nelly furtado is back

Nelly Furtado is back. do you miss her? The ‘Promiscuous’ and ‘Broken Strings’ singer decides to spice up her career by releasing new music, and fans couldn’t be happier. It’s a landmark: they haven’t released a single unreleased single since 2017. Biblical times, especially considering contemporary timelines.

In celebration of his return, we look back at his career. he achieved international success in 2000, with the album Whoa, Nelly! which included the singles “I’m Like a Bird” and “Turn Off the Light”. The album was immediately defined as innovative, mixing styles ranging from up-beat to sentimental, from trip hop to worldbeat, without losing effectiveness and making its interpreter different from all other singers in vogue. brought in Now, perhaps, we would call it indie or hipster.

His style, initially bucolic and delicate, changed abruptly in 2006, when the artist decided to move on and collaborate timbaland

, Those were the golden years of the producer, who would soon make it Rebranded by Justin Timberlake with FutureSex/LoveSoundstheir second post-NSYNC album. The album is loose, with pop and R&B operatic dance influences.is a runaway success, and the new Furtado earns a place on the Olympus of the pop girls she was lined up against at the start of her career, changing the genre forever.

Vibes of new single, titled “Eat Your Man” Looks like they’re giving more than a wink to the super sexy, glamorous and feminine Nelly from “Maneater.” A snippet of the single was already available on TikTok, where she launched it from her official profile. It’s a collaboration with Australian producer Dom Dole, and so Discovering a new genre for him, that of electronic music and house.

in an interview with fault log, recalled his meeting with the producer and his decision to switch genres once again. “Dom and I just started making music together, and it’s been a process of reconnecting and understanding the roots of what I do. I started connecting the dots, wondering why all these DJs were remixing my old songs, like Gimme Do and Say Right. I’ve realized that my voice sounds really great over beats, and it’s something I don’t have to run away from. Dom taught me to go back to the truth, to find soul in the music I love. In the world of EDM, people aren’t overly concerned with making pop hits. They’re just trying to capture a moment.”

It is really wrong to talk about return. Even though his biggest hits came out almost 20 years ago, the radio never stopped playing them, and she in particular has been very present in the common imagination for millennia. However, the Canadian singer has not been on stage since 2017. Now, that hiatus is coming to an end, and it will do it with a bang. at the end of the summer, in fact, he will perform at Portola, San Francisco Music Festival To be held on 30 September and 1 October. He was joined on stage by Major Lazer, Polo and Pan, Flying Lotus and many more on the first day. A line-up worthy of its new musical soul, promising EDM, House and Electronics.

In short: twenty years of career, From trip hop through house to pop and with a Spanish language bracket, Twenty years of glimpses and leaps into the void, but also a time worthy of pause, doubt, reflection. Nelly Furtado, at age 44, shows us that we can and should re-invent ourselves, and that a pop star’s career doesn’t end at age 30

And it doesn’t necessarily have to be maintained with constant and rapid releases, as quality is maintained over time and remembered anyway. fortunately.