Missy Elliott’s “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)” took nearly 14 minutes to get transmitted to space in a first for hip-hop.
How long does it take to reach Venus? For Missy Elliott’s “The Rain ,” it took nearly 14 minutes to travel all the way to the planet of love, a distance of about 158 million miles,
did not say why it chose to transmit a song into space again — just the second time after The Beatles’ “Across the Universe” was sent to the North Star, Polaris, in 2008. Culturally, though, that the song was sent at all may signal Elliott’s position as one of Earth’s singular artists.
pitched ideas to Elliott about collaborating with the agency, before settling on this effort. “Missy has a track record of infusing space-centric storytelling and futuristic visuals in her music videos so the opportunity to collaborate on something out of this world is truly fitting,” said Brittany Brown, a director in
has sent music to space in other ways. Most notably, aboard Voyager 1 and 2 in 1977,
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