{"id":99,"date":"2005-07-07T10:20:12","date_gmt":"2005-07-07T17:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/?p=99"},"modified":"2005-07-09T00:13:14","modified_gmt":"2005-07-09T07:13:14","slug":"cookin-with-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2005\/cookin-with-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Cookin’ With M.E."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TheI consider to be myself a pretty big Missy Elliott fan. I’ve purchased …So Addictive<\/i><\/a>, Under Construction<\/i><\/a>, and This Is Not a Test<\/i><\/a> the days they were released. For Elliott’s latest, The Cookbook<\/i><\/a>, the situation was the same. I got it on Tuesday. I now feel ready to comment on it.<\/p>\n

First, I think Elliott’s best album is …So Addictive<\/i>, followed by Supa Dupa Fly<\/i>. I know that Under Construction<\/i> was her best selling, and I did love a bunch of the songs, but it didn’t feel as surreal — it was more “old skool” and whatnot. Likewise, This Is Not a Test<\/i> was rather disappointing. Of all the songs on it, I really only love “Pass That Dutch.” The songs “Pump It Up” and “Wake Up” are also good, but nothing spectacular. (Side note: from Under Construction<\/i> I love “Gossip Folks,” “Work It,” “Play That Beat,” and “Back in the Day.”)<\/p>\n

Second, I wrote a major paper (around 20 pages long, I think) about Missy Elliott for my Historical Perspectives in Writing and Rhetoric class. I used Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s theory of Signifyin(g)<\/a> and H\u00c3\u00a9l\u00c3\u00a8ne Cixous’s ideas of women’s writing and writing the body to argue that Elliott’s music is a hybrid of the two ideas and represents a unique rhetoric that, I would imagine, is used by female rappers.<\/p>\n

So yah, I’m a big fan and a nerd.<\/p>\n

As for my thoughts about The Cookbook<\/i>, two-days of listening to it still leaves me a little unsure. I have realized that I really don’t like Missy’s slower ballad-like or R&B-like songs. I much prefer her faster songs with rapping in them.<\/p>\n

Instead of a proper review at this time, I feel safe to say that my favorite songs so far are: “Click Clack” (which features this rhyme: “click clack caught it back semi-automatic track drink a lot of Semalac shorty better fall back” — which I swear<\/strong> I’ve heard elsewhere but haven’t been able to track down), “Cant Stop,” “We Run This,” “Lose Control,” and “Irresistible Delicious.”<\/p>\n

It looks like I like more songs from this album than her last two, so that is progress.<\/p>\n

Overall, though, I miss the sci-fi elements that Elliott used to incorporate. And by “sci-fi,” I mean that very loosely and maybe more of a “surrealism” than anything else.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, it’s Missy, and I love her and think she’s a brilliant musician, so in the end I would for sure recommend The Cookbook<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I consider to be myself a pretty big Missy Elliott fan. I’ve purchased …So Addictive, Under Construction, and This Is Not a Test the days they were released. For Elliott’s latest, The Cookbook, the situation was the same. I got it on Tuesday. I now feel ready to comment on it. First, I think Elliott’s … Continue reading Cookin’ With M.E.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}