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by Bootleg Al Whoa Nelly! What the fuck happened to you?! 5 years ago you were as ‘free as a bird’ inflicting us all with your innocent one-hit wonder latino-pop. Now you sound like you’ve been tied up too long in Peaches’ sordid S’n’M basement, starved of nutrition and continually called a filthy slut until it stuck. Well guess what, I guess it worked! With 2 massive hits under your belt you’re back on-top (pun intended). Obviously not everyone had given up on little Nelly Furtado, in fact quite the opposite, be it due to money or love but Furtado managed to land herself the biggest man (literally) in the hip-hop game, the holy-grail of beat makers Timberland (Missy, Jay-Z, Justin Trousersnake) for co-production duties. Gone are the catchy, bright and painfully forgettable numbers of her debut, replaced instead by 14 sex-drenched sleazy electro infused r’n’b power hits that have propelled the (according to her massive comeback singles) ‘promiscuous nymphomatic’ Nelly Furtado to the heightened ranks of pop-starlet, joining such gems as Christina, Britney and Jessica. But is the album actually any good? In a word…No. The album opens extremely strongly with Nelly’s new found sultry and sullen vocal over trademark Timberland high-hats and squelches, along with a chorus Paris Hilton would kill for. Next up we get the 2 massive floor-filling camp club hits. You’ve heard them a million times already, they’re great, period! So far so good, Timberland is doing his job and everyone’s happy. Track 4 however is by all measures pretty poor, but after 3 of the strongest opening album tracks this year you can let a little dud slip by right?! Wrong. Unfortunately this record goes rapidly downhill. By the time you hit the first of the albums ballards, Showtime, the excitement is gone and I’m literally running to the stereo to make the pain stop. If you do manage to get past you’ll be ‘treated’ to No Hay Igual the first track of the album that draws upon Nelly’s Portugese roots. From here on in Loose flitters between Miami styled R&B, Latino pop, 80s electro and reggaeton. Apparently there’s a duet on this record with Chris Martin but (un)fortunately I didn’t make it that far!
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NELLY
FURTADO - LOOSE