Lose Control (Missy Elliott song)

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“Lose Control”
Single by Missy Elliott featuring Ciara and Fatman Scoop from the album The Cookbook
Released	May 27, 2005
Format	Digital download, CD single
Recorded	New York City and Atlanta, Georgia
Genre	Hip hop, Pop Rap, Dance-pop
Length	3:46
Label	Goldmind/Atlantic
Writer(s)	Missy Elliott, Ciara, Fatman Scoop, Richard Davis, Curtis Hudson
Producer	Missy Elliott
Missy Elliott singles chronology
"Where Could He Be?" (2005)	"Lose Control" (2005)	"Teary Eyed" (2005)
Ciara singles chronology
"Oh" (2005)	"Lose Control" (2005)	"Like You" (2005)
Fatman Scoop singles chronology
	"Lose Control" (2005)

"Lose Control" is a 2005 single by Missy Elliott featuring Ciara and Fatman Scoop, released on Goldmind/Atlantic Records. It contains samples from Cybotron's "Clear" and Hot Streak's "Body Work" and at the end of the music video, her own song "On and on". The first single from Elliott's sixth album The Cookbook (2005), "Lose Control" peaked at number-three on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, becoming Elliott's fifth top ten single, Ciara's fourth, and Fatman Scoop's first. "Lose Control" went platinum five times, becoming her biggest single to date (passing the previous single "Work It").

The music video features a cameo by Tommy Lee. The video also features Elliott in a desert, in a solid black room with other dancers, in an old wooden house and in a row of dancers, dancing by a car. The song is a basic anthem of encouragement to be confident instead of being the basic wall flower, (a person who does not like to participate).^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Awards

"Lose Control" won the 2006 Grammy Award for "Best Short Form Music Video". It also won the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards for "Best Hip-Hop Video" and "Best Dance Video".

[edit] Charts