Nelly Furtado: Loose

Into every year is born an album so plain, so boring, so uninventive, so uninfectious, it does not deserve to even be called "Pop."

Last year it was Madonna's 'Confession' album, this year, it is Nelly Furtado's Loose. I had high hopes going into this because she is talented, but the album ended up being a horrible Frankenstein monster of hip-hop, pop, and dance.

Besides the album as a whole, tunes to *AVOID* include Maneater, on the grounds that no one should have a song called that ever again; Hall & Oates perfected it. Promiscuous Girl fails musically, lyrically, and doubly so due to guest "singer" Timbaland. In God's Hands is a crappy pop tune that could possibly have been pulled of by guilty pleasure darling, Kelly Clarkson, but goes no where with Furtado. All Good Things sounds like it's the one tune that could have some real hope, but the implementation just destroys it.

In the End: Please. Don't even waste the bandwidth. Demand higher quality from artists who are so obviously talented, such as Ms. Furtado. This album is an insult to the music community.

On the Web: I Am Fuel, You Are Friends has a MUCH better version of All Good Things, with backing back Coldplay's Chris Martin. Also, Shoes Are For Work has Furtado's cover of the Gnarls Barkley Tune Crazy.

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