Click to listen to Timbaland and Missy Elliott's "Take Ur Clothes Off"

How have we made it through so many years without a new Missy and Timbaland song? The first giveaway in the Timbaland Thursdays series (the producer's version of G.O.O.D. Fridays) is also the pair's first track together since 2008's "Shake Your Pom Pom." "Take Ur Clothes Off" sounds like classic Missy-Timbo: All buzzy propulsion (powered by heavy low-end and burbling percussion), bawdy exhortations ("take your clothes off!), and memorable boasts. "I dance like a stripper/Been hot since Billy Dee was drinkin' malt liquor," Missy chirps. Welcome back, guys.

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“1999”

“I don’t consider myself a great poet,” Prince told Rolling Stone. “I just know I’m here to say what’s on my mind.” In the case of the apocalyptic party anthem “1999,” he was worried about then-president Ronald Reagan’s foreign policies. The song’s melody is based on a riff borrowed from the Mamas and Papas’ “Monday, Monday,” and Prince originally envisioned the first verse with three-part harmony but later split the vocals between himself and members of the Revolution. Because Warner Bros., with whom Prince was locked in a contractual battle, owned the original’s masters, Prince rerecorded the song and appropriately released that version in 1999.