“She launches into Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster’s ‘Secret Love.’ Slicing through an ocean of adolescent soup, Missy unleashes 18 years of loneliness and longing with a violently vibrating belt that belies her carefully cultivated wallflower persona. Missy doesn’t just sing the song, she lives it; and Alvin finds in her rendition such tender but unapologetic force, you come to understand just how someone who seemed a perpetual girl is truly a woman after all. And when she elucidates her crush further, to the strains of The Bobbettes’ ‘Mr. Lee,’ it’s with more free-spirited, confident fizz than a street full of soda fountains.”