Roommates, again in 2002, Tweet and Missy Elliott gave us a basic bop courtesy of the music “Oops (Oh My)”—and whereas many have lengthy assumed that they know what the music is about, Missy simply confirmed they’re incorrect. In a tweet, Missy Elliott not too long ago shocked R&B followers when she revealed the backstory concerning the music…and it’s positively not what you suppose.
Missy Elliott simply shut down an nearly 20-year-old assumption about one of many largest hits she produced. Responding to a fan who commented that Tweet’s music “Oops (Oh My)” was a bop, Missy went into element about what the music is definitely about—and no, it’s not about self-pleasure.
Missy tweeted this reality about Tweet’s hit music:
“#Funfact this music was by no means bout Masturbation it was at all times about her appreciating her Darkish Pores and skin (Self Love)when she seemed within the mirror it was the listeners that thought it was about intercourse & simply ran with it… Not fascinated by ruining a very good story we simply let the shoppers thoughts create what they wished.”
That technique appeared to work, because the music reached No. 7 on the Billboard Sizzling 100 in 2002, thanks partly to such provocative lyrics as “Mmm, I used to be trying so good, I couldn’t reject myself/ I used to be feeling so good, I needed to contact myself,” which dwell on the monitor alongside different suggestive traces similar to “I used to be eyeing my thighs, butter pecan brown.”
In the meantime, followers uncovered a earlier clip of Tweet backing up Missy’s declare, saying that the monitor was not sexual however about “self-love and appreciation… You understand I used to be actual insecure with myself for some time.”
Having realized the lesson that intercourse sells, nonetheless, Tweet says within the clip that she was additionally comfortable to let anybody interpret it as being about no matter fueled their fantasies, even when it was simply “a intelligent solution to say ‘love your self.’”
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