Nelly Furtado Embraces Diversity on "Folklore"

This week, some members of the music press received a CD sampler of Nelly Furtado's new album "Folkore." The teaser includes snippets of four new Furtado songs, including "Fresh Off The Boat," "Explode" and the ballad "Try." Also featured is the new single "Powerless (Say What You Want)," which is currently storming up the iTunes charts.

Taken solely from the short sound fragments, "Folklore" seems to reveal a more mature Furtado with a musical production that combines her cheer, outright emotion and spirited crooning.

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    On her second album, Nelly Furtado takes a hard left turn. The colorful but incomplete fusion of her debut, Whoa, Nelly!, gives way on the tellingly titled Folklore to an approach that lets in some ...

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  • 1 - Eric Olsen

    Oct 22, 2003 at 8:18 am

    Thanks Arjan, very nice to have you back. Nelly has a really big butt, by the way.

  • 2 - JR

    Oct 22, 2003 at 12:35 pm

    "Nelly has a really big butt, by the way."

    Interesting, I guess that really is a Latin thing.

    Which means if current demographic trends continue, this country could suffer a shortage of seating area.

  • 3 - Eric Olsen

    Oct 22, 2003 at 12:37 pm

    I thought it was because she is Canadian

  • 4 - Seinfeld_666

    Apr 16, 2004 at 11:45 am

    Yeah she really have a great butt, beautiful by the way.
    shame theres no good pics of her butt

  • 5 - Eric Olsen

    Apr 16, 2004 at 1:41 pm

    Actually, I wasn't endorsing her butt, which is way too big for her squatty little body. No offense, Nelly.

  • 6 - Jfreak

    Dec 08, 2004 at 7:11 pm

    If she has read yall comments I,m sure that she smiled with her cute self

  • 7 - moron

    Jan 09, 2006 at 11:40 am

    eric, i'm sure you are NO prince charming. i wonder how big your ass/gut/ego/etc. is???

    fess up, [Deleted]

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