It’s hard to believe, but Missy Elliott has never gone on a headlining solo tour. The last time she regularly hit the road, it was alongside Beyoncé, who was promoting her debut solo album “Dangerously in Love,” as well as Alicia Keys and Tamia on the Verizon Ladies First Tour in 2004.
“I felt like it was time,” Elliott tells PvNew of her upcoming Out of This World — The Missy Elliott Experience, kicking off on July 4 in Vancouver. “It’s just a good time. Especially for my era of fans out there to just see me do my own headline tour, they never got a chance to see that. And a new generation, too.”
The iconic multihyphenate hasn’t put out a solo album since 2005’s “The Cookbook,” but Elliott’s influence has loomed large over pop music in the decades since. Everywhere you look, there are hints of Elliott’s singular, reality-bending strain of art and music permeating through contemporary culture. Nevermind that her output has been somewhat sporadic — a guest feature here, a showstopping performance at the MTV Video Music Awards there — Elliott has continued to warp the minds of fans who have been locked in since 1997’s “Supa Dupa Fly,” plus the throngs of young fans discovering her music for the first time on social media.
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