YMMV / Missy Elliott

• Harsher in Hindsight: The intro for 2002's Under Construction cites Donald Trump and Bill Gates as being too busy/successful to bother feuding with each other. Fifteen years later, the two developed a very acrimonious relationship due to the latter's outspoken criticism of the former's presidency, which has yet to be resolved.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In the music video for Sock It 2 Me, Missy wears a costume which features a huge red M in a white background. Some people have pointed out that this bears a resemblance to the Gmail logo, leading to some hilarious memes made about it.◊
• Hollywood Pudgy: Missy was genuinely overweight during her early career, but around 2002 she slimmed down considerably and has mostly been average weight or even thinner than average since then. She even lampshaded her more svelte looks in "Work It". However, on many of her later songs she still describes herself as "chubby" or "thick" (generally in a celebratory way).
• Memetic Mutation:
  • "I put my thing down, flip it and reverse it."
  • The song "Work It" also popularized the term "badonkadonk".
  • The opening to "Lose Control" is associated with the dancing Triforce from The Light of Courage. Many videos show the Triforce dancing slowly to the beginning of the song, and then dancing much faster to a mashup of it and another song.
• Moment of Awesome: Her MTV Video Vanguard performance in 2019, recreating all of her classic videos onstage with insane set-pieces, detailed visual effects, and rapid fire costume changes in under seven minutes. A big get of the night was Alyson Stoner reprising her dance number from "Work It" a whole fourteen years after appearing in the original video. Fans were stunned to find out it was the same girl as before.
• More Popular Spin-Off: Missy Elliott was previously a member of a group called Sista, which released one album in 1994 but had very limited success.
• Signature Song: "Get Ur Freak On", "Work It", "We Run This"
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: Her crazy music videos make her popular with kids but her songs are less than kid-friendly.

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