Last night at midnight, Missy Elliott debuted an EP called Iconology, complete with a gorgeous new music video for "Throw It Back."
You just have to watch it, but it's so visually stunning, not to mention catchy as hell.
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I have missed Missy Elliott so much. She's responsible for at least one of my top five favorite songs of all time, and her unmatchable energy feels thoroughly unique. Last night, she announced she'd be dropping a five-track album (her first in 14 years) called Iconology at midnight, saying of the project, "Let’s #ThrowItBack to a time when music just felt good and made us want to dance!" No surprise, Iconology has already hit the top five on U.S. iTunes. One of those songs, "Throw It Back," came with its own music video. And it's a complete return to form for the icon.

Allow me to summarize. The singer shows a sly self-awareness that I love—her video starts with a tween not knowing who "Missy Elliott" is—and the video is, no surprise, about her throwing it back to her iconic style with a glorious new spin. "Made songs for Tweet before y'all could even Tweet" is an actual lyric for the song that made me legitimately laugh out loud.

She has her dancers in every color of the rainbow (she's in matching lipstick, natch). The exuberant, powerful dance moves are very reminiscent of "Get Ur Freak On," which I was obsessed with. At one point, they jump rope on her braids. At one point they all dance in space suits on the moon.