The Super Bowl Half Time Show May Have Sparked Missy Elliott's Comeback

Article by: Christine O'Connor

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Sunday night, in the middle of Katy Perry's flashy Super Bowl Halftime Show featuring dancing beach balls and sharks, rapper Missy Elliott and her dancers dropped in. They stole the show with a three-song medley of "Get Ur Freak On," "Work It" and "Lose Control." Those songs are, respectively, 14, 13 and 10 years old, so any teenagers watching might be forgiven for assuming Elliott was a brand new act that Perry was introducing to the world.

Still, it's been 10 years since we've been blessed with a full-length project from the Virginia native who blended R&B and hip-hop into a futuristic funk that still sounds a bit out of arm's reach of today's musicians. 

However, Missy is one of the most revered rappers and producers of her generation. She helped pave the way for female MCs. But she has been quiet in recent years. She reportedly has Graves' Disease, which is a disease of the thyroid and has very different symptoms depending on the person who has it. So it makes sense that she has been on hiatus. 

According to Forbes, her collection saw a 676% bump overall on Spotify. As if an almost 700% increase wasn’t amazing enough, the growth Spotify saw on each of the three songs she performed was astronomical. “Lose Control” was the biggest winner here, with streams increasing by just under 1,400%. After that, “Get Ur Freak On” was up 922%, and “Work It” went up almost 900%.

Those same folks apparently rushed to iTunes to download Elliott's music. Eight of her songs cracked the iTunes top 200 chart, including 2002's "Work It," 2001's "Get Ur Freak On" and 2005's "Lose Control." It really shows that Missy's music is timeless when it resonates with people over a decade later. 

I think we are all ready for a comeback from Misdemeanor!