Get Loose with Nelly Furtado

The only thing that doesn’t change in life is change. Now and then people make changes to make everything better than before. So does Nelly Furtado, a singer who become popular with “I’m Like a Bird� several years ago. Nelly in Loose, her album, is different from Nelly on her previous albums.

“You never know until you try.� Nelly thorughly believes in this quatation. That’s why for loose, her new album, she tried loads of new things. She tried writing rhymes and rapping, collaborating in a duet with her new producer, Timbaland - who has also produced albums for Missy Elliot, Justin Timberlake, and Aaliyah, getting a sunburn, and creating a kind of music that’s more about the body than the mind.

Although hip-hop and R&B are two kinds of music she used to listen to when she was growing up, she hasn’t got the courage to go into those types of music herself. The “new� Nelly was born while she was working with her MC friend, Jellystone, writing rhymes, dissecting them, and trying different flows over beats. It became the seed of Loose. Loose is a very youthful-sounding albums. On this album Nelly tells us how to let go in many ways. Just listen to song like “Promiscuous,� in which she collaborates with attitude, a rapper from Alabama. According to Nelly, working on this track was extremely liberating because it allowed her to experiment with interpreting a ceratin character.

Yes, Nelly now is different from the old Nelly we’ve known before. While on her previous album, Whoa. Nelly! and Folklore, Nelly “just� showed us her natural side, on her latest one she shows us that she has other charms ith which to entertain people music-wise. Ever wondered what has induced Nelly, a mother of a three-year-old daughter, to change? Well, it was her daughter! Motherhood has inspired Nelly to be more creative and not be afraid to try new things. Spending the whole day with her daughter and going to the studio at night, Nelly says ; “that daughter has given her tons of energy to do all of this�