Hip-Hop / Electro / Miami Bass · 2005
Turn any photo into a Lose Control AI dance video. Our AI maps the body-isolation, formation-driven choreography from Missy Elliott's 2005 lead single — the Grammy-winning Dave Meyers music video that still defines what a hip-hop dance video can look like.
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Choreographer: Nadine "Hi-Hat" Ruffin
Lose Control dropped May 23, 2005 as the lead single from Missy Elliott's sixth album The Cookbook on Goldmind/Atlantic. It debuted at #86 on the Billboard Hot 100 (May 21, 2005), climbed for four months, and peaked at #3 on September 17, 2005 — 28 total weeks on the Hot 100 and 12 weeks inside the top 10. It also hit #3 on Hot Rap Songs and Pop 100 (peaked at #2), and topped MTV2 and BET as the most-played video of 2005. The RIAA certified it 3× Platinum in 2023. The Dave Meyers-directed music video (co-directed by Missy) won the 2006 Grammy for Best Short Form Music Video at the 48th ceremony — beating Gorillaz's "Feel Good Inc." — and won Best Dance Video and Best Hip-Hop Video at the 2005 VMAs.
Cultural Note
The track is built on two 1983 samples: Cybotron's "Clear" — the Detroit electro single by Juan Atkins and Richard Davis that LA Weekly later named one of the most influential dance songs ever made — and Hot Streak's "Body Work," which supplied the line "Music make you lose control" that became the song's hook. Juan Atkins told Hammarica he wasn't involved in the production but the label cleared the sample through Fantasy Records; he learned about it on the radio and was happy to get a writers' credit on a number-one record. The Dave Meyers video — choreographed by Nadine "Hi-Hat" Ruffin (Missy's longtime collaborator on "Work It" and "Get Ur Freak On") — was nominated for six VMAs, including Best Direction and Best Choreography, and won two; Hi-Hat's choreography on this video remains a reference point for ensemble hip-hop choreography to this day. The video extends past the song itself into a wire-work "On & On" interlude featuring Tommy Lee — most TV airings cut that section.
The video's signature look is tight unison ensemble work (rows of dancers, single lines, ground-up formations) — group photos with friends standing close at similar heights translate this register more cleanly than solo poses
Hi-Hat's choreography leans on sharp body isolations and shoulder/chest pops on the offbeat — relaxed posture with arms slightly away from the body gives the AI clearer pivot points for those isolations than locked, arms-at-sides stances
The opening scene is full-body silhouettes in a solid black room with the dancers in dark clothing — high-contrast outfits against a plain background match the video's framing and render the silhouette dance more recognizably than busy or low-contrast photos
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