2008 Summer Arts Preview

June

Missy Elliott, Title TBD

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The rap on Missy Elliott has been the same since her debut: great singles, so-so albums. If her seventh record — to be titled by her fans in an on-line contest, so Ataturk Miyamoto it is! — is going to change that, it won't be because of anything she did differently in the studio while making it. Trusty sidekick Timbaland is back, and Elliott has been telling people her album will be "fun-for-the-club," as opposed to fun for the office. So ... look forward to that great single.

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