I like her new album a lot!

True, it's not like her old stuff, but to tell you the truth her music used to annoy me a little. ( I still loved it, it was just overplayed and worn out.)

It's a very good album... :-D

liked a lot "In God's hands" "What I wanted" and "All good things"

I want to marry her!

I like her new song man eater.

^ me too!

oh, and AlexTHFC, I'd go gay for her! :wink3: Anytime, Nelly, anytime....

 

Anyway, excuse my perversions, I just bought her first album today. I was going to buy Coldplay's special edition of X&Y (it looked so SHINY and NEW) But I decided to go with Nell F. In the car I was like:"This was probably a mistake" but it wasn't! I'm very happy! I think she may be one of my new favorites....

^ me too!

oh, and AlexTHFC, I'd go gay for her! :wink3: Anytime, Nelly, anytime....

 

Anyway, excuse my perversions, I just bought her first album today. I was going to buy Coldplay's special edition of X&Y (it looked so SHINY and NEW) But I decided to go with Nell F. In the car I was like:"This was probably a mistake" but it wasn't! I'm very happy! I think she may be one of my new favorites....

 

Hahaha, if I was a girl then I would too! lol

I like her new song 'promiscuous':D

'explode','try' and sh*t on the radio are one of the best non- coldplay songs i've ever heard !!:cool:

I heard her new singles are going to be "Say it right" and then "Showtime"

 

Great because those are awesome songs... :)

I like Nelly, esc. her new song.

I love Try so much. Its lyrics are really exceptional.

I can't stop listening to it time and time again!

She is one hot MILF!!! i like the song maneater

Songbird gets loose at MEN

 

GRAMMY Award-winning songbird Nelly Furtado flies into the MEN Arena on Friday, February 16.

 

Kicking off her Get Loose UK tour in Manchester, Furtado will work through her early chart hits I'm Like a Bird and Turn off the Light through to the UK No 1 singles Promiscuous and Maneater as well as her latest single smash hit, All Good Things, co-written by Coldplay's Chris Martin.

 

Singer-songwriter Furtado burst onto the scene in 2000 with her critically acclaimed debut album, Whoa, Nelly!, establishing herself as an innovative and unique artist.

 

Having sold over five million copies worldwide, her third album, Loose, followed the same success rocketing to the No 1 spot in six countries with over three million albums sold to date. The album, mostly produced by Timbaland, shows Nelly experimenting with a more R'n'B, hip-hop sound.

 

Having picked up a gong at every major award ceremony this year, including an MTV VMA, American Music Awards and a World Music Award, Nelly Furtado has remerged as Canada's greatest pop singer.

 

* Tickets, priced £23.50, are available from the box office on 0870 190 8000

 

http://iccheshireonline.icnetwork.co.uk/entertainment/newsandreviews/tm_headline=songbird-gets-loose-at-men-&method=full&objectid=18398620&siteid=50020-name_page.html

I have her latest tune "Say It Right" as my ringtone.... :)

SHIT

I totally forgot about her when I bought a ringtone today. I bought YYY.

Still love her though. Still will go gay for her! lol.

 

I didn't like Say It Right until it became a single.

 

Am I the only one who doesn't like her second album??? It's so...blah. Her first album stayed in rotation on my iPod for at least a month!

^ admit I don't own it 'Loose' but i guess thats the reason!! lol I wasn't about to pay for it if I was only 'feelin' like 3 songs on there..... the rest was like.. 'eh'.... the first album still gets rotated on my iPod!! Its such a diverse album... no 2 tracks sound alike on that.... this one is just 'eh'....

whoa, nelly! is by far her best album the 2nd one was ? and this one, to be honest at first i was so disappointed. i thought she lost her uniqueness and became all hollywood-ish, but after buying it (mainly because of all good things co-written by chris martin etc) and listening to the tracks, it's not half bad. in fact, it's pretty good in general. i gave it a 2 before, but now it's up to a 7.

from folklore, try and childhood dreams (is that it?) are definitely nice songs!

Nelly Furtado’s 2007 Get Loose UK Tour

 

 

AEG Live bring Grammy winning and multi platinum selling singer Nelly Furtado to the UK

 

February 2007 will see the return of pop sensation Nelly Furtado to the UK.

 

On the back of her hugely successful album Loose, Nelly will be performing five gigs as part of her 'Get Loose' World Tour.

 

Tickets are available through the 24-Hour hotline: 0871 230 4422 or online @ http://www.aeglive.co.uk

 

Kicking off her UK tour on the 16th February at the Manchester MEN, fans across the country will be on their feet as Nelly works through chart hits, ‘I’m Like a Bird’, ‘Turn off the Light’ through to the UK no. 1 singles Promiscuous, Maneater and her latest single All Good Things co-written by Coldplay’s Chris Martin.

 

February 2007

16 Manchester MEN

17 Glasgow Clyde Auditorium

20 Birmingham NEC

21 London Hammersmith Apollo

 

Singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado burst on to the scene in 2000 with her critically acclaimed debut album Whoa Nelly, establishing herself as an innovative and unique artist. Having sold over 5 million copies worldwide, her third album Loose followed the same success, rocketing to No. 1 in six countries with over 3 million sold to date. The album, mostly produced by Timbaland, showed Nelly experimenting with a more R&B, hip hop sound. Having picked up a gong at every major award ceremony last year including a MTV VMA, American Music Awards and a World Music Award, Nelly Furtado has remerged as Canada’s greatest pop singer.

 

Don’t miss your chance to watch Nelly Furtado perform her most popular club anthems live!

 

http://www.rwdmag.com/articles/fullstory.php?&sid=&id=3185

I always liked her but rather listened to them because my father always would. He still does. I just saw an interview on youtube with her, she sounded really stupid...

Yesterday I watched Nelly Furtado's "Say It Right" at "Wetten, dass..?" before going out and I kinda liked it! I have to admit... she's hot! :wink3:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZND2SpKq7PM

Songstress soars on success

 

The pop sensation kicks off her national tour on Nelly Furtado Day

 

Doubters who thought Nelly Furtado's music couldn't sustain the stratospheric success of her smash debut are keeping quiet at the moment. They might even be changing their tune.

 

She is soaring high again this year, following a record-setting 2006 for the Victoria native.

 

Acting roles on prime-time television. Halftime performances at championship football games. Major artistic awards, including her fifth Grammy Award nomination. The offer to host the Juno Awards in Saskatoon on April 1. Even a rarefied acknowledgment by her hometown, which proclaimed earlier this week that March 21 - the start of her first national tour in three years -is officially Nelly Furtado Day in Victoria.

 

All of this would mean nothing, of course, if she didn't have a list of artistic achievements to back up the hubbub.

 

She most certainly has those. After almost a year on the U.S. sales charts, Furtado's third album, Loose, sits tight at No. 7, with worldwide sales past the two-million mark. The Timbaland-produced effort has earned platinum or gold sales certifications in more than 25 countries, including Canada, where it has sold more than 400,000 copies.

 

The album's third smash single, Say It Right, holds the No. 10 position on the Billboard Hot 100, with a fourth song - All Good Things (Come To An End), co-written by Chris Martin of Coldplay - prepped to follow suit in the coming weeks. That will have to wait: The video for Say It Right moved this week into the Top 20 at MTV.

 

Furtado doesn't appear to be motivated, or all that impressed, by her statistical achievements. But she admits the success of Loose is a vindication of sorts, particularly after the lack of attention paid to her underrated sophomore outing from 2003, Folklore.

 

"This album has been so liberating - it's been a lifesaver, in a way," Furtado, 28, said in an interview prior to the upcoming Get Loose tour.

 

Furtado's focus

 

"All of a sudden I can see myself doing this for an entire lifetime. If you asked me five years ago, I would have told you the music business was OK, but maybe I'll end up doing something else. Now I have a hope, even if it's only my mother in the audience, that this career will be my mainstay."

 

She was an unknown in 2000 when Dreamworks (a record label founded by Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and former Disney chief Jeffrey Katzenberg) released Whoa, Nelly!, her debut.

 

Furtado, it's worth noting, had yet to celebrate her 22nd birthday at the time of its release. But that didn't stop the boo birds.

 

The singer, many whispered, was another big-business creation whose Portuguese heritage and folksy image were key selling points.

 

When the song I'm Like a Bird took flight, later topping the charts worldwide, the jeers grew even louder - unfairly so. The long arm of Dreamworks was a big help early on; her first print interview was in Vanity Fair magazine, and her debut TV performance was on Saturday Night Live. But Furtado was definitely feeling the heat.

 

"I really wasn't used to the showbiz thing at all," she said. "I had only played maybe 10 live performances in my entire life - including musical theatre performances in high school - before signing a record deal."

 

Over time, it was obvious she was more than a studio creation. She could sing to the heavens, yes - but Furtado could also write, produce and play guitar. Three years later, she tried to do and say it all on Folklore (where she sang, "I'm not a one-trick pony, for you I will not dance, and for you I will not prance"), but fans literally weren't buying it. It topped out at No. 38 on the U.S. sales charts.

 

Many believe her radical change in direction on Loose, both visually and sonically, was a direct response to Folklore's lukewarm reception.

 

She had to learn to ignore such talk, even when it came from her beloved Portuguese community. Everybody grows up at some point, Furtado said, and with that comes thicker skin and more self-confidence.

 

Let Loose

 

"It's a thing you have to get over as an adult, I think. I've just got to live my life. I finally let go and really stopped worrying so much about what everybody thinks about my music, and went with what really feels right for me."

 

Her three-year-old daughter, Nevis, played a substantial role in Furtado's coming-out-party. If anything, the need to lead by example, for her daughter's sake, is what prompted Furtado to adopt her new try-anything mindset.

 

"There's a real liberation that comes with that," she said. "When you finally let go and say, 'You know what? I've just got to be myself.' The only way you can truly be inspiring is when you just be yourself, whatever that entails, even if it that leads you down roads that some people kind of furrow their eyebrows at. You've got to stick your neck out sometimes."

 

http://www.hfxnews.ca/index.cfm?sid=17639&sc=95

Nelly Furtado - Say it right (live @ Rock am Ring 2006)

 

I especially like the guitar at the end...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-Hlw76xR5c

Nelly soars with 'what feels right'

 

 

Superstar with Island roots proves her staying power at rarefied heights of pop

 

Doubters who thought Nelly Furtado's music couldn't sustain the stratospheric success of her smash debut are keeping quiet at the moment.

 

They might even be changing their tune.

 

She is soaring high again this year, following a record-setting 2006 for the Victoria native.

 

Acting roles on prime-time television. Half-time performances at championship football games. Major artistic awards, including her fifth Grammy Award nomination. The offer to host the Juno Awards in Saskatoon on April 1. Even a rarefied acknowledgment by her hometown, which proclaimed earlier this week that March 21-- the start of her first national tour in three years -- is officially Nelly Furtado Day in Victoria.

 

All of this would mean nothing, of course, if she didn't have a list of artistic achievements to back up the hubbub.

 

She most certainly has those. After almost a year on the U.S. sales charts, Furtado's third album, Loose, sits tight at No. 7, with worldwide sales past the two-million mark. The Timbaland-produced effort has earned platinum or gold sales certifications in more than 25 countries, including Canada, where it has sold more than 400,000 copies.

 

The album's third smash single, Say It Right, holds the No. 10 position on the Billboard Hot 100, with a fourth song -- All Good Things (Come To An End), co-written by Chris Martin of Coldplay -- prepped to follow suit in the coming weeks. That will have to wait: The video for Say It Right moved this week into the Top 20 at MTV.

 

Furtado doesn't appear to be motivated, or all that impressed, by her statistical achievements. But she admits the success of Loose is a vindication of sorts, particularly after the lack of attention paid to her underrated sophomore outing from 2003, Folklore.

 

"This album has been so liberating -- it's been a lifesaver, in a way," Furtado, 28, told the Times Colonist, in one of the few interviews she gave prior to the upcoming Get Loose tour.

 

"All of a sudden I can see myself doing this for an entire lifetime. If you asked me five years ago, I would have told you the music business was OK, but maybe I'll end up doing something else. Now I have a hope, even if it's only my mother in the audience, that this career will be my mainstay."

 

She was an unknown in 2000 when Dreamworks (a record label founded by Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and former Disney chief Jeffrey Katzenberg) released Whoa, Nelly!, her debut.

 

Furtado, it's worth noting, had yet to celebrate her 22nd birthday at the time of its release. But that didn't stop the boo birds. The singer, many whispered, was another big-business creation whose Portuguese heritage and folksy image were key selling points.

 

When the song I'm Like a Bird took flight, later topping the charts worldwide, the jeers grew even louder -- unfairly so. The long arm of Dreamworks was a big help early on; her first print interview was in Vanity Fair magazine, and her debut TV performance was on Saturday Night Live. But Furtado was definitely feeling the heat.

 

"I really wasn't used to the showbiz thing at all," she said. "I had only played maybe 10 live performances in my entire life -- including musical theatre performances in high school -- before signing a record deal."

 

Over time, it was obvious she was more than a studio creation. She could sing to the heavens, yes -- but Furtado could also write, produce and play guitar. Three years later, she tried to do and say it all on Folklore (where she sang, "I'm not a one-trick pony, for you I will not dance, and for you I will not prance") but fans literally weren't buying it. It topped out at No. 38 on the U.S. sales charts.

 

Many believe her radical change in direction on Loose, both visually and sonically, was a direct response to Folklore's lukewarm reception.

 

She had to learn to ignore such talk, even when it came from her beloved Portuguese community. Everybody grows up at some point, Furtado said, and with that comes thicker skin and more self-confidence. "It's a thing you have to get over as an adult, I think. I've just got to live my life. I finally let go and really stopped worrying so much about what everybody thinks about my music, and went with what really feels right for me."

 

Her three-year-old daughter, Nevis, played a substantial role in Furtado's coming-out-party. If anything, the need to lead by example, for her daughter's sake, is what prompted Furtado to adopt her new try-anything mindset.

 

"There's a real liberation that comes with that," she said. "When you finally let go and say, 'You know what? I've just got to be myself.' The only way you can truly be inspiring is when you just be yourself, whatever that entails, even if it that leads you down roads that some people kind of furrow their eyebrows at. You've got to stick your neck out sometimes."

 

In late June, she laid everything on the line with Loose, and came up aces. The record debuted at No. 1 on both the U.S. and Canadian sales charts, earning Furtado her best single-week sales total and her first No. 1 on the U.S. charts.

 

"It's all about choices, like in any career. You get all these options thrown at you, and in the beginning of my career my answer was to say no to everything so I don't make a mistake. That's what I did in the beginning, but now I'm a bit more mature.

 

"What's the worst thing that can happen? Let me try this and see how it feels. I never thought I would be dancing in videos and doing choreography, but the moment I started it felt like, 'Oh my God! It's a whole new career!' Life is not that serious after all. I don't have to win 10 Nobel Peace Prizes. I can kind of have fun in what I do."

 

http://www.canada.com

All Good Things Video - World Premiere at MTV

 

 

Los Angeles,CA. (Top40 Charts/ Geffen Records) - If she didn't look so gorgeous in it, Nelly Furtado's brand-new video, "All Good Things (Come to An End)" would probably be the ultimate buzz kill.

 

The fourth single to stem from her platinum- selling album Loose was co-written by Coldplay's Chris Martin, who knows a thing or two about writing sad songs. And Nelly's understated Earth mother appearance (she is a mom, after all) in the video, while still sexier than her original pigtails-and-overalls hippie chick look, pairs perfectly with the track's emotional overtones and the haunting, reflective refrain.

 

While her recent public persona has been more erotic than ethereal, directing duo Israel Lugo and Gabriel Coss employ a sobering style to match the breakup ballad's somber tone.

 

Watch as a more pure, pensive Nelly Furtado reveals yet another flawless facet of her femininity in her latest video.

 

http://top40-charts.com/news.php?nid=31483

Nelly Furtado is no one-trick pony

 

 

Nelly Furtado has an explanation for why her third album, “Loose,” explodes with electric, bodily energy. It’s not just because she left her native Canada for the tropical metropolis of Miami to get busy with recording, or merely that sparks flew - literally - when she hooked up with super-producer Timothy “Timbaland” Mosley.

 

It’s also because two years after her daughter Nevis’ birth, she weaned her.

 

“I think I started recording this album the same month I stopped nursing my daughter,” Furtado says over the phone from the green room of “The Tonight Show,” where she recently performed. “Maybe I did feel liberated. I finally went, `Oh my body’s finally mine again - yippee!’ You have a lot to write about, too. That’s why the album’s ... like an emotional whirlwind.”

 

With its provocative hit club singles “Promiscuous” and “Maneater,” Furtado, 29, is the iconic “hot mom.” The CD’s free-spirited vibe is also shaped by the fact she separated from her daughter’s father, DJ Jasper Gahunia, before writing and recording. On “Loose,” she frolics in pleasure and freedom.

 

“Breakups are liberating, in a way, but then also motherhood’s liberating,” Furtado says.

 

Of course, this is easier for a woman who can afford a nanny and amicably splits custody with her ex to say than for the average working single mom. But the singer and songwriter says she relishes the relative challenges of parenting.

 

“I had a great schedule: I’d go to the beach till about 8 p.m. with my daughter, then I’d go to the studio till 4 a.m., then I’d sleep for about three hours. I went through this weird phase where I was sleep-deprived. Most of the times it’s funny, thank goodness.”

 

Furtado got her groove back in Miami, so it’s fitting the descendant of Portuguese immigrants is kicking off her “Loose” tour at there this week.

 

“Miami is a very alive city. I love the people, I love the Latin heritage, especially the fact that there are so many second- and third-generation families. It creates a really unique culture and society that doesn’t exist elsewhere,” she says. “It feels like its own country, its own nation. I felt comfortable in my skin because I am Hispanic.”

 

Furtado grew up in British Columbia. Her parents immigrated from the Azores Islands. At home she spoke Portuguese and English. “Loose” includes two songs in Spanish, a language she learned at 14: “No Hay Igual” is a reggaeton number, “Te Busque” she sings with Juanes (it’s a follow-up to their `03 duet “Fotografia"). On her second album, “Folklore,” she sang with legendary Brazilian singer Caetano Veloso. Furtado also recorded a song for the new “Bajofondo Tango Club” album. She’s talked about recording an entire Latin CD but says she’s waiting until she has more time.

 

“Singing in Portuguese or Spanish, I feel a little more in touch with my soul, a little more honest in my delivery,” she says.

 

Furtado began playing music at 9 and writing songs a few years later. After high school, she moved to Toronto, where she formed the trip-hop duo Nelstar. She left that and began working with producers Tr and Field. Her 2000 debut, “Whoa, Nelly!,” featured folky pop songs, including the huge Grammy-winning hit “I’m Like a Bird.”

 

For “Folklore,” Furtado got more experimental. Although it includes “Forca,” the official song of the `04 European Football Championship, the album sold poorly. The artist knew she wanted to try a different tack with her third recording.

 

“I wanted an iconic pop album that was a little more simplified and streamlined,” she says. “I had that vision for myself, I really wanted to see if I could do that. Almost like a personal challenge: `I wonder if people could like me if I didn’t layer the song with 10 different instruments.’”

 

She hooked up with some of the biggest producers in the biz, including Pharrell and Scott Storch. But it wasn’t until she went into Hit Factory/Criterion studio with Timbaland that something clicked - in fact, exploded.

 

“I saw Tim and it was like seeing an old friend, cause we hadn’t seen each other in five years. The first beat he put up caused the speaker to catch fire, because the rubber burned.”

 

They communed not only over their love of hip-hop, but also over vintage new wave and electro, like Blondie and the Eurythmics. Both were also listening to modern alternative artists. Coldplay’s Chris Martin joined them in the studio after 2005’s VMAs and co-wrote the song “All Good Things.”

 

“Tim has the same voracious appetite for music that I do. He doesn’t discriminate. He’ll use a jingle from a popcorn commercial if it sounded good. I like that innocence, because there’s a lot of pretension with any art form - you find pretension and you find purity. Timbaland’s all purity. He’s not jaded and he doesn’t have any laws that govern him. Kind of like an outlaw.”

 

Not surprisingly, some of Furtado’s more serious-minded fans have bristled at the pop grooves of “Loose.” The performer defends her taste: “We don’t value dance music in the same way, because it’s so basic: Oh, this music makes me dance. I think that’s why some really good electronic music is not taken seriously.”

 

She also says “Loose’s” success has freed her creatively. “It’s going to get really exciting for me in the future in terms of exploring other stuff. Under the pop umbrella, I think I’ve proven a lot with the third CD, and now I feel even more liberated as an artist. I can truly satisfy my whims.”

 

“Loose” came out last summer, but Furtado is just now promoting it with stateside shows. She says she’s been focusing on TV appearances and touring elsewhere; thanks in part to Furtado’s multilingualism, she’s a star in numerous countries.

 

Miami inspired Furtado so much, she’s using South Beach as a setting for her stage show: “There are white linen palm trees.” With dancers and costume changes, it’s her biggest production yet, but she still wants to emphasize the music. Unlike so many other pop divas who love dance music, Furtado is also an instrumentalist. She can play guitar, keyboards, trombone and ukulele.

 

“The tone of this show is fun and energy. I’ve become more confident, I don’t try to over-achieve onstage anymore. I don’t have as much to prove. I realize people come to see the songs performed. That’s what I’m going to try to do.”

 

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/news/article/41800/nelly-furtado-is-no-one-trick-pony/