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It's definitely decent but not quite my style. 3 straight rap albums is a surprising run for me but I enjoyed it. 6/10
A groundbreaking effort - one of the first “cool” female hip-hop records. And cool is important, because there was definitely a lot of crap out there at the time.
Album #97 Missy Elliott: Supa Dupa Fly I’m not a big rap guy, but this album wasn’t too bad. For the most part, the singing was nice, and the beats were solid. However, the reason this album is getting a low rating is that the lyricism was just completely eye-roll-inducing. Is it a part of Timbaland’s contract that for every beat he makes, the rapper needs to have multiple bars on the track, glazing him and the beat? It felt like every song Elliott was waxing lyrical about how great the beat and Timbaland were, instead of actually rapping on the beat. It’s like when the cool kid agrees to hang out with you and your lame friends, so you just compliment him the whole time in hopes that he won't leave. Not to mention the fact that she seemed to have to constantly keep reassuring herself that she, too, was great and worthy of being on Timbaland’s beats. The most egregious example of this is from the song “I’m Talkin’” in which this is an actual lyric: “I’m such such a good rapper, I’m such such a good rapper”. As the age-old adage says: Show, don’t tell. Anyway, this album was a fine 90s rap album with some decent tracks, but she really isn’t the lyricist she thinks she is, and it definitely is not an essential listen. Best Tracks: The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly), Sock It 2 Me, Best Friends Worst Track: I’m Talkin’ Score out of 10:5
Same issue I have with all these 90s rap albums. Individual songs are all enjoyable. Album is so samey and hard to get through
All the respect to Missy, and from a history perspective, this was a very important album. But from a listening perspective, this is very boring and one note.
Can’t lie. At an hour run time this was a tough listen. Very dated and also bloated with skits. Missy upped her game later, but this particular time effort is not worthy of this list.
Ouais pas mal
Rating: 9/10 Missy has swag, Timbo has the beats. Great combination.
I think I hate hip hop more than I hate the fucking Beach Boys.
Not for me sorry, didn’t really enjoy this one. I suppose The Rain is ok but doesn’t make up for the rest of the album.
Rain
Awful.
Groundbreaking, the start of something amazing. I prefer her next couple of albums to this one but this one is great too.
She's so cool, she can swear and everything! Lyrics for teens music for the deaf
Das Debütalbum der US-amerikanischen Rapperin Missy „Misdemeanor“ Elliott entstand überwiegend 1996–1997 im Master Sound Studio in Virginia Beach, Virginia, und wurde vollständig von Timbaland produziert. Musikalisch bewegt sich das Album zwischen Hip-Hop, R&B und einer eigenwilligen Mischung aus Funk- und Soul-Einflüssen, die durch ungewöhnliche Rhythmik und sparsame Beats geprägt ist. Zu den bekanntesten Stücken zählen „The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)“, „Sock It 2 Me“, „Beep Me 911“ und „Hit Em wit da Hee“. Besonders „The Rain“ machte Elliott als Solokünstlerin bekannt und zeigt bereits die charakteristische Zusammenarbeit mit Timbaland, deren Produktionen stark auf minimalistische Beats und ungewöhnliche Klangfarben setzen. Das Album wirkt auch heute noch eigenständig: Der Sound ist reduziert, rhythmisch verschoben und lässt viel Raum für Elliots markante Stimme und ihren spielerischen Umgang mit Rap-Flows. Viele Tracks kombinieren Rap-Parts mit R&B-Hooks und Gastbeiträgen etwa von Da Brat, Ginuwine oder Aaliyah. Ein Debüt, das weniger auf konventionelle Songstrukturen als auf Atmosphäre und Rhythmus setzt und damit einen eigenständigen Stil im späten 1990er-Hip-Hop etabliert. Wer es mag, HIP-HOP halt.
Not one of my personal favourites. Unfortunately not improved with age either
As a rap fan, I never cared for Missy Elliott. Also, she unleashed Timbaland on the world and that is an unforgivable sin on its own.
I preferred the tracks on Under Construction, but this album had a lot less ego, Missy seems a lot sweeter, presenting us some proper old skool 90s R&B Izzy Izzy ah was my favourite I’m giving a 3 as it’s not really my kind of music, too smooth, but it deserves more
Enjoyed. 4/5
Okay.
Trash. 1/5
I know Missy was on this, but not as much as I would've expected.
Mediocre at its best points, which are few. The R&B is awful and the hip-hop is nothing remarkable.
Pop music, whether hip hop or any other style, is like muzak or hotel "art". It creates a mood, a wall of sound, but it doesn't offer much of anything substantive - emotionally, spiritually, or intellectually. Most pop genres, however, can lean on a catchy melody. By foregoing melody, however, hip hop offers only rhythm and lyrics. So it's always astonishing to me that so much hip hop, including this, is so lyrically banal and vacuous. I love Missy's singing voice. I'd love to hear her work up a collection of songs with a group of musicians rather than engaging in these silly projections of ego set to computerized hum and drone.
1/17 bekannt 5/10 Beste Songs: the rain, Izzy Izzy ahh, pass da blunt
Supa Dupa Chill! I enjoyed this a lot.
This didn't do anything for me
You can see the seeds of the Missy-Timbaland partnership here just starting to blossom, but overall it's not quite the fully-realized thing it would become later. This was in the realm of pretty-good-but-not-great for me. Title track is the highlight, but overall wanted more from the beats and bars than I got.
The first album in an illustrious career. Not her best work but a great intro.
Prime Missy + Prime Timbaland Productions = ⛽️
Music did indeed make me lose control
This is probably not Missy’s best project but the music is still incredible to listen to. I also understand the people saying that it went on because it is a super long debut album and it does drag at points. BUT the production, the hooks, the verses from rap legends and the historic debut of a Hip Hop legend in her own right. I love the way she blends R&B with rapping she was ahead of her time with it. Her & Timb, two 757 South East VA legends made a great album in totality. I would still hope to hear her better and more influential projects later.
I just don’t have the patience to listen to the few good songs from Missy’s albums
Solid and enjoyable. A starting point for for female rappers in the industry. Smooth, danceable and aggressive when needed. It has its flaws for sure: Missy isn't at her best yet, beats can be simplistic and repetitive.
Overlong but lots of invention, particularly for the era
Размеренный, спокойный, плавный альбом, приятные биты от Тимбалэнда, мягкий флоу. Я впервые полностью слушал этот альбом, раньше я слушал более поздние работы Мисси, было приятно познакомиться с ее дебютником.
This was very uninspiring. Overly long and dull. I liked the brass riff of 'Sock it 2 Me' and that was about it.
From the very first seconds I knew the production would be amazing. The album is good but it's too long. The songs kind of start to sound like each other after 1 hour. of runtime
Nice.
A very influential album by Missy with extremely creative production even by today's standards. 4/5
Якось занадто довго
I like the beats and the vibe, but lyrically, I feel like Missy Elliott just isn't a great rapper. Too many songs about smoking weed and how her and Timbaland have the best style.
Pretty cool. Even the weaker songs on the album had me interested. I guess my main complaint is that it is reliant on collabs but I guess it's just the done thing.
I don't think I understood more than 10% of the lyrics but I liked the album anyway.
p800. 1997. 1 star. Badly dated, foul mouthed rap/soul, with Destiny's Child reject songs. She's got a decent voice, but there is nothing to set her apart from a thousand other black female singers.
2.5
I'm sorry auntie, but this album has a lot of misses. Some great beats and tracks, but mostly filler/meh tracks. Absolutely fucks as a debut album though. Wish it held up better with time.
Backing tracks are definitely interesting, singing is nice, but the rap lyrics are mostly shallow, tedious, witless - so not my scene. Overall it's Okay - 5/10.
Another late 90s hip hop record. It was fine I don’t have any strong feelings here
Pretty decent. ME had this smooth, slower beat and rapping style that was pretty nice to listen too. A couple decent stand out songs on this project. And the classic self shout out where a rapper calls themselve the best.
A little more low energy than I was hoping from Missy Misdemeanor Elliot. Nothing outstanding for me, except for the fact that every new rap album I hear, I recognize a sample from a rap album years down the road. Friendly skies is sampled heavily on Brias interlude by Drake.
7/10
Not a huge fan of this genre, but this is decent. Snappy smart lyrics, great production, and it all flows quite nicely
Some really strong tracks and guest spots on here
Really enjoyable listen. The album has a smooth flow to it that keeps you engaged. I think the best part is that you really hear the type of artist that Missy Elliot becomes. She's shown her talent from the start, it's really no wonder why she got so big. "Izzy Izzy Ah" is the favorite here.
Freitag, 20.02.2026 ~ vormittags ~ Im 101er Richtung Zehlendorf gehört. Angefangen, für nicht gut befunden, aufgegeben.
Mittwoch 25.02.2026 Warten auf die U9 und dem Weg zu meiner Schwester, ihre Besichtigungen reinzulassen, beim kochen (keine Ahnung mehr was)
if you can read polish, the title is much more accurate
Impressive, but I'm not the target audience
My goal is to never listen to this again.
THAT'S WHY SHE'S THE SHIT!!!!
Good
There are hits and there are misses. It is a fine debut, but it could have been trimmed.
Missy is one of the better female rappers but she is certainly no Lauryn Hill. Favorite track: Rain
Slick early Timbaland beats accompanied with sick rhymes from Missy. I really enjoyed this.
Sorry, doesn't click at all
Chuli
It just came across as being so self centered and juvenile. Maybe that was the theme of the album given its title but that doesn't make it better. A full hour worth of tracks saying how you're the best isn't a good listen.
Nu skulle æ skrive noen ord om det her albumet og så tok æ mæ i å tenke at æ vil høre det en gang til, så sånn sett va det jo en vellykka introduksjon. Sjøl om det føles feil å kalle det en introduksjon, for Missy Elliot har æ jo kjent til omtrent så lenge æ kan huske, og har synes va kul omtrent like lenge. Så også i det her tilfellet.
Why are so many hip-hop albums an hour or more long? I didn’t hear anywhere near enough variability to justify it. This very quickly turned into background music for me. A few songs caught my ear but not enough for me to ever come back to this one. Yo-Yo remains my female rapper of choice.
missy elliott; i really think she's one of the greatest female artists when it comes to hip hop. this is her debut. her music blends a bit of humor with smooooooth womanly grace. her stylish, chilled out and often quirky hip hop songs are just starting to blossom here with her first collection of songs. the way she sings and raps... it just sounds effortless. this is someone who knows their style by heart and cooks up some hot stuff like it was a typical tuesday morning. perfect album for bumping in a car i think. plus collabs with some other big names... it's VERY solid.
Such a great Hip Hop record. Timberland, The Brat, Busta, pure 90s goodness
Just some banger 90's hip-hop. 4.5 bumped up to 5.
I’m at a 4. Missy Elliott’s debut, and honestly? A pretty damn good debut. Timbaland’s production is really on point here, occasionally jumping ahead about 5 years in ways that feels really ahead of everyone else in 1997, most apparent on “Beep Me 911”, which is probably my favorite track here. Missy’s rap flow is just as good as it was on “Under Construction”, as is her singing voice, and she never puts in a bad performance. Her lyricism hasn’t quite caught up though, and between that & the album losing a lot of its steam after “Izzy Izzy Ahh”, that’s where I’m stuck at a 4. This album does roll really nicely through its first 12 tracks, but once “Friendly Skies”, “Best Friends” & “Don’t Be Comin’” kinda hit a one-note topic for all of their runtimes, along with “Izzy Izzy Ahh” rehashing some of the “Me & Timbaland are REALLY good together!” topics that were already touched on earlier in the album, the cracks fully start to come in with “Why You Hurt Me”. I do think it’s a good track, but it’s an unbefitting track, and one that feels needlessly mean for an album centered around black female empowerment. I understand warning the ladies not to get too promiscuous to the point where it hurts your image, but affirming it by calling Loosie Booty an “ugly bitch”, along with the ‘chicken’ & ‘cotton-pickin’ lines feels like a direct antithesis to everything Missy has preached about on the album to that point, even if it’s just used as shock value for emphasis. It derails the whole thing to me. “I’m Talkin’” is… well, it’s just “Izzy Izzy Ahh” again, really, and nowhere near as catchy. It’s the same thing that plagued Queen Latifah’s debut album where the entire track is just about herself, and we’ve kinda done that already. If you have to sing “I’m such a good rapper” in your chorus, it feels a little off, you know? “Gettaway” is fine, but none of the 3 verses really connect at all, making the track feel incomplete. Since it’s the closing track of the album, it’s a really weak way to finish off the whole thing, especially with Busta Rhymes talking about a “whole emotional rollercoaster” right after. If this album had ended at “Izzy Izzy Ahh”, or even ended on “I’m Talkin’” with all the shoutouts at the end, I might be inclined to look past the slow stumble and bump this up to a 5, but I can’t do it in good faith. I think it’s still worth listening to, don’t get me wrong, but it is frustrating that this got hit with the CD bloat curse. It’s certainly influential, and deserves a lot of the awards it got for its individual tracks, but there’s a reason the album dwindles in plays on Spotify the longer it goes – the later tracks are just that much weaker. It’s still definitely a 4, entirely on the strength of the first 12 tracks, but that’s kinda where the ceiling sits. It just doesn’t finish satisfyingly as a full album, even when it gets 80% of the way there. I did enjoy it though, and I’ll definitely add a lot of these to my big playlist. Really fun stuff, for the most part. Just a 4 though.
First Listen; 2.5; For whatever reason, this really didn't grab me. Interesting enough and enjoyable in places, but at the same time felt like the fun hooks and moments were far apart. Favorite Track: Gettaway
This record has many highs and lows, which ultimately make it just "okay". Favourite Track(s): Friendly Skies, Best Friends Least Favourite Track(s): The Rain, Pass Da Blunt
3.5
finally listening to Missy Elliot properly, lfg. I was doing my hair listening to this album, and istg the bouncing of the knees and stank face never stopped wow
I like Missy Elliott but not a huge fan of her music.
not bad
Previously rated: #402 - Under Construction (2/5) *********************************** Album #1,042 I didn't care for her 2002 album. This one is five years earlier, and hopefully better, but I'll be honest -- braggadocios women are very unappealing to me, and I can tell from the album title and her pose on it, there won't be a great deal of humility here. Yeah, there wasn’t. It wasn’t *as* filthy as I thought it would be but this ego rap/r&b stuff just doesn’t appeal at all. I was thinking how strange a Beatles album would be if they name dropped George Martin as many times as she does Timbaland here.
Enjoyed this more than I thought I would.
If there's one thing I've learned about Missy Elliott, it's that she can't stand the rain (against the window). Honestly, I wasn't sure at the start but I was really enjoying it by the end. Missy has won me round somewhat. That being said, my favourite misheard lyric so far was believing she was announcing her bowel issues after smoking some weed: "Pass the blunt on the left hand side, I've got the runs" Favourites: Izzy Izzy Ahh I'm Talkin' Getaway
Eh, it was fine but not something I’m looking to hear again
Mediocre rap from that era. There were a few hits, a bunch of filler, and some really cringy skits. For the most part, this is just Timbaland.
4/5 https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/missy-misdemeanor-elliott/supa-dupa-fly/ Far from the absolute canon of hiphop and definitely too long, but sure has some great beats and features, and Missy’s laid-back rapping can be quite hypnotizing.
Ikke min musikk.
Okay, I tried. Listened to the first 3, didn’t quite make it through the 4th. After that I’d get about 30 seconds into the next track and skip that one too, went like that until we got to the song “Don’t come on my face” - and that was it for me. I can’t understand most of the lyrics on this album and the ones I can are pretty vulgar. I guess there’s someone out there for whom this is art or culture or both, it’s neither for me.
Revelation and my new female hip-hop artist; not one track out of place, beats by Timbaland outstanding. Missy has a great voice, fantastic timing and flow. True Diva of the genre.
yea
Not my musical genre; I do not see myself seeking out her songs or downloading her music; having said that I can nonetheless appreciate her artistry. Other performers in this musical area have made me cringe & listening to them is absolute agony. This album, however, wasn’t a bad listening experience.
Wow! Amazing hip hop album.
Not my usual genre but pretty enjoyable with some nice variety
A solid foundation in the beats made this a surprisingly enjoyable listen (as this is definitely outside my genres of choice). I found Missy's direct address at the end very endearing and human as well.
Oh, not another bloody rap album! Hang on, there's creativity here, the lyrics aren't overtly offensive (still crass occasionally), the tunes are pretty slick, the production (like most Rap albums) is quality. There's thought, inventiveness, chill, variety and enjoyment in here. Massive surprise, didn't immediately want to switch it off. 'I'm talking' probably the low point (and takes it from 7/10 to 6/10k. But mostly enjoyable.
Not for me. Too stressful and too much cursing.
I try and be open minded but this album is utter shite. Got nothing good to say about it. If I could give it a minus score for “Izzy Izzy ahh” ( what the fuck is that shite) I would. So it’s a begrudging 1 star
solid hip hop, catchy, the good stuff.
I spent a lot of time trying to decide how I felt about this album. By the time it was over I wasn’t even really sure that I had heard the musical stylings of Missy Elliott. I heard a half dozen guest artists, and I heard the compositions of Timbaland, but I don’t know that I could recognize what part of it was Missy. Maybe that’s not a bad thing. It’s a palatable album over and there were multiple times I found myself nodding or moving to the beat. But there was nothing so remarkable about this album, nor a song so iconic that it will remain in my head for the foreseeable future.
This is a good, maybe even great album. The problem for me is I typically think about that wedding room, and I don't know where Missy Elliott sits, at the front, the side, the middle. The genre, a cross between mild rap, hip hop and pop... It is fun and actually funny at times. I had fun listening to this. I suppose I just don't think I am qualified in this genre area to give an accurate rating. I might say it would naturally be a four for me, but I don't KNOW enough of the canon; what if it turned out she has a crowd ahead of her and I am simply ignorant? Letting the music speak for itself I would say it is absolutely worth a solid listen.
This feels like a debut album, which is both a statement about its quality and an acknowledgement that Missy went on to more creative things. This one though sounds like an artist finding her voice, and it's similar enough to other R&B acts of the era as to feel a bit anonymous. I say R&B because there may be more singing here than rapping. Missy's not a bad singer, but she's not such a great singer that her singing can carry the album. Maybe it could if the beats were great, but they're also merely good. Their biggest problem is that they're very minimal and don't change much; the actual ideas in the beats are quite creative, but those ideas just can't sustain the songs for their entire length. Especially in the second half, which is mostly slow jams. An enjoyable enough album that just goes on for too long without doing enough special things.
Sian score
Surprised how much I liked this. It’s really all timbalands production which is undeniably enjoyable and unique to him. Later albums produced by him I loved so this naturally touched on all that nostalgia. The songs themselves were fine, not mind blowing but the production carried it
YES YES YES I LOVE MISSY ELLIOTT Sock it 2 Me!!!! Supa Dupa Fly!!!!!!! Pass da Blunt!!!!! Best Friends!!!!!! All of them actually!!!!!! such a great album!!!! the features, the lyrics, the samples, the instrumentals, the flows, etc, etc.........!!!!!! the intro and outro!!!! i really do think missy elliott is such a supremely talented artist....1 of 1 babyyyyYyy......also crazyyyy for a debut too !! thinking this will be my first 5 🤭
fireeeeee missy is so her 4.5
My daughter immediately started to dance, but what does she know, she's 1.
I didn't get to listen to the whole album, but that's fine. I get the gist. It wasn't really for me.
The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)
absolutely brilliant
Came in not expecting to like it. In the rain is amazing and I really enjoyed the first half. I think it dropped off towards the end though
Extra point awarded for the rain
Great beats and vibe
Hip Hop. Coisa linda.
Pavimentou o caminho do bem com o timbaland
I've known of her for years but never listened to any of her work before. As someone that not heavily into this style of music, I can't deny it was pretty darn solid. There's some good beats here!
This was fine. None of the songs are bad, but few stand out. 3.1
This isn’t her at her best. She’s young and she hasn’t found her voice yet. In fact, it’s kinda, dare I say it, boring. Better things were to com for her. 2.5
My second Missy Elliott album for this in the space of about a week! None of the songs on here are quite as good as "Work It", but the production here sounds great and overall I prefer this album. I looked a bit more into her career and found out she started out her career as a producer for people like Aaliyah, so I guess I shouldn't really be shocked her own album has great production.
Some good samples in tracks but very much of the f and n brand of rap, tiresome.
Cool
Missy Elliott is a really unique hip hop artist and a breath of fresh air sometimes. Not that there aren't a lot of greats in the genre, but she manages to escape the usual cliches, particularly for women, to make something fresh and interesting. She's not a sex symbol (though there's some confident sex positive content there) and she blends her style of rapping with Afro-futurism of the music (aided by Timbaland) and her visual style. The surreal use of the eyefish lenses and oversized silver plastic jump suits where groundbreaking when Missy Elliott arrived on the scene and still an iconic image of the 90s for me. I really enjoyed this album, particularly lead single "The Rain".
OK
I expected much more from this album. The lyrics were never that grabbing, and the beats lacked a much-needed energy that holds this album back in a tough way. Some decent moments but a lot to move past. Top tracks: Sock It 2 Me, Friendly Skies
Cool, and could see this growing on me. But not something I see myself turning to again and again.
can sound a bit samey on the surface but it's worth paying attention
5, was ne Frage?!?
Amazing listening to this for the first time in a while and realising quite how many subsequent albums it influenced. Also amazing how little it seems to have dated.
missy elliott has some bangers but they weren't on this album
Back in the day I paid about £20 for this piece of s*** on CD (american import) just because I liked Timberland and the single "The Rain". Not that i'm in any way bitter about it....... and I didn't learn any lessons from it either.
Not really aware of Missy Elliotts work but I really enjoyed the album
Not awful, awful but tediously long and instrumentally bland. A strong 1 star
Skits and dross bury the couple of bangers.
Love this. Timbaland's statacco beats still sound so good, and Missy just comes out fully formed here.
Was excited to get an album by one of the best female rappers to do it. Instead the whole album, minus two tracks are all just forgettable R&B trash. Why did this album make the list?
Yeah not really for me. Not horrible or anything. Just not really my taste.
Plenty of spoken word hip-hop and R&B with some choice backing tracks.
This album slaps. Missy’s rapping is infectiously fun with her swag and braggadocio, and the Timbaland beats never take their foot off the gas. Highly recommend.
I never really listened to Missy Elliott but I thought this was very good. Production was excellent, features were pretty good, although used in an old school way, and vocals were good. I liked it more than I thought I would. Better than that mumble crap they make today that's for sure.
This album shines more when Missy has more verses and Timbaland gets more and more in to his own head on the beats and production. The prime example is "The Rain" of course but "Pass da blunt" has the same kind of vibe. Missy's early style is more my speed; I like her off beat (literally) phrasing and her capability to drag a sentence over multiple bars without using a pile of filler words. As the album keeps going it unfortunately gets less interesting. The production gets a bit more simplistic and falls in to the 90's method of electronic drums and mostly live sounding instruments. The raps get more simplistic and the style less interesting. The R&B songs are really forgettable (Why You Hurt Me, Friendly Skies). Thankfully it closes out on Gettaway, which has a great beat and Missy takes the center stage despite the extra features. I liked this, I just think there's too much filler.
I don't know if the proper magnitudes exist to discuss how much better Missy Elliott is than her modern contemporaries. Tons of great features from the names of the days on great tracks. Adding it into rotation.
Besides the outros, was ok, but nothing magical. Busta’s Intro ★★★☆☆ Hit ’em Wit da Hee ★★★☆☆ Sock It 2 Me ★★★☆☆ The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly) ★★★☆☆ Beep Me 911 ★★★☆☆ They Don’t Wanna F*** Wit Me ★★★☆☆ Pass da Blunt ★★★☆☆ Bite Our Style (interlude) ★★★☆☆ Friendly Skies ★★★☆☆ Best Friends ★★★☆☆ Don’t Be Commin’ (in My Face) ★★★☆☆ Izzy Izzy Ahh ★★★☆☆ Why You Hurt Me ★★★☆☆ I’m Talkin’ ★★★☆☆ Gettaway ★★★☆☆ Busta’s Outro ★☆☆☆☆ Missy’s Finale ★☆☆☆☆ Average Album Rating: 2.8/5.0 ★★★☆☆
3.5
2
If I could give this negative stars I would
90s Rap, may have been a step forward to have a successful woman in a male dominated field, but that's doesn't make me like the music.
Not doing song specific notes for this one, I don’t think. I’m a little tired so I know it’s affecting my ability to enjoy a pretty slow album, but this is a solid 3 for me. I know it’s a good album, it’s just not the music that feels good to listen to right now. Standout favorite is as Sock It 2 Me. Otherwise it’s pretty good, just nothing particularly clicked with me, personally.
hell yeah
Mid 90s hip hop. I like elements of it but it was quite a long album and not all of it spoke to me.
Easy listening
It’s amazing that an album this long has zero memorable songs, choruses, bridges, or even musical refrains. It wasn’t horrible but why was this even included? Not my taste at all
i agree, she is supa dupa fly
Awesome oldschool hip-hop. Was great at the time of release, now sound even better after all those cardib's
Meh
A forgotten favorite for sure.
Not my favorite album or songs from Missy Elliott but as a whole it's still really good. The beats and some of the "singing" noises she does from time to time is really nostalgic so this definitely was a fun look back.
Missy makes rap easy to listen to. Loved the song with Aaliyah, Best Friends
Great album Aaliyah’s song was really good.
Hmm, many of the 'older' hip hop albums on this journey I have enjoyed. But will I like this, given that I have not enjoyed - have actively disliked - the little I've heard from Missy till now? She never seemed like a serious rapper to me - her music videos all having some dance routine. Dance routine = manufactured pop = no cred. Another mark against her is that she seems to have only influenced some of the worst music and worst people of today. But perhaps this album has some good stuff. At least it doesn't seem to have that awful freak on song. Well. It's painfully formulaic, predictably repetitive, and like the worst of female led 90s RnB, it feels robotic and too percussive. Some people like that and that's fine. I suppose you could dance to it if you were of such a mind. But yeah, not very good, lacks the quality I expect to be included on such a list, but it's probably fair that some Missy album or other appears here given her impact. This one tho? Bland, barren, tuneless. One final note - those 'beats' you hear people inexplicably praising, you know, by far the easiest most talent-free part of music creation? They sound like a toddler gently tapping two plastic spoons together. Beats, my arse.
Very good fun album but not her best although it was better produced. She was more raw and looked hungrier before and maybe the excess of rapper friends firepower was too much. Like her a lot and it is a good album thou
Listenable, not mind blowing!
Not for me
I like the melodic flourishes the best, but much of the album seems designed just to punish you w the same beat or motif over and over
missy elliot never misses
Overall: 5/10 I can appreciate what Missy was doing on this album while also not really enjoying it all that much. Her music just doesn't do much for me and I think it's because of Timbaland's production. I think her later albums are better. Fav Song: The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)
Not my taste
Not too sure about this album. I can be wrong but most tracks have the same bpm? and very similar beats/hooks.
This was a fun album, but I think it ultimately left me wanting more from Missy. While I enjoyed it, I actually wanted more of her rapping. This album seems to straddle the hip hop/ r&b line, and I really like when Missy is more on the hip-hip/rap side of things. Good listen overall.
Not exactly what I was expecting for a Christmas Day album but it wasn’t the worst. The song with Aaliyah was by far the best, and the amount of big names that are featured on this album was also impressive.
Missy Elliott just isn't my thing. The beats are good, and I'm not denying her greatness. She's just not for me. An hour is a long time for something to not be for you.
Meh? It wasn't really anything that interested me.
Man Missy Elliott was such a superstar while I was in middle school and high school. She really paved the way for the Lizzo’s, Nikki Minaj’, and Megan Thee Stallion’s of the world. Her debut is a very solid record. It’s a bit long like most hip hop albums of the era, but there isn’t much fluff here and it serves as great background music for a workout or to vibe to.
Not my thing. Not actively irritating but not my thing.
Kinda doesnt do it for me much. Like she's a great singer but im less stoked on the rapping she does. Its serviceable I guess but thats not a huge endorsement. And the biggest issue sadly is timberland. Ive liked some of his stuff before but this is so incredibly basic. I dont know fruity loops but I bet give me like 2 days I could recreate some of not all of these beats. Its nothing in the worst possible ways. Dude got alot of hits and good on him but I can tell in a bad way. Mass market bullshit. And why does she constantly brag about having this wet towel of a producer making this shit? It just doesn't make sense. At the end of the day its alright. Alot here I dont like though. The slow songs are great, specifically my best friend and friendly skies. Great songs. Other than that id say its less than ideal
Not a big fan but I'm not averse to this. If it came on the radio, I wouldn't turn it off but can't pick out anything to play on repeat.
I like Missy. I thought it was a decent debut although I think Missy definitely has better songs on future albums.
The beats on this are great but I never really cared for Missy's style. So over all the album started pretty good but as it went on it got kind of boring.
Havde det sjovt mens jeg lyttede til den, men det er også lidt hurtigt glemt igen. Mere relevant for Timbalands karriere end Missys, egentlig
Ikke lige så skør som de senere ME plader (negativt) men super fede beats. For lang
Didn't actively hate this until I saw I was only halfway through.. No stand out tracks, but just a lot of 90s R'n'B.. I'm not sure I got who produced this? Could I get his name again? Tender Man? Tindermayn? 🫠
It’s great but not necessarily for me
I’m sure this has a place in history but just doesn’t work for me. The music doesn’t really stand out and lyrics don’t relate. 2/5
Not nearly as good or consistant as "Under Construction" is. The Timbaland production is phenomenal but honestly most of these songs are either annoying or dull. There are enough pockets of everything actually coming together, and I'm a sucker for Timbaland so this barely escapes a 2 rating. Missy Elliott is fine on the mic, sometimes genius sometimes wtf?
Not what I would usually listen to. But good vocals and interesting music.
Přeskakovala jsem, není to úplně můj styl, hip hop.
Missy and Timba, a powerful combination. If it only brought us The Rain, it would be tremendous use of the 2 weeks they used to make this album. The rest is gravy...savory, delicious gravy.
Great 1st listen for me and really liked it. Some notes... The first song of Missy's debut album is Busta Rhymes introducing Missy. There's a thank you / prayer at the end before closing out the last song... don't see either of those much. Missy & Timbaland is awesome. This would be a solid album without lyrics but cool hearing generational talents.
Cool beats and great production. Mood setting music that I don’t really get but can appreciate
So classic and so good the missy / timbaland sound is in full effect and such a great vibe throughout. She established herself as a force to be reckoned with on this album.
Tolerable for the most part but this isn't my thing at all.
Good stuff. Move Missy. This album falls off a cliff when she literally starts saying "I'm so good at rapping." Could have been a near-perfect 40-min. record. But it's a solid 7.
Nope
6.0/10
Didn't grab me
Oh... This is an hour? Shit. Stock it to me, they don't wanna fuck with me, I'm talkin'; there was a couple standout but I also wasn't paying close attention, doing shopping and stuff. Not my style, but this was an easier listen than I would have thought !
Pretty fun and funky listen.
Meh.
Real good.
Slick production & flow from Missy and Timbaland. Maybe a tad bloated, but that appears to just be the trend with a lot of the big 80s and 90s hip-hop albums
Enjoyed the blend of rap and r&b on this one. Missy is the queen of rap no matter what any one has to say lmao
Great Album but holy shit Timbaland shut your fucking mouth
Also not really made for me but it had it's moments Will I listen to again: 1%
Timbaland is one of the best producers of all time. Missy's still developing as a rapper on this album, but it wasn't an unpleasant experience.
Fine - didn't feel the need to listen to the whole thing
It was fine
Missy is one of the greats. She hit with so much excitement, weirdness and expressiveness. Her collaboration with the peerless producer Timbaland yields diamonds. The album, though, is brought down by too much filler, and Missy’s incomprehensible need to be Mary K. Blige half the time. I want sassy, rapping Miss Demeanor, not the r’n’b stuff. And the back half of the album is larded with a lot of middling tracks. I wanted this to be at least a four, but that last half sadly brought it down.
Slightly groovier than I expected and clearly influential - just a little bit too long
Can definitely see how this is good for people that like rap. Just doesn’t click for me.
Decent listen.
Fire
When you invite all your popular friends over to your party it doesn't always guarantee a good time. There's bound to be some highlights but not every moment is fab — especially if some of them have been telling the same joke since the late 90s. That out of the way, Timbaland's now classic production set the table for Missy (and her friends) and that combo is why the album sounds as good as it does well over 25 years later.
The 90s were a time. Timbaland, at his timbalandist. Fun raps lots of guests, some legendary ie Aaliyah and Busta some I do not remember if I ever heard of - 702, magoo, etc. The production while painfully timbalandish is good. Ann Peebles sample, memphis shit. Everyone seems like they're having a good time.
Had zero expectations going into this, but I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. Not my usual cup of tea, but I found myself nodding along to almost all songs on this record. She says herself in the last "song" that the record was produced by Timbaland, and I thought "aha, that's why it sounds so good", knowing he's revered in the hip hop industry for good sounding beats. It feels weird, but I kind of want to put a weak 4 on this. Mostly I think I just got really excited about actually appreciating an album when hearing it for the first time, which is very unusual for me.
Love Miss Elliott but this was a pretty weak record. She really stepped up her game on later records. The only memorable sample and song was "The Rain". 2 star.
What a good debut album. Timbaland’s production and Missy were made for each other. I’d never listened to this album beyond the singles, but i think it stands up against her best work. The procession of guests perfectly complement their tracks. I’ll even forgive the trademark Ginuwine boinging noises.
I wouldn’t say I’m a fan of Missy Elliot except for the way any millennial is a fan, but I quite enjoyed this. It’s a solid mix of rap and R&B, with vocals I wasn’t expecting from Missy! It also has a fabulous array of featured artists, and noticing all the various samples was fun.
I only knew The Rain (which I don't like) going into this. I found the whole thing really slow, boring.and repetitive. Not even the appearance of Busta, a man whose voice genuinely makes me smile, saved this. I didn't hate it, but have no desire to ever listen to it again. Would get a 1.5 but I can't justify a 1 so it's getting a default 2. 2/5
Довольно стандартное поп-рэп. Лучшая песня - Sock It 2 Me.
Just a hot mixtape. So many great beats.
Fresh as fuck. Tight as fuck. Dynamic. Futuristic. Funky as hell. BANGIN'. Some of the most original and absolute best beats of the 90s and beyond. This shit is as good as beats get PERIOD. It's that Missy/Timbaland shit and this is that album. PRIME SHIT. It doesn't get better than this. 10/10. Perfect album.
Kinda slow and heavy in a good/chill kinda way. I like it.
6.5/10
Missy was big when I was in high school, but just not where I lived. This one has a couple of her big hits that slap, but there's a bunch of duds here too. I do like all the collabs with other big name artists from the time. Great production value too.
Its no for me,this album.
The album is ok, just ok. I wanted to like it given that it was her first album but it's pretty forgettable
From the music of Missy Elliott’s that I’d heard prior to this, I was expecting risks, creativity and excitement. This albums wasn’t any of that. All pretty dull and forgettable.
Up-and-down songs. Old-style hip hop. Starts of good but kind of drops off towards the end.
7/10
Not as catchy as I thought it would be - even the singles didn’t have like a hook or line like I thought they would - not an album I would reach for but get that it probably had a big impact when it came out
Definitely not my thing…couldn’t do it. But I tried….
Classic Missy Elliot with those Timberland backings...LOVE IT.
Get this crap out of here.
Missy Elliott's raps and song arrangements are a bit more palatable to listen to then your typical hip hopper, but her album still suffers from the inexcusable bloat. This album is not tight, but it could have been if the intro and outro by Busta Rhymes and about half the songs (particularly the back half of the record where it seriously drags) were cut. Lyrically speaking, the subjects are a tad more universal and relatable than was typical for this era. Missy seems to focus on love, passion, and female pride/ego/narcissism. The album title comes from the track "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)" which misuses a sample from Tina Turner's excellent song "I Can't Stand the Rain". I feel like the sample added nothing creative or necessary for the track and it just detracted from Elliott's lyrical skill. The song also detracts from the flow of the album in general. While I can be convinced that Missy Elliott might belong on this list, I can not be convinced that this is the album of hers that belongs on here. Maybe MISS E...SO ADDICTIVE would have been a better choice. I cannot be convinced that more than one album of hers belongs on this list. I think the most notable thing on this album is how forward Timbaland's production design and sound moved hip hop. Nothing sounded like this at the time, but very soon after, it became far more common.
For fans of the genre this is probably a great album and I can see it was well received when released. However it just isn't for me, not much for me to like here, a couple of tracks were okay but that's it really.
Ok
I quite like Missy Elliott, and appreciate this album probably broke ground for female artists, but it's just a bit dull for me. More r&b than rap/hip hop, and whilst it's impressive she was able to attract a producer and guest stars on her first album, it feels like it relies on them a lot.
Some ok slower songs but not for me.
bad
Good vibes
Really solid album with a lot of supporting players
Catchy. Not really my style, but it was catchy. I remember when this album came out and some of the music videos really took me back to my youth.
Produced well. Most of the songs are slower than I would maybe like
The beats are quite good on this album. Love the production here and there's some great songs being interpolated and sampled. Missy Elliott has a nice flow too, usually reserved but there's times where she's flying through bars. I don't really click with the album though. It's kind of long and the songs that didn't have nice samples didn't really latch onto me. Fine album, important album but probably needs a relisten to appreciate it more.
Yassss, Missy. Every time I hear a 90’s female rapper it just reminds me of how Bo$$ released a single album under Def Jam and it FUCKING SLAPPEDDDD. But then she got sick/took a break for awhile, and upon trying to come back, Def Jef (who she recorded with) approached tons of huge indie labels… who all just asked what she looked like. You are not allowed to be a successful female rapper without also being a sex icon. Actually, one of the big appeals of Bo$$ for me was her gangsta style and “lack" of sexuality. She was tough. And then she died… Sorry this has nothing to do with Missy Elliot. She absolutely deserves the fame she has achieved, as well. Her mother and her escaped domestic abuse from her father, and in seeing her mother’s strength in this situation, she recognised her own strength. Very positive music for someone who endured a lot. I’m giving this album 4 stars, though it's realistically more a 3, purely bc of what it represents. I don’t think it’s Missy’s best, but it is her debut.
Really enjoyed the listen, it kind of connects the dots on the development of women’s rap and it’s role in greater hip hop culture at the turn of the century. While I did enjoy it, not what I was expecting from Missy Elliot
Enjoyed this album. Very laid back compared to what I knew of missy elliot. Lots of great featured rnb artists.
I mean, maybe I should've expected this out of a Virginia hip hop artist, but this is easily one of the most laid-back hip hop records I've ever heard. I don't know if it's Missy Elliot's very careful, cunning, and carefully paced rhymes and delivery, or if it's Timbaland's sorta bare, simplistic, and spacey beats, or maybe the various RnB fusions that find their way onto most songs here, via Missy's singing or some guest vocalist - but I just felt so at ease listening to this. Unfortunately, it suffers from being too long for how one-trick it is, which I've come to expect from albums from around this period (but hey, at least no annoying skits). Definitely would've enjoyed this album more in a more chilled-out context - because after just one listen, I feel like this album doesn't really tailor itself to a fully-focused type of listen. Again, not bad or anything, it's just Missy Elliot's flow is really really laid-back and not very lyrically complex at all - I know I keep using the words "laid-back" and "chill", but I can't emphasize it enough - that is the appeal here for me. So yeah, not a huge fan of the album as a whole, I don't think, but some great songs in the mix here regardless. 'Sock It 2 Me' is maybe the closest thing here to a conventional banger, with this sort of dorky, but kind of charming cinematic beat driving the whole thing. On the R&B end, I really liked the slow jam 'Friendly Skies' and the following duet with Aaliyah 'Best Friends', which has such a sweet message behind it, and a super satisfying back-and-forth with the legend herself - probably my favorite song here. The song 'I'm Talkin' has an almost horrorcore Memphis feel to it, a style, now that I think about it, Missy Elliot clearly draws a lot from. This song is also the most cut-throat thing here, on the lyrical front. So yeah, while it's certainly a bloated record at the end of the day, I did enjoy the ride, generally speaking, despite it slowing my heart rate down to dangerous levels.
The list would've been good with one Missy Elliott album...and not this one.
Much better than the previous Missy Elliott album. Some good tracks, some a bit pedestrian. The album could have done with being a bit shorter. Scrapes ⭐⭐⭐, just.
Not a fan
Not bad, but definitely not my favorite work of Missy's. What makes Missy Eliott special is that her best music is pretty unique and catchy, it doesn't sound like it follows the normal R&B formula. This however sounds pretty generic compared to her later work and leans heavily on featured artists.
supa dupa
I think I can tell she's good, but as someone who is new to the Missy Elliott scene, I could not always tell which performer was her. This is a fundamental issue I have with rap albums, where every track features one or more other talented artists. Who are we actually showcasing here? Unpopular opinion, but I think it's more the producer than anyone else...
A little long but pretty decent. Laid back songs, slick Timbaland production, good vocals.
Not a fan of the genre but she can “sing”.
Listened to a couple of tracks. Not my style
Podria saltarme los skits, como en todos los discos de hip-hop o rap, y sin ellos el disco mejora bastante. No es mi favorito de Missy, pero entiendo el valor historico que tiene.
Enjoyed the plethora of features! Felt cohesive on some tracks. Overall, felt timeless. Missy is dope.
I remember Missy being huge after this but I never did get it. All of the Timbaland/Puffy beats are essentially the same: slow and melodic. That being said there are a few bangers in here and this album is just fine not great but just ok.
The singles are great, a real time capsule, Timbaland time.
Hmmmmm
This was pretty fun.
Extremly repetetive after 5 songs. really didn't need to be 1h. Not bad but nothing wow about it either. also think this is the second album on this list...
Missy Elliott was more influential than most people here might think. Hip-hop was certainly nothing new in 1997, but for a woman to actually break through in the genre was huge. She certainly wasn't the first of her kind of course, but her rapping presence here over these almost futuristic-sounding beats were certainly attention-grabbing. The accompanying music videos were unique for their time too, helping elevate Missy into the mainstream. Having Timbaland on production played a huge role in what I just mentioned, curating a signature sound representative of the new millennium. There are a TON of guest features here (Aaliyah, Lil' Kim, Busta Rhymes, among may others) which might take away from Missy a bit, and I'd probably consider some of her later albums the "better" works, but everyone starts somewhere. This "somewhere" was the launching pad for a superstar.
I thought I would enjoy this more than I did. But the album felt too repetitive and timbalands style has not aged well at all.
Classic Missy
Missy Elliott's influence is completely undeniable and demands attention. This is a good album. But I am beginning to wonder about the selection process here: are they just picking culturally significant artists' first records because without them, we don't get the others? So far we've had Elvis, Coldplay, Missy Elliott, maybe one or two others I'm blanking on. This definitely isn't Missy Elliott's best; it's great, no doubt about it, but if we're meant to interpret this list as the "greatest" (or at least the most culturally transformative) albums ever, I don't know why this was picked over something that was to come down the road from her. Oh well. Still a good listen, and when it was over, I was sad to see it go. Guess that counts for something. We better get some fucking MF DOOM from this thing if it's gonna give us this one.
I like when missy says “blizzy-blizzy-blahzah-blahzay”. My cat liked it too and she normally only likes Nickelback or Slipknot.
What an iconic choice having Busta Rhymes interludes bookending the album. There are definitely ideas that were improved upon later, but this is a great foundation for that future growth. My sense of time always gets so fucked up when I see all the different collaborators and features coming together like this. Really saw then vision of this as a cornerstone in that late 90's sound. 4-4.5
Oops, I was gonna complain about the lack of hip hop so far and then we get hit with this classic. We’ve all heard ‘Under Construction,’ but Missy feels a lot freer on this one. She and Timbaland are just so good together, but these songs don’t feel as timeless as anything on ‘Under Construction.’ I do think it’s weird that Busta is the first voice we hear on her debut album, but overall a great feature list. Da Brat is underrated. Lil Kim, Ginuwine, and Aaliyah all on the same album is nuts! Great stuff.
Incredibly influential album but I know Missy and Timbaland hit their stride a few years later. Thinking 30 years ago this was probably a breath of fresh air but it’s just missing that spark for me to rate it higher, especially knowing what they do later.
Dude I’m a pretty recent convert to Missy Elliott (actually listened to this for the first time like a month ago maybe) but she’s pretty fucking awesome and has some of the coolest aesthetic choices in music videos especially. Timbaland is also great here. A chorus that’s just saying “I’m such a good rapper”??? Babe what? I love this.
Supa dupa good shit
It's not my cup of tea
It makes more than a little sense that Missy's debut is bookended by Busta, that other rapper whose ad-libs don't ornament but substantiate: 'ficky-ficky-ficky-ficky-ficky-ficky-ficky'; 'Iza bah bah zah zay / Iza zah zah zah zay'; 'Bam bam bam bam bili bili bom / Bam bili bili bili bili bili bili bom.' Like B.I.G., Elliott is so rhythmically gifted that one is inclined to pass over her lyricism, a shame since she's invested in rhymed content as well as sound. Like Lauryn, she raps and sings, often saving her best writing for the non-rapping parts: 'You don't wanna date / No ifs ands or waits, it's over babe.' And like none, she essentially invented vibe in the hip-hop context. I have but one doubt w/ this one, notably that it's a bit one-note, but a classic it is.
nonsense
Not really a style of music I get on with. Liked the beat, the rhythm and her voice but all together gets 3 stars.
Not my cup of tea. Didn’t finish 1/5 - wouldn’t listen again.
eh not really for me
Supa satsfying
Wanted to like it, but it didn’t grab me
She doesn’t hit her straps for an album or so. You can see what she’s doing but I didn’t really like it.
Not as strong as her other album on the list
The album, while good, was slow and kept the same tempo throughout. Would have liked a bit more variety.
3.5-4 stars for me. good hip hop album!!
This album was fine, but I really dug the hits and songs that didn’t have Busta Rhymes shouting nonsense. Tbh, the previous album by Leonard Cohen was somehow exactly what I needed this weekend.
An exciting trip back to the late 90s! Seeing the “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)” video on MTV for the first time was mesmerizing. So much so that I even quote the song in one of my own! I remember having a crush on Missy back in High School and feeling like it was wrong cuz she was a slightly bigger woman, but this album brought that crush back in full force with zero apprehension. Catchy, era defining, yet timeless. In only one more year, good music would be on the threat of extinction with the release of KISS’s 1998 apocalyptic abomination “Psycho Circus”, but luckily we received this gem before having to rebuild from that tragedy. It became our soundtrack for a better tomorrow. A future of blunts, big booties, and bitchin’ cars. A future Missy Elliot made us realize IS possible… if we believe.
You gotta put some respect on Missy. Ask anyone to rattle off as many female rappers from the 90s as they can -- who are they going to come up with? Lauryn Hill, Missy Elliott...and the list ends? Brutal. She broke a lot of ground with this album, against a lot of odds. All of that being said, I gotta be honest -- this is not the best hip-hop I've ever listened to. I think she really came in to her own a bit later in her career, and while this was a pivotal record, I don't necessarily think it's extraordinary. Sorry Ms. Misdemeanor. Fave songs: - Hit 'Em wit da Hee - The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly) (shoutout Ann Peebles!) - Beep Me 911 - Pass da Blunt - Friendly Skies - Izzy Izzy Ahh - Gettaway
Great Songs: Good Songs: Hit 'Em wit da Hee, The Rain, Beep Me 911, Bite Our Style, Best Friends, Gettaway, Busta's Outro, Missy's Finale Mid Songs: Busta's Intro, Sock It 2 Me, They Don't Wanna Fuck wit Me, Pass da Blunt, Friendly Skies, Don't Be Comin' (In My Face), Izzy, Izzy Ahh, Why You Hurt Me?, I'm Talking Bad Songs:
#729. Keeping with tradition here with an album from an artist we know that has none of the songs we've ever heard. 3/5: fine
Should be 0 stars but that’s not an option
No standouts, not for me
good album
Some good R&B/Hip Hop. Not mormally my thing, but it was catchy and fun.
I’m a little mixed on this album. On one hand, Missy Elliott has always kind of left a bad taste in my mouth, because her style just never really clicked with me. But I’ll give her credit where it’s due, the production on this is pretty solid and definitely helped balance things out. Timbaland’s beats carried a lot of the weight for me and made the album a more enjoyable listen overall, and that says a lot, considering Timbaland is also someone who usually brings a bad taste to my mouth.
She shouts out Timbaland a few too many times, but in her defense, not many debut albums are going to kick things off with a run of singles as viciously smooth as “Hit Em”, “Sock It”, and “The Rain.” Throughout the album, ME marries radio-ready R&B hooks with fluid braggadocio about as well as any 90s album could. Peaks: Izzy Izzy Ahh, The Rain, I’m Talkin Pits: the number of times I’m reminded who the producer is
Boring! Why do these hip-hop albums have to be so loooong?!
Good vibes and fun beats, but didn't hit quite as hard as Missy's subsequent work
Ok. We get it.
Yes, this is exactly the kind of music I'm totally sick of after the first few notes and Busta's rhymes. I listened to it up until 14 and kept thinking, what a load of boring crap. Okay, guys, if it makes you happy, it doesn't make me happy.
Some cool stuff but not too convinced