Missy Elliot Now Selling Crisps For A Living

Missy Elliot is known for her groundbreaking, cutting-edge musical vision, so anything she chooses to advertise will have to be similarly groundbreaking and cutting-edge - like, um, Doritos.

OK, maybe we're being unfair here - by appearing as the new face of Doritos, Missy Elliot isn't just selling out her creative ideals in return for a giant cheque and a few free snacks, because Missy Elliott isn't just the new face of Doritos. In fact, Missy Elliot is the new face of Doritos Collisions - a groundbreaking variation on old fashioned Doritos where each bag is filled with two different flavours of crisps all mixed up. You know what that means, don't you? It means Missy Elliott is the new face of pissing about with crisps the same way you did when you were three years old. She deserves that Doritos money, you know.

Now that Kate Moss has her Topshop range and Elton John his a smelly candle range and Sylvester Stallone sells puddings and you can't even open your eyes for a billionth of a second without them being intruded upon by George Clooney flogging whatever shit happens to be nearest to him at any given moment in time, we've become convinced that in two years literally everything you buy will be endorsed by a celebrity, from Tom Cruise homoeopathic postpartum depression remedies to rolls of economy binbags as used by that bloke with the broken ankle from Casualty in 1998 once.

But until that golden day arrives, you're going to have to make do with Missy Elliot flogging Doritos to you instead. For reasons that literally couldn't be any further beyond us, Missy Elliott has gone where only Gary Lineker has gone before and has started to advertise crisps, becoming the star of a whole new range of Doritos adverts. Perhaps Missy Elliot needed to fund her biopic or perhaps she just really likes Doritos, but now Missy can be seen in TV adverts for Doritos Collisions - like normal Doritos, but with two flavours banging about in the same bag. IGN reports:

In the commercial Elliott, who is currently working on a new album, is seen working on a new mix with a sound engineer in a recording studio. Momentarily stuck on the beat, she munches on new Doritos Collisions chips and, inspired by their intense flavor combination unexpectedly decides to spin in a country beat. "The idea of Doritos Collisions mixing those great flavors is an original idea - just how I like my music," said Elliott. "I'm all about new experiences and new sounds."   

There you go; for those of you who thought that Missy Elliot's powerfully futuristic, industry-altering production technique was indescribable, now you have have your answer - it's like crisps.

Although we're being slightly hard on Missy Elliot here - there's every chance that Doritos Collisions are the most delicious snack ever made and Missy Elliot's love for them is so great that the commercials rank as some of her most intensely sincere work - Missy Elliott still needs to know that there are repercussions to becoming the face of a brand like Doritos. Look at the lawsuit that Charlize Theron got for wearing the wrong kind of watch when she was the face of Raymond Weil - we're just saying that Missy Elliot had better get used to Doritos Collisions, because that's all she'll be able to eat until her contract expires.

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Missy Elliot Digs Doritos - IGN