Missy Elliott and her producer, Timbaland, recorded enough songs to make up Missy’s third album, Miss E…So Addictive. They decided the album could use one more song, so they came up with a little something called “Get Ur Freak On.”
Missy Elliott turns 52 today. Honor the occasion by getting ur freak on with help from today’s playlist.
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Today’s playlist celebrates the August 21 birthdays of Kelis, The Clash’s Joe Strummer, The Prodigy’s Liam Howlett, Kacey Musgraves, System of a Down’s Serj Tankian, Jackie De Shannon, Kenny Rogers, Ernie Maresca, and David Morales; and the August 22 birthdays of Wu-Tang Clan’s GZA, Tori Amos, John Lee Hooker, Tears for Fears’ Roland Orzabal, Craig Finn, Alice in Chains’ Layne Staley, Bangles’ Debbi Peterson, Living Colour’s Vernon Reid, Dale Hawkins, Dua Lipa, The Archies’ Ron Dante, Chuck Brown, and Evelyn Thomas.
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The music of 1999 shows the century coming to a close in grand style, as if to say the next year the party will be over, oops, out of time, so this year we better party. Latinx artists were crossing over to the mainstream pop chart. Cher and Santana, who first charted in the 1960s, scored the biggest hits of their careers. Artists who made their chart debuts include Eminem and Britney Spears. Pure pop exploded, though the charts made room for country, hip hop, electronica, and big beat. As one who values diversity, I loved hearing all these different genres and styles bump up against each other on the radio. Here are 30 prime examples of the music that hit in 1999.
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