Work It (Missy Elliott song)

Work It (Missy Elliott song)

Single infobox |
Name = Work It
Artist = Missy Elliott


from Album =
Under Construction
Released = September 3, 2002
Format = Digital download
CD single
12" single
Recorded = 2002
Genre = Hip hop
Length = 4:58
Label = Goldmind/Elektra
Writer = Missy Elliott
Tim Mosley
Producer = Timbaland and Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott (co-producer)
Reviews =
*
Last single = "The Knoc"
(2002)
This single = "Work It"
(2002)
Next single = "Gossip Folks"
(2003)
"Work It" is a hip hop song written by American rapper/singer Missy Elliott and her producer Tim "Timbaland" Mosley for Elliott's critically acclaimed fourth studio album "Under Construction" (2002). The song's musical style, and production by Timbaland, were heavily inspired by Old school hip hop from the 1980s, and includes a portion which samples Run-D.M.C.'s "Peter Piper". The beginning of the song samples Rock Master Scott & the Dynamic Three's "Request Line". Released as the album's first single in the fall of 2002, the track reached the number two position on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, becoming Missy Elliott's most successful single to date.

The single spent ten consecutive weeks at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States (about this Elliott confessed: "I just wanted to die those ten weeks, I mean, it wasn't cool"), and reached number one for five weeks on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The song is tied with Foreigner's 1981 hit "Waiting for a Girl Like You" as the longest-running U.S. number-two single that did not reach number one. "Work It"'s music video was directed by Dave Meyers. A remix of this song features 50 Cent. The end of the song also samples "Peter Piper" by Run-DMC.

Lyrics

* A portion of the song's lyrics helped popularize the slang term "badonkadonk" with mainstream audiences:::"...love the way my ass go 'bum-bump-bum-bump-bump"'::"keep your eyes on my 'bum-bump-bum-bump-bump"'::"and think you can handle this 'badonk-a-donk-donk'"
* During the chorus, the line "I put my thing down, flip it, and reverse it" is simply played backwards, a part many mistakenly assumed to be gibberish. In the middle of the song, after the line "Listen up close while I take you backwards", the line "Watch the way Missy like to take it backwards" is also played in reverse. This vocal reversing trend made it to several of her productions during the following years.

The song and video are highly suggestive, a fact instanced during the chorus, in which an elephant's trumpet is repeatedly sounded to mask a sexual reference. At one point during the video, Elliott is shown on a date, promising the man that he "won't find a chick that's even better" and that she can "make [him as] hot as Las Vegas weather", after which he falls to the floor, apparently in a drunken stupor. She seems unaffected.

Music video

*Aaliyah & Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, who at the time had both died recently, are commemorated in the music video with their images airbrushed on a car's hood.
*Actress and dancer Alyson Stoner appears as a background dancer in the video.
*Timbaland, Eve and Tweet make cameos.
*Won MTV Best Video of the Year, 2003

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