Seizing a Super Bowl moment, Missy Elliott announces that shes working on new music with Timbaland

Its been more than a week since Missy Elliott became the breakout star of the Super Bowl, her old hits burning up the Spotify and iTunes charts, and shes still riding a wave of reignited stardom. After the performance, she said, she was getting offers to tour. Dont get your hopes up just yet she didnt actually confirm that shes going, but it appears new workis on the horizon.

On Tuesday, Elliott posted a picture of herself in a recording studio with Timbaland on Twitter.Timbalands the chief songwriter and producer for the FOX series Empire. Its possible that Elliott could have been recording a song for the show she missed the Grammys to work with Tim in the studio.

Katy Perry gave a colorful performance on the big stage during the Super Bowl halftime show. Rock star Lenny Kravitz and rapper Missy Elliott also performed. (AP)

Could something more be afoot? In a recent interview with Sirius XMs Sway in the Morning, Elliott was pretty cagey.

I dont want to say too much cause in this day and time, you say too much, boy, you say something, they will come back two weeks later like, Uhhh, where your album at? Elliott said. Okay, fine. But its worth noting that Timbaland and ASAP Ferg both posted new pictures on Instagram early Thursday morningwith Elliott in the studio.

In the late 90s, wewere obsessed with futurism just look at the videos for No Scrubs, 808, or Missys own song, The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly). Everything was forward-looking, but its rare to find work that can realistically make the leap to 2015 and still hang. Missys Super Bowl performance resurfaced that work, and evidenced just how forward-thinking she and Tim were. Work It and Get Ur Freak On still sound distinctive and modern. Years before natural hair took off as a major trend, Elliott had hairdressers sporting enormous fros in the background of the video for Work It, a song about female sex positivity in which Elliott is unambiguously pro-sex worker. Girls, girls, get that cash, if its nine-to-five or shaking your a, she rapped. Aint no shame, ladies do yo thang. Just make sure you ahead of the game.

Aside from her rapping and producing, Missy Elliotts calling cards were her customized track suits and her high-energy, complicateddance routines, which is why it might surprise you to see her rocking a goldlam Elizabethan gown, complete with high collar, in the video for Beep Me 911. Lady Gaga wore something similar crafted from red PVC to meet the queen of England both mixed elements of Elizabethan and Victorian-era costuming. Get a good look at Elliotts pink surrounds and the Barbie-like backup dancers. Who else spies a heavy visual influence on early Nicki Minaj?

And has anyone noticed the shocking similarity between the logo on the space suit Elliott rocks in Sock It 2 Me and the Gmail icon? Sock It 2 Me came out in 1997. Gmail lauched in 2004.

Hopefully her performance at the Super Bowl with Katy Perry is a signal that shes been able to overcome or at least manage her symptoms resulting fromGraves disease, anautoimmune disorder that affects the thyroid gland. Elliott was diagnosed with the disorder in 2008, and revealed that she experienced hair loss and mood swings as a result. At one point, she said in the Guardian, I couldnt write because my nervous system was so bad.

Its been 10 years since Elliott dropped her last studio album, The Cookbook.

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Seizing a Super Bowl moment, Missy Elliott announces that shes working on new music with Timbaland