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Whoa, Nelly! - Nelly Furtado
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79 out of 100

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9.0 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 33 Ratings

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  • Summary: The debut album from Canadian/Portugese singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado is an ecelctic mix of musical styles.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    100
    One of the year's most consistently pleasurable debuts.
  2. Wall of Sound
    88
    Though not much older than Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, Nelly Furtado is an artist whose music stands head and shoulders above the manufactured pop pap that rules the charts right now.
  3. New Musical Express (NME)
    60
    Allowing bonus points for successfully merging personal lyrics and shuffling beats without once evoking lazy trip-hop, she still too often confuses blandness for adult sophistication.

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  1. Positive: 21 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 22
  3. Negative: 1 out of 22
  1. Elly
    10
    One of the best albums of the new millennium. A few months after buying it I fought the special edition for almost thirty bucks and it was worth every penny. This is one of those rare albums that i keep listening to even though I've fad it for years and years. She's a super talented songwriter, and has a unique writing style which is stream-of-consciousness so she is always singing in unexpected ways and there a lot of over- lapping vocals . I love her voice which is so unique, but throughout the cd she plays around with her voice going from nasally (which instead of making her sound like an inexperienced singer whose voice has not yet matured, sounds playful) to using her head voice quite expertly ( #&!* On The Radio) and singing those bigger notes (Hey Man!,) and even rapping or flowing (I will make You Cry, Legend, Trynna Find A Way) and she manages to sound like completely different when she harmonizes and sings the backup vocals. I love how she mixes musical genres and makes it work without sounding like it was too overdone. I recommend it if you like adventurous music, pop that is mixed with bossa nova, R&B, Trip-hop, samba, fado, folk, great lyrics. Get out there and get it! It's not too late!!… Expand
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  2. ZsoltB
    10
    It's such a creative and colourful album.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. BabyAngelMartinez
    1
    I only like one song, that's why I gave it a 1.
    • 0 of 1 users said yes

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