Missy Elliott has publicly called upon record label executives to make her and Christina Aguilera’s cover of the classic track “Car Wash” available on major streaming platforms, according to music-news.com.
The hip-hop icon, 54, and the pop superstar, 44, recorded their distinctive take on the 1976 Rose Royce hit for the 2004 animated film, Shark Tale. Despite the star power, the song has, for reasons unknown, never been uploaded to services such as Spotify and Apple Music.
After receiving an avalanche of messages from disappointed fans, the “Lose Control” hitmaker took to X to directly address Universal Music Group and Geffen Records.
She penned: “@UMG .@GeffenRecords, the fans tagged me wanting to know why the song Car Wash on #Sharktale soundtrack not on some streaming sites… Can you please help out because many of them have been asking as you can see and miss it.”
The streaming push comes as Elliott continues to ride a wave of recognition and creative energy. In 2023, she made history as the first female rapper to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, an honour she admitted had always “seemed so far out of reach.”
More recently, the legend has been back in the studio, promising something fresh for her devoted fanbase.
“I have something in the works,” she told the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast. “It’s just different. It’s me being experimental again… I got some stuff coming. Some fire.”
Elliott’s last full-length album was 2005’s The Cookbook, followed by the EP Iconology in 2019.
In a truly ‘out of this world’ event last year, Missy Elliott’s debut solo single, ‘The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly),’ was famously transmitted into outer space. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory used their Deep Space Network to beam the song a staggering 158 million miles from Earth to the planet Venus.
The ‘Get Ur Freak On’ rapper celebrated the cosmic achievement on X: “YOOO this is crazy! We just went #OutOfThisWorld with NASA and sent the FIRST hip hop song into space through the Deep Space Network. My song ‘The Rain’ has officially been transmitted all the way to Venus…”
