Folklore [ECD] - Nelly Furtado

Nelly's second album is surely the one where her music got the most mature moments. After her worldwide success "Whoa Nelly", with "I'm like a bird", her first single, playing all over the world, she rapidly reached the star system and faced a brand new life.

And "Folklore" is a brilliant response to that premature entrance in a business eager of pretty, nice moving girls, all the time. The response ...
...and most recent album, "Loose" giving her roots away for extra air time in MTV and other pop TV networks (and consequently extra sales!).

In "Folklore", she doesn't need catching beats to stick you to her chords and lyrics. She doesn't need to wear short clothes and sexy moves to make her music sounds good. In this record she doesn't seem to care much about the industry.
Here, all that matters is the well ... more

Nelly's second album is surely the one where her music got the most mature moments. After her worldwide success "Whoa Nelly", with "I'm like a bird", her first single, playing all over the world, she rapidly reached the star system and faced a brand new life.

And "Folklore" is a brilliant response to that premature entrance in a business eager of pretty, nice moving girls, all the time. The response that she was not able to maintain in her 3rd and most recent album, "Loose" giving her roots away for extra air time in MTV and other pop TV networks (and consequently extra sales!).

In "Folklore", she doesn't need catching beats to stick you to her chords and lyrics. She doesn't need to wear short clothes and sexy moves to make her music sounds good. In this record she doesn't seem to care much about the industry.
Here, all that matters is the well constructed music and her stories with some amazing pearls that you won't stop listening.

In this record she mixes the stories of her Portuguese family heritage, with those of her urban life in Canada.

"Powerless" was the first single and is a pretty good song, but far from the best in this album.

"Fresh of the boat" is a brilliant music about the way she saw the fishing boats at Azores islands bringing the fish to the land, with an amazing mix of different music styles, from the most traditional to the latest pop.

"Força" was the original song for Euro2004 in Portugal and is surely known everywhere.

"Try" and "Childhood Dreams" are both great songs, in her pop melancholic way.

"Saturdays", my favourite song is Nelly and her guitar with the great collaboration of Jarvis Church voice in the back vocals.

"Explode" maybe one of the best songs in her career.

"Island of wonder" is an interesting collaboration with the Brazilian super star singer Caetano Veloso, a song with a tropical special kind of taste.

Tracklisting:

1- One-Trick Pony (4:47)
2- Powerless (Say What You Want) (3:53)
3- Explode (3:45)
4- Try (4:40)
5- Fresh off the Boat (3:16)
6- Força (3:40)
7- Grass Is Green (3:51)
8- Picture Perfect (5:16)
9- Saturdays (2:05)
10- Build You Up (4:59)
11- Island of Wonder (3:49)
12- Childhood Dreams(6:35)

This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.

Enjoy!
 

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