Whatever happened to Nelly Furtado?

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It's so strange I was listening to "All Good Things Come to an End" on repeat a month ago after my breakup ! She was really cool !

yes she did awesome when she released this album she called "loose" during when I was in middle school 

& guess which artists suffered similar fates as her

ryan cabrera, red jumpsuit apparatus, clay aiken, taylor hicks, sisqo, & natasha bedingfield

& she also obviously suffered from competition with other artists getting more reviews

The Spirit Indestructible was such a solid record. Should've done better but it was too long after Loose

I know it might be a copyright issue, but this would have been better if we could hear the song as some of them I don't know (that's kind of the point?)

I think music wise Folklore was her best album, but you can't ignore singles from Loose, it's a whole era of pop music.

She was very popular here in Portugal, loads of #1 singles

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Mi Plan is an absolutely fantastic album. Her very best, and I am still eagerly awaiting her second Spanish record.

Feliz Cumpleaños is a beautifully heartbreaking song and in my opinion her best song.

All her work is magical, she’s an artist, a creator. The Ride is my favorite album, Flatline is amazing. I love all her work

I had no idea Loose went Diamond. 😮

Awwww she was part of my teenage years, I miss her!!

I think the success of ‘Loose’ is as much down to Timbaland as it was to Nelly herself. ‘The Timbaland sound’ was dominating the mid to late 00’s

Nelly is amazing and she proved she could do anything! She just didnt want to be a pop star anymore! Right decision! And BTW The Ride is a good album !

I love Nelly Furtado and enjoy all of her albums. She is working on her comeback right now

another artist which suffered this fate as her is cheyenne kimball

Looks like a comeback is upon us!

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I'm definitely the type of person who enjoys "Folklore" most of all her albums. I tend to love the more personal, odd, interesting albums of an artists' career more than the big hit records. I prefer an artist to follow their own muse as opposed to chasing trends which is tough to do in a giant corporate music machine.

She fell out with Timberland after she snubbed his invitation to attend his wedding. He stopped taking her calls or something along those lines

Have always adored Nelly Furtado. This story seems to have a happy ending. I like that. So, thank you. 😘

Nelly Furtardo was the first artist I truly connected with. Her eclectic blend of genres made her one of the most underrated pop chameleons. I remember getting the Loose album on my 8th birthday because my parents loved her too. I blasted the album in my dad's car as he got annoyed with Promiscuous and Maneater on the radio, but he loves Say It Right.

I should point out that Loose came under controversy with some critics stating her new sensual image was a tactic to drum up sales but that's not true. She's a true blue at heart who sticks by her principles (even turning down an opportunity to pose for Playboy FULLY CLOTHED worth $500K) and thinks of herself more bohemian style given her inital contract with DreamWorks Records included a clause that she could release a Spanish album independently if she wanted. That said album Mi Plan is chock full of hit songs.

Given how she was overwhelmed by the excessive fame from Loose, I respect the fact she went away from the public eye to raise her family and be a part of her community so she can breathe and enjoy her privacy.

With Nelly Furtado she has nothing left to prove to anyone. Just look at her body of work and accomplishments. Now I will not list all of them but there are some that I think are quite striking and unique.

- The only Canadian to ever win a Latin Grammy
- First Canadian to ever have a song that used as the theme song for the Euro Cup. Then in 2010 another Canadian pop artists ended up having their song be used as a theme song for a major football tournament, I mean the biggest one, the World Cup.

For me as a Canadian Chinese who is the child of a First Generation immigrant like Nelly; her song Powerless on Folklore speaks to an entire generation of Canadians who questions our cultural identity being children of both the Old World and the New World.

The one thing that we forget or we kind of don't want to talk about given how sensitive the topic is; is that we need to look at Nelly's roots. She is the child of working class Portuguese immigrants. Drawing from my limited experience and knowledge; what I have figured out is that these people tend to be much more socially conservative.

When I was in University I had a classmate in my history tutorial talk about how she still had discussions/arguments about going to University and moving on to building a white collar career on her own. The way that she described it was that amongst the people in her community seeking higher education was only done if the child in question showed tremendous academic aptitude. For boys if they don't have any plans about what they were going to do with themselves; they would just join their father in the construction industry. As for girls go find a good boy to marry and have a family. Also that sense of Familia was still very strong in that community. These are I suppose the typical horizons of this group of people at that time. I was hearing this back in 2003.

Now if we make an inference using what I have just described; think about this. Nelly's parents were fine with letting her going out and build a career in music. That is already something that is atypical. Then as Nelly got more successful and famous she had child and she tried taking her child with her on tour. But she said that she hated doing this and that it did not sit right with her. And I suspect that going out being a popstar as a single mother and hanging out with the rappers/other popstars and etc. who would have been on tour with her (who we now know thanks to the P.Diddy scandal) are all a bunch of Zesty freaks and pervs.) clashed too much with the cultural values she grew up with.

In light of all this she made some hard but fundamentally good decisions. She went out and continues to sing Spanish and Portuguese songs. She stayed out of the pop music game. She stayed out of the limelight and focused on raising her kids and that was that.

Nelly Furtado did not disappear; she chose to leave and focus on things that were more important to her: family, doing art that she wanted to do and not shame her Raza being being a Popstar Tart when she has already shown us that she is so much more than that as an artist. She left on her own terms and on a high note.