Nelly Furtado: Loose
Will Hermes, Entertainment Weekly, 19 June 2006
POP STARS generally xerox other acts' looks and hooks — it's expedient, and it works. But Nelly Furtado's multiplatinum 2000 album, Whoa, Nelly! (which included the loosey-goosey soul-folk hit 'I'm Like a Bird'), felt like an original. The Canadian's debut was mass-market pop at its best: fluffy, giddy, uplifting, idiosyncratic.
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