CynicKill said:

She's working on new material, seriously this time.

She blames herself for her last album not doing well.

Something about driving her manager crazy because she treats her career more as a hobby than an actual career.

But to me her last album is her best. Or at least up there with her best.

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Nelly Furtado reckons her last album flopped because she treats music as a “hobby”

filed on January 14 2013 by Brad O'Mance

Nelly Furtado’s been asked why her last album flopped and basically it’s because music is just a “hobby”.

Having a chat with Gig City, the ‘Feliz Cumpleaños’ chanteuse was asked about the fact that ‘The Spirit Indestructible’ didn’t exactly set the charts alight, to which she replied:

“That’s the price you pay for being passionate about music and refusing to believe it’s your job all these years. It’s just still seeing it as a hobby. My poor manager. He’s suffered many grey hairs because of it. I’m just really hard headed and I just do what I want to do.”

“I’ve made my hobby into a career, but sometimes I still look at it as a hobby so I don’t always make the best quote unquote career choices,” she continued, probably in reference to ‘Big Hoops (Bigger The Better)’. “But I enjoy it every step of the way, which I think is the most important thing.”

Asked if she would think about taking it all a little more seriously in the future, she said: “I think I will become more stylistically unified in the future. I see more music that is sophisticated and mature and adult, and also more streamlined.”

Something like ‘Maneater’ would be nice.

http://www.popjustice.com...by/108303/

Seen last month at Toronto Film Festival:

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I am trying to figure out what she means, if "Big Hoops" was just tossed out there without a thought as to marketing or her audience? I thought it was a rather commercial effort.

I've loved her since the beginning, and that big hoops song was garbage.

alphastreet said:

I've loved her since the beginning, and that big hoops song was garbage.

I am just surprised she is taking the blame for it. It sounded EXACTLY like she WAS listening to her manager, yknow?

Cinny said:

alphastreet said:

I've loved her since the beginning, and that big hoops song was garbage.

I am just surprised she is taking the blame for it. It sounded EXACTLY like she WAS listening to her manager, yknow?

I'm glad she knows it was a terrible song

Hips don't lie.

I think references to "Maneater" and "Big Hoops" are that of the writer, not the artist.

And why is "Big Hoops" a mistake? I liked it better than "Maneater", which the writer thinks she should be making more of.

The only problem I can see with the song is that subject-wise it isn't concise enough.

What's wrong with it though?

Maybe people are listening to it through a crappy system.

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I think this reviewer summed it up best.

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But who cares about lesser tracks when Furtado and Jerkins, whose work feels as vital and of-the-moment as his work with Destiny's Child, Brandy and Jennifer Lopez earlier in his career, are behind the wheel? Few save maybe longtime Furtado collaborator Timbaland — his work with her on her 2006 album, "Loose," confirmed that the singer understood a good funk jam. He's nowhere to be found, even if the record's got his label Mosley's logo on it. His absence, in fact, was worrisome given their musical chemistry, but Jerkins and company do him one better.

At its best, as on the first single, "Big Hoops (Bigger the Better)," big rhythm envelops Furtado's voice, carrying her solid structures with flexed muscles down unpredictable paths. "Big Hoops" ends with a huge double-speed breakbeat, in fact, that nearly single-handedly reintroduces British drum & bass music into the 2012 lexicon after a decade of underground hibernation.

This innovation is everywhere. On "Something," she rides a hollow tom-tom beat and a rubbery bassline toward bliss that wouldn't sound out of place at hot weekly beat night the Low End Theory, one that climaxes with a 16-bar cameo from rapper Nas. "Baby I could give you something," she sings in the chorus in grand understatement. Ever confident of her allure both as a woman and an artist, Furtado on "The Spirit Indestructible" proves nearly untouchable.

— Randall Roberts

This is great news as Nellstarr is a very talented woman and I love her to pieces. But come on the Hoops single and CD were just not that good. Honestly she should have just stuck with Timba instead and she most likely would have had a hit on her hands again. However, she was very distracted in her music direction and output after Loose. Her best will always be Whoa Nelly!

But listen to "Loose" now.

It's an album with big hit singles but to me doesn't hold up.

Her career is known for its massive ups and downs though.

She seems to rotate between massive smash followed by massive flop.

CynicKill said:

But listen to "Loose" now.

It's an album with big hit singles but to me doesn't hold up.

Her career is known for its massive ups and downs though.

She seems to rotate between massive smash followed by massive flop.

True. The magic was there with Timbaland. I would have spent all that tour money to make another album with him again.

I say either rehook-up with Trak and field or go totally left. This guy is from Canada...

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Her first album was the best. I don't like anything since then. To each their own though.

Furtado needs Timbaland back if she wants a comeback. The last album was a disaster.

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Caution--curves ahead!

MichaelJackson5 said:

Furtado needs Timbaland back if she wants a comeback. The last album was a disaster.

I wish I could provide more listener loyalty to Nelly Furtado as a solo artist because I loved her first album with Track And Field, but my favorite collaborations were always her with Timbaland (or his protogee Danja) on the beats.

Is that Curly Fryz in this video? Maybe she should have guest rapped?

3rdeyedude said:

Is that Curly Fryz in this video? Maybe she should have guest rapped?

Why does she sound like M.I.A.?

Flip that around.

She predates M.I.A. by 5 years.

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Under-rated classics!

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Didnt she perform during VH1's Divas Tribute to Aretha?