What is Nelly Furtado's music like?

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Is she some kind of pop tart or is she something else? What other musicians does she sound like she is influenced by?

Also, is she a different person to this Nelly artist I've heard about?

― DV, Saturday, 1 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Do you reckon she herself is aware that the title of her album is a comics reference?

― DV, Saturday, 1 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

err, the phrase "Whoa, Nelly!" existed long before Jaime Hernandez used it.

― RW, Saturday, 1 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Also, is she a different person to this Nelly artist I've heard about?

Yes she is. Unlike Ms. Furtado, I rather like Nelly...

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 1 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

don't know much about Furtado, but yes different to Nelly. Ride Wit Me is a great single, not convinced by the album, which gets a bit samey. You need Ride Wit Me though, oh yes

― gareth, Saturday, 1 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's good, but I'm with Finney on this: "E.I." is better.

Furtado's music is bollocks as far as I can hear.

― Robin Carmody, Saturday, 1 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Miss Furtado is the ultimate example of a white artist jacking black music and watering it down for white folks.

Basically, she makes R&B records that are not threatening, with production that is not particularly spicy. Think of whatever is playing on your local Urban R&B station, any think of a pale comparison with more emphasis on vocal melodies, and far less verve in the vocal delivery.

It is not really bad, it is just that if I want to hear black music, I want to hear black music. I do not want to hear black music compromised by a white artist with the intention of crossing over and making a musical idiom easily digestible to a suburban middle class audience. It is lukewarm pop-R&B at best.

― Michael Taylor, Saturday, 1 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Nelly's music is poor. That's all you really need to know. And, she's big-headed about it, which makes it even worse.

"...I want to hear black music, I want to hear black music. I do not want to hear black music compromised by a white artist with the intention of crossing over and making a musical idiom easily digestible to a suburban middle class audience. It is lukewarm pop-R&B at best."

To hear you describe it, you'd think "black music" was as inaccessible as "No Wave" or "Grindcore" (oooh! WHITE music, to use your terminology). It's not like R&B is particularly adventurous listening. To assert such parameters does a disservice to the music. Do you think those artists (R&B) had a race-defined agenda when they made it?

― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 1 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What about her insufferably nasal voice? It's quite a funny thing. Almost as obnoxious is her arrogance (at least what I find in her interviews). She talks about how she will do anything the hell she wants on her second album. Now that Timbaland is remixing her and whatnot, does it really make a difference?

― Honda, Saturday, 1 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Nelly Furtado's music is kind of like the way she comes across when you see her. It's trying to be something but it's not really anything. She has the ability to appear smart, because she takes herself quite seriously, but she's a dunce. Her music's just like that: dopey yet pro. Boring. And she looks like she's going bald when she puts the corn rows in. Nelly, if you google this, stop pulling your hair. You're going bald, just like the chick on Real World. As a matter of fact, Nelly could easily be the chick on the Real World (the balding long-haired brunette that wants to be a singer). If you don't know what I mean, check out the top of her head next time the show's on.

― Nude Spock, Saturday, 1 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's quirky po(o)p. Too many ingredients that never mix well.

― helen fordsdale (nathalie), Sunday, 2 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'Basically, she makes R&B records that are not threatening'

Fair enough, but what R&B is 'threatening'? Unless you get hit by a CD flying out a 40th floor window.

― dave q, Sunday, 2 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Good point, Dave Q!

― Alex in NYC, Sunday, 2 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Is Nelly F white?

The R&B NF (apparently) rips off and makes safe outsells her or at least does the same business, I get the impression, so something isn't working.

Anyway she 'rips off R&B' to the same extent that all pop currently does - the image is of a popstar who's got singer-songwriterly chops as well as looks and vocal chops, so she's a bit more 4 Real than say Christina. She's got a nasty adenoidal voice. Ally K liked her first single a lot, Pete B liked her second single a lot. That's all I know.

― Tom, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought that it was Beck that Nelly Furtado was making 'safe'. Michael Taylor's argument baffles me (I generally agree with Michael least with anyone on the board bar Alex in NYC, and the fact that they're disagreeing now leaves me no clear target to attack) - I'd say Furtado is much closer to that class of folky/ethereal female pop singers who draw on electronica and trip hop (eg. predominanty white styles of music derived from black ones) rather than, say, detroit techno and r&b, so if white musicians stealing black musicians' styles is a crime she is at most an insignificant accessory. I definitely remember her saying that Portishead's first album is a pivotal one both to her generally and to the formation of her own's album's style.

― Tim, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's not looking so good for Ms Furtado.

I think I was interested by her because i) her album title had a comics reference in it (since debunked) ii) she's quite attractive in a Salma Hayek kind of way but paradoxically iii) she doesn't let it all hang out the way some of those pop tarts do, so I thought maybe she might make the kind of music I like.

Obviously not. While I'm open to R&B, I'm not open to R&B-lite.

― DV, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

R&B lite = opportunism

R&B = careerism

― dave q, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Furtado to me sounds like a kid from high school who always got the leads in musicals, and everyone thought, "She is sooooo gooood." By some stroke of luck she got a recording contract to sing the shit she sang at the high school talent show - "and we'll jazz it up a bit with a hip-hop beat."

SUCKS.

― Dave225, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

So far a lot of people have been bashing Nelly based on the subpar production. When you hear her over the universally acclaimed "Get ur Freak On" beat, then, these complaints don't bear the same weight anymore. But! I'm sure there are plenty more complaints some of you may have (the irritating voice still stands)... So what is she when crossed with excellent Timbaland production?

― Honda, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Honda, I don't know if anyone who has knocked Nelly's production actually likes much commercial R&B in the first place, so the distinction between her album and her Missy collabo may not be meaningful as such.

― Tim, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah.. i guess that's true. I just thought maybe it'd throw a wrench into all this R&B vs. R&B-lite, white music vs. black music, talk.

― Honda, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Nelly has always struck me as more of a pop-lite Sarah McLachlan/Joan Osborne type than being particularly R&B influenced (barring Get Ur Freak On).

― Nicole, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've thought of something.

Everyone hates indie music because it's deliberately non-mainstream. The best music is that which attempts to appeal to the largest possible audience.

Therefore, Nelly Furtado is scientifically proven to be BRILLIANT, as she is smoothing the rough edges off R&B and making it more accessible to the masses.

Well, I'm convinced. I'll pick up "Woaahhhh Nelly" on the way home.

― DV, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i don't hate indie because its deliberately non-mainstream. the 90s were too full of indie bands that were deliberately mainstream at any cost. "we're the best ever man" etc etc.

― gareth, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Nelly Furtado says that the most beautiful and inspiring song she's ever heard is Wonderwall by Oasis. Or it might be something else. But it's still by Oasis. She totally respects Noel Gallagher. She sings about turning off the light = SHE IS THE TURNER PRIZE IN MUSIC! She mings ruff. Don't do it, DV!

― Sarah, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"I'm Like A Bird" was terrible at first, but it was sort of a grower -- one of those songs you find yourself singing along to without noticing, then sortof freak out when you do notice. Her vocals on Get Ur Freak On were teriffic, however, "nelly nelly nelly-o, on your radi-o." And the Timbaland remix of "Turn Out The Light" is a good deal of fun, and probably one of the more interesting (as in un-Timbaland) numbers he's done in quite some time.

― Sterling Clover, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Nelly F. mixes & matches various genres, creating a big old bland semi-catchy mess of stuff = she is a mutt. And she's better off doing that scat/rap thing than actually singing.

― David Raposa, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No offense to anyone or anything, but do the majority of you people even know who Nelly Furtado is? I'm not defending her "talent" or some such (for the record, I think her album has two solidly good songs, one pretty decent song that got real annoying fast, a pile of pretty inoffensive songs, and one really vile song), but the descriptions of her I'm reading are about as far away from how I'd describe her music as humanly possible. I mean, she's not particularly a very good example of "R&B lite" (whatever that means - I'm still not 100% why this is an insult, or why R&B, um, dark/heavy? why that's a great big compliment). I mean, hell, Britney Spears, who I'd consider to be about as R&B as, say, Oasis, seems more R&B to me than Nelly Furtado. If anything, the majority of her album is in the Jennifer Lopez/Ricky Martin vein of Faux Latino. The closest thing to R&B is probably On The Radio, which is R&B in the way TLC's Unpretty is R&B, i.e. not particularly at all but got classed that way because it was by black chicks. I mean, where do any of you hear the R&B? I'm absolutely geniuinely curious because this is a rather glib insult consistently tossed Nelly's way on this board and I STILL don't see it at all. Tim's on the money - she owes far more to trip hop and female folk-pop a la Sarah McLaughlin or Jewel than she does to any R&B artist. Having a drum in your song /= R&B.

― Ally, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, and btw, I think the idea that white people can't/shouldn't sing R&B tracks, "lite" or not, is one of the most offensive ideas that permeats this msg board.

― Ally, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Pink is a GRATE R&B singer & also white. No dispute there, I hope.

R&B-lite = Jill Scott & Craig David, only one of whom is good. R&B heavy = Maxwell, Tyrese, again only one of whom is good.

― Sterling Clover, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

careerism + opportunism = why else wd you go into pop?

i like her (quite) as long as i don't have to look at her: her melisma = v. extremely anti-R&B

in what way is grindcore "threatening" (unless CD falls off building blah blah)?

― mark s, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Opportunism = when people attempt to go overground, careerism = when people attempt to go (what their idea is of) underground. Careerism is because 'influence' (which helps career longevity) 90% of the time travels from underground to overground. If the artist has a really misguided idea of what 'underground' is, result = novelty song, if not (usually with help of bought-and-paid-for 'advisers'), artist hailed for re-invention, questing spirit etc., both of which are OK, but still careerism. Why else would anyone want to go into pop? Hopefully, because they wouldn't want to do anything even RESEMBLING 'work' ever again.

― dave q, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No music is "threatening" per se (unless, as cited, the disc itself is used as a throwing star or something), but "Grindcore" (just as one example) is not as immediately mellifluous to the ear as most R&B (nor is it designed to be), and thus some might find it "threatening." Moreover, the sentiments expressed in your workaday Grindcore opus generally tend to be a bit more aggressive than those expressed by your average R&B crooner.

― Alex in NYC, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Having a drum in your song /= R&B.

True.

Furtado classification: R&B, Trip-hop, Singer/songwriter, torch-song diva, country, bluegrass, jazz, opera, techno, heavy metal, roots rock, salsa, afropop, ska, chant, folk, etc... - naw

Hack.

― Dave225, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Who are you talking about, Mike Patton?

― dave q, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Like I said, she's a mutt. A mutt with no bite, at that.

― David Raposa, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Pink is a GRATE R&B singer & also white. No dispute there, I hope.

Count me out of the "Get this Party Started" gang. It sounds like one the most bland and predictable dance-pop songs I have heard in awhile. I mean, if theres one unforgivable sin of made for mtv pop, its when the song sounds dated. And Pink's single sounds at least 10 years old, i.e. standard beats and muddled guitar samples.

― bnw, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey, "Get The Party Started" couldn't have come out before '95 at the earliest!

I think if Alex in NYC wasn't scared of R&B he wouldn't complain all the time, therefore R&B = threatening.

― Tim, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Bite me.

― Alex in NYC, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Get The Party Started actually has a mid-90s feel to it, which is a good thing, but is a complete departure from Pink's first album.

Also, R&B = sex. sex = dangerous. According to greek philosophy, therefore R&B = dangerous.

― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah im with ally i thought the blurb that went with nelly furtado was that latino thing, no real connection to r'n'b stuff.

i dont think her music merits any particular scrutiny though. when i think of her, i think of the term 'vocalist'. not singer, just someone who can sing better than her mates, over music that is at the very centre of bland (although i dont like the pejorative here), er....normal, sort of end of 90's music, that in a way, defies description, because it has no distinguishing features/influences.

is nelly furtado well cutting edge then? i look forward to the next edition of the wire*

*this may be a contradiction in terms

― ambrose, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I like Pink and was looking forward to hearing "Get the Party Started". But I have to say I agree with Byron, it didn't do much for me at all the one time I heard it. Then I found out that horrible woman from 4 Non Blondes wrote it. And now I can't even let it grow on me.

― Arthur, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Not only do I like the song, but I like lyrics which have crypto-double-meanings like out of a PkD novel or something. She's my "operator" and I can call her at will. She'll by my connection to the party line. Wow. I feel like Philby.

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Pink is a GRATE R&B singer & also white. No dispute there, I hope.

Dude, Pink is ass, she's almost as objectionable as Gwen Stefani, only not nearly so bad because Gwen is like pure evil or something. Pink's new song is just...argh. And her old songs weren't really much better when I think about it. I DON'T LIKE PINK!

How does R&B = sex? The only music I've ever had sex to is Duran Duran (I swear to god I'm not making that up, TWICE now, it's really fucked up). Oh, and I think Massive Attack once but that was terrible, all I could keep thinking about was "Why has he put on such wanky pretentious 'I'm too soph to put on R&B so I put on this obvious sex music instead'? Shouldn't he just be honest and put on Marvin Bloody Gaye since that's what he's thinking in his head?" No, I don't fancy the idea of having sex to R&B and I don't find anything sexy about the R&B I like.

― Ally, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The R&B I've been getting into lately -- not beat-driven post new jack stuff (which is teriffic, mind you) so much as smooth male crooner R. Kelly "ain't nothing wrong with a little bump and grind" is incredibly sexy. Aaliyah's lyrics on Rock The Boat are some of the dirtiest things I've ever heard.

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, but I think Rock the Boat is like the most boring song on her album. And that video, they died for that? Ugh, it upsets me to think about it. R. Kelly is terrible, which is a shame cos he's got a lovely voice.

― Ally, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Agreed. It's like lame aerobics - "Rock the boat, people! Work the middle, oh yeah! Now change positions ... good, good, good! C'mon, STROKE IT! Yeah, do that stroke..."

However, I have problems with most slow-jams that aren't totally ridiculous (like R. Kelly's).

― David Raposa, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ally speak utter truth about R. Kelly; the best thing that man could do is stop writing music and sing other people's songs. In fact, the only R. Kelly-penned songs I can think of that I like are "Back And Forth" and "Contagious".

If "Rock The Boat" is one of the most boring songs on _Aaliyah_, I MUST HAVE THAT ALBUM.

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

So yes. I have a mission to win the ILX massive to the slow-jam nation. Watch out, because I'm plotting.

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

There's nothing wrong with a slow jam. It's just that most of them are stupid.

Would it be impolite to ask about the status of the sex lives of posters who think of that as sex music?

― Ally, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

music for sex != music which is sexy. Not always, at least.

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Altho I have been driving in cars w/ friends and some particularly good slow jam comes on & we start y'know, looking at each-other like that at least for a moment. At the same point, if I invite some gurl up to my flat I'd feel dead goofy trying to do the whole slo-jam, couch, arm sneaking thing.

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sterling, have you heard En Vogue's last album? Some lovely sumptuous slow jam stuff on there. I'm sure meanwhile the R Kelly might be good, but the only thing he ever charted for in Australia was 'I Believe I Can Fly'.

― Tim, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

*That* song is, of course, unspeakable, and don't start me on "The Storm Is Over Now", but I remember "Bump'n'Grind" being a hit in the UK (though I think it took a reissue to make it so) and it was and is very very good. I vaguely recall liking "You Remind Me Of Something" as well.

― Robin Carmody, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ally is half-right about "Rock The Boat": it's a good song, but it could easily lose up to a minute or so and no-one would be the wiser. The same applies to "I Refuse" (probably my least favourite song on the album even if it occassionally it sounds fantastic, but at any rate certainly not "boring"). But Dan, why have you procrastinated? Even a fule could tell you that it's an excellent album.

― Tim, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It is a good album, but actually Tim I have that problem with ALL of the tracks, they should be a bit shorter. Her songs have a tendency to keep going when clearly the steam is gone, almost like they were told "YOU HAVE TO FILL FIVE MINUTES OR ELSE!" or something equally silly by the execs and thus are doing it. It's not nearly as bad as Destiny's Child and their "We will repeat the chorus 10,000 times per song to make it longer than 2.5 minutes" thing, plus I think Aaliyah's best songs are better than DC's best songs, but it's still an issue.

― Ally, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

obviously you idiots on this site do not understand the words musician or composition, there is more to music than lyrics you stupid people, listen to the instruments the diversity the tempos of each its more work than you idiots think it is, a muso myself, i know a revolutionary sound fusioned artist when i hear one.

― poetic plague, Monday, 29 November 2004 22:52 (twenty years ago)

mmmmmm yes

― adam... (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 November 2004 22:57 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

"Maneater" is really good, can't stop listening to it. THANKYOU timbaland.

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 13 February 2006 08:30 (nineteen years ago)

This is my fave 2006 single.It's like everything I like in Lady Sovereign and Kelis in a single track.

― snowballing (snowballing), Monday, 13 February 2006 09:24 (nineteen years ago)

Oh wow, Timbaland! YSI please! :-)))

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 13 February 2006 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://s62.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0JJU2ONHHI9TI33GE79KERH3TG

― snowballing (snowballing), Monday, 13 February 2006 09:39 (nineteen years ago)

thought i might like this, but confired, she is fucking dreadful.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Monday, 13 February 2006 09:47 (nineteen years ago)

why does she sing? b/c talking that way is not enough.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Monday, 13 February 2006 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

the fran drescher of music!

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Monday, 13 February 2006 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

oh hater, her personality is endearing, chirpy b-girl style.

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

apparently she's all angry and down-with-love on this new record. guess the marriage didn't last very long.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

I don't like Nelly too much but at least she had the sense to stay out of the way of this beat. MONSTER.

― Eppy (Eppy), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

It's like Jam & Lewis producing led zep's lost synth-rock masterpiece.

― Eppy (Eppy), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

i'm surprised at all the nelly-haters, this seems tailored to her style.

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 13 February 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

That "I'm like a bird" song was being played by a certain radio station at the same time every morning every day for like 2 months at one point. And that was the only station they played at my work. I was one day away from driving my car to her house and giving her a piece of my mind.

― I am the second robot version of me, Monday, 13 February 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

This sounds like Timbaland's Kenna, melodically.

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 13 February 2006 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

Also, it had "soul" in the chorus, which is never good.

― Eppy (Eppy), Monday, 13 February 2006 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

I.e. the word "soul" not the quality.

― Eppy (Eppy), Monday, 13 February 2006 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

This is great. But I liked Nelly's first album so yeah.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Monday, 13 February 2006 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

Apparently there is another song named "Promiscuous Girl" floating around.. anyone have it?

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Monday, 13 February 2006 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

Am I the only person who thinks this sounds like a Gravy Train!!!! song?

― Jeff Reguilon (Talent Explosion), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 00:01 (nineteen years ago)

I hope.

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 00:31 (nineteen years ago)

Nelly ft. Timbaland - Promiscuous Girl. This is the version that's been on a few mixtapes.

― Gregory T (tubesocks), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 00:38 (nineteen years ago)

not that michael taylor is reading this but he's an idiot. imagine herc (black) didn't sample kraftwerk (white), no hip-hop. no music exists, for long, without some other culture peering in, changing, adding, expanding it, exploring.

― the rock n roll nigga (the rock n roll nigga), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 08:17 (nineteen years ago)

"Promiscuous Girl", the full version

― Mind Taker, Tuesday, 14 February 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.burninthespotlight.com/

so apparently nelly's next ablum is entirely produced by timbaland. the two first songs being great i can't wait to hear the rest (i don't really get the hate for nelly here... bah...even the presence of chris martin is not enough to turn me away from her !).

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Friday, 24 February 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

six years pass...

anyone check out her new album?

― cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Monday, 24 September 2012 13:49 (thirteen years ago)

I am two tracks in and I am regaining respect for Rodney Jerkins, which I did not expect

― cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Monday, 24 September 2012 13:52 (thirteen years ago)

i liked a lot of the production on this, pity the songwriting doesn't really match up

― lex pretend, Monday, 24 September 2012 13:55 (thirteen years ago)

The songs don't seem any weaker than what she had on Loose to me.

― cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Monday, 24 September 2012 14:12 (thirteen years ago)

http://www.npr.org/2012/09/20/161403153/nelly-furtado-inspires-the-spirit-indestructible

This profile thing focusses on uplift and her save the children efforts but doesn't say a lot re how this impacts her album musically. It also addresses her lyrical transition back to English from Spanish.

― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 September 2012 14:44 (thirteen years ago)

okay this Tiesto remix of "Thoughts" is wholly unnecessary

― cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Monday, 24 September 2012 14:55 (thirteen years ago)

feel kinda bad for her that this is her first English album since Loose and nobody has an idea it's coming out

― some dude, Monday, 24 September 2012 14:58 (thirteen years ago)

There was a thing in this mornings Metro about it.

― Mark G, Monday, 24 September 2012 15:23 (thirteen years ago)

Randall Roberts in the LA Times loves it:

On her fifth studio album, "The Spirit Indestructible," Furtado teams with superstar producer-songwriter Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, Salaam Remi and Passion Pit founder Mike Angelekos to create a thick, jam-filled joyride with more emotional heft than all her peers save maybe Beyoncé. Madonna wishes she could make a record as vital and imaginative as even the lesser tracks on "Spirit."

― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 September 2012 15:59 (thirteen years ago)

this is way way waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than MDNA

― cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Monday, 24 September 2012 17:15 (thirteen years ago)

thick, jam-filled

http://kitchen.buddygo.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Swiss-Roll.png

― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 24 September 2012 17:48 (thirteen years ago)

hmmm I want to check this out

― did drake invent yolo (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 24 September 2012 18:21 (thirteen years ago)

http://open.spotify.com/album/3PIatRn64R1SHgn3PzlvxU

― cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Monday, 24 September 2012 18:23 (thirteen years ago)

feel kinda bad for her that this is her first English album since Loose and nobody has an idea it's coming out

― some dude, Monday, 24 September 2012

"big hoops" was kind of like a big deal in the UK and environs

― zvookster, Monday, 24 September 2012 18:49 (thirteen years ago)

The songs don't seem any weaker than what she had on Loose to me.

really? they're not weak or obviously bad per se but there's nothing here as addictive, like need-to-hear-on-loop-for-foreseeable-future addictive, as half of loose. they're just okayish.

this is way way waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than MDNA

well yeah, lol

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 05:15 (thirteen years ago)

"big hoops" was kind of like a big deal in the UK and environs

― zvookster, Monday, September 24, 2012 2:49 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ok, but in the US her last album had multiple #1 hits and so far this one hasn't even cracked the Hot 100

also woah zvookster's back

― some dude, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 11:15 (thirteen years ago)

big hoops seems a little tryhard no? not to say a lot of her previous stuff didn't

― teledyldonix, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 18:12 (thirteen years ago)

ok this album is pretty hard to take, especially when furtado says things like "banger" and "drop the beat" in her mom jeans speaking voice between songs

― some dude, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 21:50 (thirteen years ago)

She did that on Loose too!

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 21:52 (thirteen years ago)

haha i never listened to that album in full, gross

― some dude, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 21:58 (thirteen years ago)

three months pass...

I kinda dig this

― flags in the post (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 20 January 2013 05:12 (twelve years ago)

nine years pass...

"I'm Like a Bird" apart from being a lovely song seems singular to me in that it's a debut single from a 22-year old who holds solo writing credits and won a grammy for song of the year, Billboard #9 peak but absolutely massive in other countries

― corrs unplugged, Friday, 6 May 2022 06:27 (three years ago)

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