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Listeners shouldn't blame Missy Elliott for slipping into a holding pattern for her fifth album, This Is Not a Test! Early on she arrived at a distinctive sound -- the confident, clubbed-up jam with little melodic power but endless reserves of kinetic energy, courtesy of Timbaland's rubbery productions -- and she refined it well with hits like 2001's "Get Ur Freak On" and the following year's "Work It" and "Gossip Folks." Still, although she remains by far the most interesting figure in hip-hop, This Is Not a Test! has more filler than Elliott's allowed on a record since 1999's Da Real World. (Little surprise considering it appeared just over a year after 2002's Under Construction.) Granted, listeners and club fans looking for hit material will certainly find plenty on display. While the single "Pass That Dutch" is little more than a warmed-up "Work It" rewrite (albeit one studded with auditory change-ups from alarm clocks to car alarms to audience noise to the whinnying of a horse), she compensates nicely with the blazing electro shock of "I'm Really Hot" and the down-and-dirty moaning of her Nelly duet, "Pump It Up." And Timbaland's productions are still above and beyond any others on earth, with a dizzying roster of next-generation beats -- conceived in ring modulators, echo chambers, torpedo tubes, rusty pipes; anywhere except a standard drumkit -- matched to dark, technoid effects capable of raising the eyebrows of even the most experimental laptop programmers. However, most of the guest features fall flat: Fabolous wastes an excellent opportunity to match wits with Missy, giving her the shy-guy routine on "Is This Our Last Time," while Jay-Z is uninvolved on his feature, "Wake Up." Elephant Man's bounce track, "Keep It Movin," works well, but the R. Kelly duet, "Dats What I'm Talkin About," has Elliott playing -- perhaps too agreeably -- the inexperienced young girl to Kelly's mature lover. There's no need to blame Missy for not making a record that's tight all the way through, especially since few artists in the R&B world are held to such scrutiny. Still, an album like This Is Not a Test! is an effective argument for song-by-song downloads.
© John Bush /TiVo
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Jimmy Douglass, MixingEngineer - Marcella Araica, Assistant Recording Engineer - Craig Brockman, Keyboards - Missy Elliott, Producer, Lead Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Timbaland, Producer, Writer - Demolition Man, Assistant Recording Engineer - NILE RODGERS, Writer - BERNARD EDWARDS, Writer - Herb Powers, MasteringEngineer - Chris Puram, Audio Recording Engineer - Mary J. Blige, FeaturedArtist - Ian Blanch, Audio Recording Engineer - Carlos Bedoya, Audio Recording Engineer - Demacio Castellon, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Senator Jimmy D., Audio Recording Engineer
© 2003 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. ℗ 2003 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
Jimmy Douglass, MixingEngineer - Marcella Araica, Assistant Mixing Engineer, Assistant Recording Engineer - JERRY GOLDSTEIN, Writer - Harold Brown, Writer - Howard Scott, Writer - Kelvin Mercer, Writer - Missy Elliott, Producer, Lead Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Vadim Chislov, AssistantEngineer - Timbaland, Writer, ExecutiveProducer - Demolition Man, Assistant Recording Engineer - B.B. Dickerson, Writer - Lonnie Jordan, Writer - Charles Miller, Writer - Scott Kieklak, MixingEngineer - Herb Powers, MasteringEngineer - Paul Huston, Writer - Demacio Castellon, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Vincent Mason, Writer - Papa Dee Allen, Writer - Lee Levitin, Writer - Senator Jimmy D., Audio Recording Engineer - Dave Jolicoeur, Writer
© 2003 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. ℗ 2003 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
Jimmy Douglass, MixingEngineer - Marcella Araica, Assistant Recording Engineer - Missy Elliott, Producer, Lead Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Timbaland, Producer, Writer - Demolition Man, Assistant Recording Engineer - Jay-Z, Writer, FeaturedArtist - Herb Powers, MasteringEngineer - Carlos Bedoya, Audio Recording Engineer - Demacio Castellon, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Senator Jimmy D., Audio Recording Engineer
© 2003 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. ℗ 2003 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
Jimmy Douglass, MixingEngineer - Marcella Araica, AssistantEngineer - Missy Elliott, Lead Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Elephant Man, Writer, FeaturedArtist - Timbaland, Producer, Writer - Demolition Man, Assistant Recording Engineer - Herb Powers, MasteringEngineer - Lindsey Fields, Backing Vocals - Carlos Bedoya, Audio Recording Engineer - Demacio Castellon, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Senator Jimmy D., RecordingEngineer
© 2003 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. ℗ 2003 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
Missy Elliott, Lead Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - K-Mack, Writer - Leon Sylvers, Writer - Vadim Chislov, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Demolition Man, AssistantEngineer - Marcella "Ms Lago" Araica, Assistant Mixing Engineer, AssistantEngineer - Fabolous, Writer, FeaturedArtist - Scott Kieklak, MixingEngineer - Herb Powers, MasteringEngineer - Craig X. Brockman, Keyboards - Soul Diggaz, Producer - Carlos Bedoya, Audio Recording Engineer - Bless, Writer - Demacio Castellon, Assistant Mixing Engineer - William Shelby, Writer
© 2003 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. ℗ 2003 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
Jimmy Douglass, MixingEngineer - Marcella Araica, Assistant Mixing Engineer, Assistant Recording Engineer - Craig Brockman, Producer, Writer - Missy Elliott, Lead Vocals, Writer, MainArtist, ExecutiveProducer - Vadim Chislov, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Timbaland, Writer, ExecutiveProducer - Demolition Man, Assistant Recording Engineer - Scott Kieklak, MixingEngineer - Herb Powers, MasteringEngineer - Carlos Bedoya, Audio Recording Engineer - Bless, Scratch - Demacio Castellon, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Senator Jimmy D., RecordingEngineer
© 2003 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. ℗ 2003 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
Marcella Araica, Assistant Mixing Engineer, Assistant Recording Engineer - Nisan Stewart, Producer, Writer - Craig Brockman, Producer - Missy Elliott, Lead Vocals, Writer, MainArtist, ExecutiveProducer - Vadim Chislov, Assistant Mixing Engineer - R. Kelly, Writer, FeaturedArtist - Scott Kieklak, MixingEngineer - Carlos Bedoya, Audio Recording Engineer - Demacio Castellon, Assistant Mixing Engineer
© 2003 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. ℗ 2003 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
Jimmy Douglass, MixingEngineer - Marcella Araica, Assistant Recording Engineer - Alvin Fields, Writer - Missy Elliott, Producer, Lead Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Timbaland, Writer, ExecutiveProducer - Demolition Man, Assistant Recording Engineer - Monica, FeaturedArtist - Beenie Man, Writer, FeaturedArtist - Herb Powers, MasteringEngineer - Hurby Azor, Writer - Carlos Bedoya, Audio Recording Engineer - Demacio Castellon, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Michael Zager, Writer - Senator Jimmy D., Audio Recording Engineer
© 2003 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. ℗ 2003 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
Jimmy Douglass, MixingEngineer - Marcella Araica, Assistant Mixing Engineer, Assistant Recording Engineer - Craig Brockman, Producer, Writer - Missy Elliott, Producer, Lead Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Vadim Chislov, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Timbaland, Producer, Writer - Demolition Man, Assistant Recording Engineer - Scott Kieklak, MixingEngineer - Herb Powers, MasteringEngineer - Carlos Bedoya, Audio Recording Engineer - Demacio Castellon, Assistant Mixing Engineer
© 2003 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. ℗ 2003 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
Kirk Robinson, Writer - MC Lyte, Writer, Voice Samples - Missy Elliott, Producer, Lead Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Timbaland, Producer, Vocals - Demolition Man, Assistant Recording Engineer - Jimmy D, MixingEngineer - Rod Temperton, Writer - Herb Powers, MasteringEngineer - Carlos Bedoya, Audio Recording Engineer - Bless, Scratch - Demacio Castellon, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Senator Jimmy D., Audio Recording Engineer
© 2003 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. ℗ 2003 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
Jimmy Douglass, MixingEngineer - Missy Elliott, Producer, Lead Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Timbaland, Producer, Writer - Demolition Man, AssistantEngineer - Marcella "Ms Lago" Araica, AssistantEngineer - Senator Jimmy Douglass, Audio Recording Engineer - Nelly, Writer, FeaturedArtist - Herb Powers, MasteringEngineer
© 2003 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. ℗ 2003 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
Jimmy Douglass, MixingEngineer - Marcella Araica, AssistantEngineer - Craig Brockman, Producer - Missy Elliott, Lead Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Missy Elliot, Writer - Gavin Christopher, Writer - Rufus & Chaka Khan, Voice Samples - TONY MAIDEN, Writer - Herb Powers, MasteringEngineer - Lindsey Fields, Backing Vocals - Carlos Bedoya, Audio Recording Engineer - Demacio Castellon, Assistant Mixing Engineer
© 2003 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. ℗ 2003 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
Jimmy Douglass, MixingEngineer - Marcella Araica, Assistant Recording Engineer - Missy Elliott, Producer, Lead Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Timbaland, Producer, Writer - Demolition Man, Assistant Recording Engineer - Herb Powers, MasteringEngineer - Carlos Bedoya, Audio Recording Engineer - Demacio Castellon, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Senator Jimmy D., RecordingEngineer
© 2003 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. ℗ 2003 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
Jimmy Douglass, MixingEngineer - Marcella Araica, Assistant Recording Engineer - Missy Elliott, Producer, Lead Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Timbaland, Producer, Writer - Demolition Man, Assistant Recording Engineer - Carlos Bedoya, Audio Recording Engineer - Demacio Castellon, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Senator Jimmy D., Audio Recording Engineer
© 2003 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. ℗ 2003 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
Marcella Araica, Assistant Mixing Engineer, Assistant Recording Engineer - Nisan Stewart, Producer - Craig Brockman, Producer, Writer - Missy Elliott, Lead Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Vadim Chislov, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Timbaland, Writer - The Clark Sisters, FeaturedArtist - Scott Kieklak, MixingEngineer - Carlos Bedoya, Audio Recording Engineer - Demacio Castellon, Assistant Mixing Engineer
© 2003 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. ℗ 2003 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
Jimmy Douglass, MixingEngineer - Marcella Araica, Assistant Recording Engineer - Craig Brockman, Keyboards - Missy Elliott, Lead Vocals, Writer, MainArtist, ExecutiveProducer - Timbaland, Writer, ExecutiveProducer - Demolition Man, Assistant Recording Engineer - Jay Brown, A&R Manager, ExecutiveProducer - Herb Powers, MasteringEngineer - Chris Puram, Audio Recording Engineer - Mary J. Blige, FeaturedArtist - Ian Blanch, Audio Recording Engineer - Carlos Bedoya, Audio Recording Engineer - Demacio Castellon, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Senator Jimmy D., RecordingEngineer
© 2003 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. ℗ 2003 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
Album review
Listeners shouldn't blame Missy Elliott for slipping into a holding pattern for her fifth album, This Is Not a Test! Early on she arrived at a distinctive sound -- the confident, clubbed-up jam with little melodic power but endless reserves of kinetic energy, courtesy of Timbaland's rubbery productions -- and she refined it well with hits like 2001's "Get Ur Freak On" and the following year's "Work It" and "Gossip Folks." Still, although she remains by far the most interesting figure in hip-hop, This Is Not a Test! has more filler than Elliott's allowed on a record since 1999's Da Real World. (Little surprise considering it appeared just over a year after 2002's Under Construction.) Granted, listeners and club fans looking for hit material will certainly find plenty on display. While the single "Pass That Dutch" is little more than a warmed-up "Work It" rewrite (albeit one studded with auditory change-ups from alarm clocks to car alarms to audience noise to the whinnying of a horse), she compensates nicely with the blazing electro shock of "I'm Really Hot" and the down-and-dirty moaning of her Nelly duet, "Pump It Up." And Timbaland's productions are still above and beyond any others on earth, with a dizzying roster of next-generation beats -- conceived in ring modulators, echo chambers, torpedo tubes, rusty pipes; anywhere except a standard drumkit -- matched to dark, technoid effects capable of raising the eyebrows of even the most experimental laptop programmers. However, most of the guest features fall flat: Fabolous wastes an excellent opportunity to match wits with Missy, giving her the shy-guy routine on "Is This Our Last Time," while Jay-Z is uninvolved on his feature, "Wake Up." Elephant Man's bounce track, "Keep It Movin," works well, but the R. Kelly duet, "Dats What I'm Talkin About," has Elliott playing -- perhaps too agreeably -- the inexperienced young girl to Kelly's mature lover. There's no need to blame Missy for not making a record that's tight all the way through, especially since few artists in the R&B world are held to such scrutiny. Still, an album like This Is Not a Test! is an effective argument for song-by-song downloads.
© John Bush /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 16 track(s)
- Total length: 00:56:05
- Main artists: Missy Elliott
- Label: EastWest
- Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap
© 2003 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. ℗ 2003 Elektra Entertainment Group Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
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