This Is Not a Test!

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艺人: Missy Elliott
语种: 英语
厂牌: Elektra Records
发行时间: 2003年11月25日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

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by John Bush

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.

This Is Not a Test!

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