Posts tagged "Nelly Furtado"
Spin Cycle: Nelly Furtado, The Spirit Indestructible

Spin Cycle: Nelly Furtado, The Spirit Indestructible

Six years is a long time. Can Nelly Furtado pick up where she left off with “The Spirit Indestructible?”

The Singles Bar: No Doubt; "Settle Down"

The Singles Bar: No Doubt; “Settle Down”

No Doubt is back and ain’t nothin’ changed! Check out their new single, “Settle Down.”

The Singles Bar: Nelly Furtado (Featuring Nas), "Something"

The Singles Bar: Nelly Furtado (Featuring Nas), “Something”

Nelly Furtado is back with a new single. Check out “Something,” which features a rap from Nas.

The Viewfinder: Nelly Furtado’s “Big Hoops (Bigger The Better)”

Come on. Y’all act like you’ve never seen a person on stilts before! Lyrically, the video for “Big Hoops (Bigger The Better)” the new single from Nelly Furtado’s forthcoming The Spirit Indestructible, references a passel of ’90s pop culture reference. Visually, there’s not much in relation to the song, but the video is still pretty hard to turn away from. It strikes a decent midpoint between Nelly’s hippy-dippy early work and her flossy recent work, and it’s kinda cool to […]

The Singles Bar: Nelly Furtado’s “Big Hoops (Bigger The Better)”

It’s been a hot minute since Nelly Furtado has put out an English-language album of original material. Can you believe it’s been almost six years since “Promiscuous” and “Say It Right” burned up dancefloors? Of course, she hasn’t been sitting on her ass since those singles (and the album that contained them, Loose) topped the charts. Nelly released a Spanish-language album and a greatest hits collection, and she’s collaborated with a plethora of artists, including K’Naan (their current collaboration “Is […]

The Singles Bar: K’Naan’s “Is Anybody Out There?” feat. Nelly Furtado

K’naan caught my attention a couple of years ago with his album Troubadour and the song “Wavin’ Flag.” The album contained featured appearances from everyone from Chubb Rock to Adam Levine and cast K’naan firmly in between k-os and Wyclef Jean. He was a lot more obviously commercial than the former and a ton less sketchy than the latter. At any rate, the initial burst of success for K’naan was sustained by “Wavin’ Flag”‘s placement as the theme song for […]

New Release Report 11/16/10: The Reissue Theory

It’s mid-November, just a week and change until Thanksgiving, so of course there are a ton of albums coming out today. Most of them, however, are either compilations or repackagings. Some of them are worth it. Some of them, not so much. Anyway, here’s a sampling of the new old stuff you’re gonna see in stores and online this week. Easily, the biggest news is a massive reissue of Bruce Springsteen’s “Darkness on the Edge of Town”. The Boss’s fourth […]

Nelly Furtado’s “Night is Young”: Swing & a Miss

Some people are more talented than they’re given credit for. I dug Nelly Furtado when she first came out because she went against the grain a little bit. She had some hippie-chick in her, but she added a little bit of flavor to that hippie vibe. “I’m Like a Bird” was quirky and cool, but she sounded equally at home on the “Get Ur Freak On” remix with Missy Elliott. After a relatively unsuccessful second album, “Folklore” (which is actually […]