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