Nelly Furtado - Folklore
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Artist: Nelly FurtadoEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); German (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2003-11-25
Music Label: Dreamworks
Product features:
- FURTADO NELLY FOLKLORE
- One-Trick Pony
- Powerless (Say What You Want)
- Explode
- Try
- Fresh Off The Boat
- Forca
- The Grass Is Green
- Picture Perfect
- Saturdays
- Build You Up
- Island Of Wonder
- Childhood Dreams
Music reviews of Folklore
Music Review: Hands Down The BEST Album Of 2003
Rating: 5 Stars
In January 2001 I heard a song called "I'm Like A Bird" on the radio for the first time. I found out that it was by a new Canadian talent called Nelly Furtado. The song became a huge hit, and her debut album "Whoa, Nelly!" became one of Britain's top sellers in 2001. I bought that album and totally fell in love with Furtado. Her voice, her lyrics, her sound, her style, her melodies, Hell even the album artwork was exquisite! The album became my favourite of 2001, and one of my all-time favourites. So it was with the release of Nelly's second studio album, "Folklore" that I waited with baited breath. However, I need not have worried.
Folklore is an even more fabulous album than her debut, which sees Nelly bridging the gap and breaking the boundaries between different cultures and their musical styles. She hooks up with Track & Field once more, who she worked with on her masterpiece first album, but they've taken a different approach here. Gone is the record-scratching production of her debut, replaced by a much more serious, worldly and mature feel. Nelly's first album relied on its lyrics, beats and instrumental qualities. Folklore does more of the same, but bends the rules a little. It's hard to describe, but it's not hard to imagine Nelly and her production duo picking up any object from the studio floor and turning it into an instrument.
The album opens with the fantastic "One Trick Pony." Here Nelly declares that she is indeed no one trick pony, and that she will be around for a very long time. I have no doubt in this statement, especially when you have a wonderful orchestra build up to open the song, provided by the Kronos Quartet. The album's lead single, "Powerless (Say What You Want)," is easily Nelly's best single to date. It surpasses "Turn Off The Light" easily, and goes on to become one of 2003's best songs in a world of overproduced teeny-bopper junk. "Explode" could definitely be a single. The lyrics are deep with references to burns, rape, drinking and violence. Nelly sings of the 'teenage waste' which is followed by a phenomenal rap. It's catchy as heck. Nothing more to be said.
"Try" is the first ballad of the album. Nelly sings of people and their great expectations of her. All she can do is try as they just stand there, wanting more from her. The chorus is majestic, and reaches its pinnacle when Nelly wails, "And that's you, baby/This is me, baby/We are, we are/We are, we are!" "Fresh Off The Boat" could fit in perfectly on Nelly's debut. With a mixture of vocals and random sounds, the song has a hectic sound to it, with a fantastic clap-ending and some foreign warbling. "For?a" is like the centrepiece of the album. With its tropical and sunny feel, the song has a wonderful opening verse, followed by a swaying chorus that you can just jump up and down to, while thumping your fist in the air! The song peaks, falls, and carries on rising towards its fantastic ending.
"The Grass Is Green" is undeniably one of the best songs Nelly has ever recorded. The song opens with a deep and tranquil beat. Incredibly captivating and exotic, the bass is actually deeper than the vocals. It's so striking and deep as the ocean. It's these songs by Nelly that paint images of Canada in my mind. The mountains and the fields. Incredibly refreshing. "Picture Perfect" is one of the album's best songs, and a brilliant ballad where Nelly's vocals just rise and rise every second on the majestic chorus. The verses are so catchy, and the drums add that much needed rock-anthem feel to it. "Saturdays" is the shortest song on the album, and serves as more of an interlude in its acoustic style. In the context it's a fantastic song about Nelly's life before being a singer when she was a hotel cleaner. Jarvis Church helps her out, by repeating everything she sings in a high-pitched style.
"Build You Up" opens with the beat right next to the speaker, pumping out its violins. Nelly sings of the media and jealous people who build you up, but tear you down once you achieve fame. It's an emotionally-charged song, and it adds more dimensions to Nelly's already vast perspective on life. "Island Of Wonder" features Caetano Veloso as a guest on vocals. Nelly's voice is so passionate in this song, and the chirping/whispering as the song closes makes it even more surreal and multi-cultural. "Childhood Dreams" closes the album, and in awesome style. This song has done things to me that no other song has ever had the power to do. At just over six and a half minutes long, it's a moving masterpiece. An orchestra opens the song in a classical style, before the soft beat seeps in. After a minute, Nelly begins singing, "I can't believe you need me/I never thought I would be needed for anything," in such a beautiful voice. The lyrics are powerful and heartfelt. It almost makes me cry. A perfect ending to a second masterpiece album.
OVERALL GRADE: 10/10
Nelly Furtado has crafted another superb album here. Folklore is hands down my favourite album of 2003. Some people are hating this album, but I can't see why. It's a fantastic achievement, and I am sure that I will be listening to this for years to come. Nelly Furtado is already one of my all-time favourite female artists. She has so much talent that it's unbelievable. She writes some fantastic lyrics, produces some of the most creative beats, has some of the catchiest melodies, has a gorgeous voice, and is just drop-dead beautiful in the process! A true talent, and I'm sure she's going to be around for a very long time. I look forward to her third album. She could take 10 years for all I care. It would still be worth the wait.
Description of Folklore
Japanese edition of the followup to her blockbuster 2000 debut album 'Whoa, Nelly!'. Folklore features 14 tracks including two bonus tracks, 'Powerless (Say What You Want)' (alternative acoustic mix) & 'Try' (acoustic version), plus enhanced material. Universal. 2003.On her second album, Nelly Furtado takes a hard left turn. The colorful but incomplete fusion of her debut, Whoa, Nelly!, gives way on the tellingly titled Folklore to an approach that lets in some acoustic sounds that take the music in an entirely different, richer direction. At times sounding like a dead ringer for singer-writer Sam Phillips (whose work colors each episode of the TV series "Gilmore Girls"), Furtado aims for more rock-oriented ground without losing the Brazilian influences that are so much a part of her identity. Her voice and tunes are strong, and both words and music paint a young woman still very much in movement, change, flux. It?s an intriguing sound, and one that thoughtful listeners will cherish. --Rickey Wright
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