WHET Nelly Furtardo

She got fat.

The words necessary to describe the extreme suckage of that song have yet to be invented.

[quote]The words necessary to describe the extreme suckage of that song have yet to be invented.

Which song, Promiscuous Girl?

You forgot Maneater. Wasn’t that her biggest hit?

Big Hoops and Parking Lot were Torpedoes Number 1 & 2.

She was lucky to have had the career she did. Esthero did it all first, and better.

R4 overseas. In the USA Promiscuous Girl was.

She reminds me of the dorky girl in school who gets an image makeover, starts trying to put on the sex appeal, hanging out with bad boys, acting tough.

She hasn't had a hit in 13 years, she should have followed up her Loose Album sooner.

People forget how she was one of *the* sounds of the 2000s, I still like to go back and listen to her old tracks, there hasn't been a collab like Nelly and Timberland since, lightening in a pop bottle.

R9 true and she ruled the summer of 06 as did Timbaland and JT. Their songs were everywhere. It was just such an expected turn in her career given her first record. I would also say the collaboration of Gwen Steffani and Pharrell was also really good which is why Madge tried to recreate it on Hard Candy on the songs she did with Pharrell.

My faves were Turn Off The Light and Say It Right

Say It Right also had her best look

Years ago she had a concert in my country. She flew here only a few hours before the concert and while most celebs would head straight into the hotel to get some rest she decided to visit the National Museum instead. Sounds like a very smart lady to me.

Her Timbaland album was largely inspired by Gwen Stefani's solo debut, I think she herself has said this herself. To me, Gwen's sound (and Timbaland's) was possibly the defining one of the mid 00s.

Timbaland has been making good music since the late 90s.

Farty Nutella

I meant to say an unexpected turn in her career not expected

I wondered the same thing, OP. She supposedly had kids and stepped back from the limelight but I’m not sure if that was preferred or because she was fading? She had a great run in the early to mid 2000s. Why Do All Good Things Come to an End (Not sure of it is titled this) is a great song and unexpectedly sad. I bought her Folklore album in 2003? Or so before Loose came out and really enjoyed the album’s mix of pop and folk and some songs on her other albums. That said, if she wrote her own lyrics, she needed help. The lyrics on some of her biggest hits really sounded juvenile and simplistic (I.e. Shit on the Radio, etc.). But she was definitely one of the biggest pop acts at the time.

I loved All Good Things too. It’s sad that she’s let herself and her career go. Maybe she felt under too much pressure to come back and live up to the loose record and her body then.

She's actually really sweet in person.

People forget that the album between her debut and Loose--Folklore--was a huge bomb. Loose was her attempt to stay relevant. It's actually really impressive that 6 years after her debut, she managed to have huge success with that bomb in the middle. But the reason Loose was so popular is no doubt Timbaland, everything he touched turned to gold in the late 90s and 00s.

[quote] To me, Gwen's sound (and Timbaland's) was possibly the defining one of the mid 00s

This is correct.

I wonder if Nelly just took her money and ran? That type of world pop star is exhausting -- more exhausting than A-list actors -- and not for everybody

*world-famous pop star lifestyle^

R22 she did. After the success of Loose she released another folk style album that flopped and then Spanish albums. She ditched the mainstream pop

Her 2012 album which came after Loose and a foreign language album - The Spirit Indestructible - was another huge bomb and she was dropped by/left her label.

Her last album was The Ride in 2017. Decent but not great reviews, no hits, no tour, little promotion, no sales.

She has since deleted her social media.

[quote] She has since deleted her social media.

Good for her. She's probably enjoying a nice, quiet, comfortable lifestyle.

She tried a hipster-lite reinvention.

Didn’t work, though I like this song.

You can't go back and forth between sounds if you're a pop star, audiences find that confusing and just off-putting. It's like she wanted success but didn't know what she wanted more--to be authentic or to stay relevant.

She's also no longer 27 and probably got tired of trying to be 100 lbs. She got married, had a kid, etc. Not everybody wants to be Madonna.

Whatever do you mean, R29?

Say it Right is great pop.

R30, someone on another thread said it best re: Madonna's appearance these days -- she's looking more and more like a Peruvian mummy.

You have to admire her wanting to be authentic after having such major mainstream success. Not many artists would choose to just walk away from that. Nice to know she wasn’t a sellout.

As much as I loved Glee at the time, I’m so pleased Chris Colfer never got to sing I’m Like A Bird or Lea Michele take on Say It Right.

R6 - as it happens, Nelly collaborated with Esthero:

The life of an international pop diva is short one.

I was obsessed with this Timbaland collab including Nelly Furtado "Morning After Dark"

R13- THANK YOU-

Never was a fan of hers, not even REMOTELY.

But your post made me not read any others and move on.

She's alright to me, if what R13 said is true! I hope she is happy and lives a great life!

I love Maneater.

It looks like "Promiscuous Girl" and "Maneater" were about a trip around the Vegas buffets. Definitely not like a bird now.

It's been a gradual weight gain, r1's photo (from 2017) makes her look heavier than she is/was, the dress was a lovely colour but terrible for her shape

I remember seeing Madonna's Rebel Heart tour in Toronto in 2015. Each night Madonna would bring somebody up from the audience to be her "Unapologetic Bitch". In other cities, there were often celebrities picked. On this night, Madonna picked this somewhat fat, mannish looking woman. I was shocked to learn it was Nelly Furtado. For a moment I thought they were trans. I didn't recognize her.

R42, that's pretty funny. And random.

R42 really? Argh that’s so sad!

What happened is she got very fat.

Body cares.

I believe the correct question is why did Nelly Furtado's career go straight down the shitter?

She and Shawn Mendes have things in common: Canadian-Portuguese ancestry, they both sing and they both love cock.

Nelly Retardo

Is Shawn also going to blimp out in a few years like she did?

Unfortunately r42 is right. Here she is being Madge’s Unapologetic Bitch in 2015

Only if he stops getting fucked r50. Like Aretha, he’ll learn how to eat his feelings.

She's playing in Branson now

Branson is lit.

Lord, one of the comments in the video r51 posted was "omg nelly fatado???"

LOL

R51 WTH? Madonna still looks pretty good there. The awful plastic surgery must have been pretty recent.

I guess she finally ate all those men.

Yeah, r56. I saw the Rebel Heart tour up close and Madonna still looked good. She looked a little tight but her skin was still looking good.

I'm guessing when she turned 60 two years ago or when Madame X came out, she had a whole bunch of procedures done because she still looked good during Rebel Heart.

[Quote] Nice to know she wasn’t a sellout.

But "Loose" was her selling out.

maybe she was just showing off another, less dominant, side of herself

She got the balance between pop and folk right on her debut album. There after it was all folk or all Gwen Stefani-style trash.

Who should she work with to get back on top? Mark Ronson?

I last remember her at that summertime save the earth concert, in the hot pink dress. She was at her peak. I still like her, she’s got a cool vibe.

R1 she looks like fat Monica from Friends in flashbacks.

[quote] Gwen's sound (and Timbaland's) was possibly the defining one of the mid 00s.

Please! Gwen Stefani trying to transform herself from a ska/rock princess into a goddamned R&B chanteuse was probably the most inauthentic thing to come out of the post-9/11 era.

Gwen Stefani's debut was awesome. It wasn't R&B but a mix of many different styles.

She was never really attractive. Always had a mannish body and face

[quote] Gwen Stefani trying to transform herself from a ska/rock princess into a goddamned R&B chanteuse was probably the most inauthentic thing to come out of the post-9/11 era.

No Doubt had already been piddling around with various musical styles/genres (reggae, electronica) beyond ska before Gwen's solo debut, so it didn't seem too jarring by that point.

Jewel slutting it up for Intuition was the biggest WTF musical momenet for me in the 2000s.

[Quote] Jewel slutting it up for Intuition was the biggest WTF musical momenet for me in the 2000s.

I was confused by that MV too. She was going for satire and it just didn't work.

I remember Jewel on some talk show saying how you had to book slutty to sell records, which is why she did Intuition. I think you just have to make good music, something she failed to do after Pieces of You.

Nelly Furtado really defined a lot of my twenties, so I will always have a soft spot for her.

I loved Gwen's first album. Some really great songs and production. But The Sweet Escape sucked and took away any momentum she had built with the first album.

Jewel's Intuition just seemed desperate although it wasn't a bad song.

I can't believe that it's been so long since LoveAngelMusicBaby and Loose. Even Hard Candy is now 12 years old. Whoa, Nelly turns twenty this year. It's crazy how time flies.

"Baby Girl" should have been a single

She suffered from Laura Branigan syndrome.

In other words, she was just another female singer in a crowded field with nothing to particularly distinguish her from all the competition.

She came, she conquered, she faded.

Who cares? Not everybody is meant to be a lasting superstar.

[quote]Who should she work with to get back on top? Mark Ronson?

Weight Watchers.

This thread really could have been a Shitter thread.

Few deserve that question but her career really did go down the shitter.

I like her, but not all of her work. R27 and 28 are right.

I personally love FOLKLORE but knew it would not be a hit. She is a very nice, authentic and grounded person. She lives near Drake so I think she's got plenty of cash. She chose to follow her muse instead of staying commercial. Doing a Spanish language album after "Loose" was clearly not a commercial choice. She did an album after that which I purchased that I couldn't even listen to.

A few years back, between records, trying to figure out what she wanted to do next, she worked in a friend's record shop just to do something normal and be around music and people that enjoyed music. I thought that was really cool.

I much more admire someone following their muse and not afraid of getting curves than trying to appeal to teenagers, fucking a teenager, buying children and making a fool of herself on social media.

R76 I also appreciate that she seems more grounded overall. She had made some mistakes at times (and played a $1 million personal concert for Libyan leader Gaddafi at some point back when a lot of stars were doing it for cash) but seemed to be one of the few who could stay humble and normal. The one exception is that she did the “hint that I’m bisexual but then take it back right away” thing in the aughts that so many pop stars/female celebrities were doing. Thought that was annoying and I wish she could’ve just owned her bisexuality fully or not said anything at all.

Nelly Frittata

Nelly Frittata

Unfortunate name and voice.

[Quote] Doing a Spanish language album after "Loose" was clearly not a commercial choice.

It probably would be now, with artists like J Balvin, Rosalia, Bad Bunny and Maluma crossing over.

I think that Nelly is pretty. She has a bottom heavy physique though...huge legs and butt.

I enjoy All Good things, fantastic pop song. I really believe that Furtado simply didn't have the maniacal Type A drive that it took to stay in the spotlight 24/7. Not everyone is Type A and that's a good thing. Try spending some time in a place where 90 percent of the populace is Type A, like Washington DC. It's soul killing.

R53 It was a pro-Trump rally of 10,000. No masks, no social distancing.