и сборник кековых цитат, за это пожалуй плюс и добавлю. 1+. Особенно учитывая интро, где она наобещала на попадание в 1001...

Hated it first time round. Still do now.

bad. really bad.

worst so far 1

Pastiche to my ears

Why can't I rate albums that are really, really shit as a zero? I thought I'd got as low as I could get with Supa Dupa Fly, but this was worse. Oh well, only another 819 albums to go...

I have not listened to much from Missy Elliot, but there were at least a couple of tracks from Under Construction that I've heard before. The listening experience for me was a combiniation of okay, good or even great beats, combined with lyrics ranging from unfortunate to terrible. I could not listen to this again, and I can't recommend the album to anyone.

I didn't know this artist but it's not the kind of music I like.

Is this hip-hop? There are a few tracks where she gets to do her thing but it's like the record executives decided they wanted a R&b Beyonce clone with generic studio tricks sounding like Janet Jackson's daughter. Too slick with no heart, feeling or commitment. There's just too many layers of gloss to see deep down- I suspect underneath she's a talented artist with something to say but she's buried beneath the whoops and drum tracks.

Not for me!

Oh my gosh I did not like this one bit.

I really don't like hiphop. I can't really comment on the musical quality of this album within its genre, but to me it's unlistenable.

Y’a quelques bons beats. J’aimerais mieux que mes enfants écoute ça que du Cardi-B. Par contre, le propos est franchement stupide. Elles fait de long speech sur le féminisme et la paix dans le Hip-hop et ensuite elle rap que pour cruiser le gars, elle va faire son lavage, ou qu’elle va lui faire des affaires que les autres ne font pas... Bref, ce n’est pas tellement mon genre et je ne vois pas ce que ça peut apporter de neuf.

utter shite

Didn’t like

Byly dwa i jest i trzeci czarny pick z rzedu i albumy ukladaja sie w sensowna calosc, od plyty z kategorii magnum opus, przez ambitny rap z niecodziennym podejsciem do beatow, do mainstreamowego szlamu wczesnych lat 2k, bo takim szlamem jest under construction, czyli plyta z pogranicza rapu i r&b, ktora jest czwartym studyjnym krazkiem pani Missy Elliott, ktora dorobila sie jakze zaszczytnego przydomka krulowej rapu, nie wiem jak do tego doszlo, kto rozdawal te godnosci i ile musiala za nie zaplacic, bo o ile wczesniej slyszalem ja glownie na jakis featurach, tak po przesluchaniu calego albumu jestem zdziwiony jak ten album znalazl sie na liscie pana wyspiarza, bo o ile gangsta rap moze dobrze sie sluchac, pieniadze, dziwki i koks moga miec swoj hedonistyczny urok, tak taka tematyka u pani Missy brzmi jak zawodzenie menelicy, ktora nie moze sie zdecydowac czy chce rapowac, czy jednak woli spiewac chorki w r&b, sieden z czternastu trakow ma featury glownie rapowe, pewnie w tym mozna sie doszukiwac takiego sukcesu komercyjnego, no ale tez musiala zapewnic jakas luke na rynku i dac mlodym szlaufom gettciarskim jakis wzor do nasladowania, wiec stworzona persona thugowej gettciary mogla sie sprzedac, co do nazwisk pojawia sie tu chocby method man, ludacris, czy jay z z beyonce, nie mozna takze zapominac o kolaborantach na prodcuerce, bo tak generyczne 2k beaty mogla stworzyc tylko wyjatkowo mainstreamowa persona, a takom wlasnie jest Timberland, ktory jest odpowiedzialny za wiekszosc beatow Missy, wydaje mi sie, ze zle ocenilem wczorajszy albumik, teraz z czystym sumieniem dalbym mu trzy gwiazdki po odsluchaniu tej konstrukcji, jako jednej z najbardziej meczacych plyt ostatnio na liscie

Bring the Pain has a nice musical hook to it: musical, no lyrical. That's all I've got...

shite!

wtf is this commentary shit, fuck this garbage.

Just not good.

Love The Kinks!

I like this better than the first Missy album, but that's not saying a lot. At least she didn't rhyme "Missy" with "get pissy" this time.

I never mind that hip hip albums are more autobiographical than some music, but one thing I distinctly dislike is when an artists has to drop their own name every song. Maybe I'm selfish for wanting music to be more malleable and relatable to myself... I mean, who am I to discourage art as a form of raw self expression? It's just not within my taste.

Not for me

Meh

Yeah. This isn't for me.

Cringe

Not a fan at all

Terrible. I can’t handle it

this ain't for me

Meh... Liked this album a lot better when I was a kid