Go buy the album on the 12th of June 2006!!! or 20th June 2006 if you live in the USA!!

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Listen to Nelly Furtado on Jo Whileys Live Lounge Interview

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Gnarls Barkley – Crazy (Nelly Furtado Cover)

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Nelly Furtado – Maneater (Acoustic)

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Nelly on Jo Whileys Live Lounge – Maneater (Acoustic) and Secret Cover

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“Maneater (Mastaus Remix)” – BITS Member Nacho Furtado

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“Maneater (GotdioN Remix)” – http://www.myspace.com/gotdionmusic

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If anyone has any more “Maneater” remixes please let us know, I will publish them for all to hear.

Listen to “Maneater Extended Mix”

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Loose is out 20th June 2006 in North America and 12th June 2006 the Rest of the World.

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Maneater
Right to the sternum! This one is a banger, with a lot of neat sonic extras and breakdowns that weren’t on the leaked version from a month or two back. No sign of Weezy F Baby however.

Promiscuous
The best update of “Shoop” we never even knew we wanted in the first place. Still a little weird that Timbo is calling himself “Thomas Crown” though. (The Pierce Brosnan remake is seven years old, duder!) But there is a welcome Steve Nash shout out.

Glow
Boom clap boom, synths, etc.

Showtime
Our secret favourite of the record. A bittersweet, Britpoppy ballad in 3/4 time that wouldn’t be out of place ending 120 Minutes in the mid 90s.

No Hay Igual
Does this song even have a proper chorus? It’s just one long intro. Which happens to really, really knock.

Te Busque featuring Juanes (English and Spanish versions)
Subtract Timbo, add Juanes, and get a fairly unremarkable track (or two, actually.) Nelly spits a Def Poetry Jam interlude though.

Say It Right
OK we need to step our pop reference game up a little for this one. Going to go with “Like A Prayer”-era Madonna, but there’s probably a random Cindi Lauper joint that would have been more appropriate.

Do It
That roller rink shit! Irrisistably hooky, with little Latin freestyle vocal cuts (“Yeah-yea-ye-yeah..”) interspersed throughout.

In God’s Hands
Another snoozy, Timbo-less ballad. Skip.

Wait For You
Hot damn, double-time R&B. With tabla!

All Good Things featuring Chris Martin
Don’t hold Chris Martin against it – he gets his Coldplay on and is still decent on this track, which is in the vein of No Doubt’s quieter moments. And if nothing else, it helps prove that the powers that be shouldn’t have hedged their bets with outside pop production on the other slow jams.

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Hello to all the fans!!!!!! Thank you for all your wonderful posts. The excitement and enthusiasm for “Loose” has been overwhelming. The album drops 20th June in North America, (one day before summer begins!), and 12th June outside of North America. I couldn’t be more excited and happy.

The band and I have been rehearsing, and we will be touring North America in July. We also will be playing a slew of festival dates in Europe in June…Watch out for live tv performances up until the release date. I just shot two videos. One for “Promiscuous” and one for “Maneater”. Hope you love it all. Can’t wait to see everybody on tour!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love, Nelly

Hello Nelly! From all at BITS and the BITS forum.

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A belly good show by Nelly

Nelly Furtado has ditched her poncho and pan-pipes style in favour of simply being sexy.

As my fantastic shot shows, Nelly’s opted for lush hair and tight clobber to launch her new single “Maneater”. And becaus I’m immensely important, I’ve had an early listen to four of her new Timbaland tracks.

I predict big things when she releases in June, I also applaud her change of style.

For you guys that haven’t heard “Maneater” yet you can listen to it here:

Listen to “Maneater”

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“Maneater” first play exclusive on Jo Whileys BBC Radio 1 morning show (3mb)

She also announced that the single will be released 5th June 2006 in the UK. Woohoo!! So that confirms that “Maneater” will be the single in the UK, which contradicts previous announcements.

Thanks to Notso_Hampson for spotting this.

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Nelly Furtado’s brand-new album “Loose” will hit stores worldwide on 20th June 2006. The record was initially slated for release in May but due to Nelly’s tour dates in Europe, Geffen decided to delay the release until after her concert commitments.

At first listen, “Loose” is an explosion of pure, raw energy. Continuing her “Força,” Nelly and Timbaland gather big beats and cheeky raps with lots of dance floor-ready production tricks.

Good examples of Nelly’s new vibe are the first singles “Promiscuous” (for the USA – a saucy, ghetto fabulous duet with Timbaland) and the irresistible club track “Maneater” (for the rest of the world).

The entire album sounds like a rough cut with studio chatting and Nelly’s giggling between tracks and even into the songs that creates a very informal (read: loose) atmosphere on the album.

“Loose” will surely be one of the most noteworthy pop releases of 2006 that will please her fans and pleasantly surprise the masses.

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RIP Nikki

shmannon description

The slow song sounds like a love song, very kind of tropical island feel, she sang the words “i look(ed) into your eyes…” and then they cut to another scene. It sounds like an awesome song, like the album’s gonna be a mix of the Maneater stuff and good ol’ acoustic Nelly, but hey she’s always full of surprises…

When talking about her album “The biggest point I want to make about the album is that it’s not for you to over think, just put it in your cd player, relax, and get lost in it”.

At the end they showed the promo pics made by max87 (her in the forest) on the backdrop once again.

They played the same clip from her performing at night in barbados with the hot red pants, and there were also scenes in the day time of her performing that acoustic song, like mmm said in the poofy dress and green summer topic, a big chunky beaded necklace, she looked very natural, very pretty, nothing like those promo pics

They said she will hit the European festival circuit this summer, with a North American Tour planned for the Autumn and that the album comes out 23rd May 20th June 2006, as stated already.

She also said the best thing she ever did was have a baby. She said it was the best thing for herself, her body, and her career.

She said she LOVES her new body, it’s more curvy, she’s healthy, and she said her butt is bigger, which is good cause she’s making hip hop music haha. Then they went to a shot of her on stage singing maneater, having fun and shaking her bootay.

This interview has made me VERY excited for the album personally, even though I was somewhat sceptical before. Personally, and obviously from me watching the show is not gonna make me right by any means, but I think alot of people will be pleasantly surprised, dont’ get your hopes too too down, from the sounds of that acoustic song, it sounded VERY Nelly, yet in a different place from Folklore (way more happy) and nothing like Maneater or PG.

I hope this lightens some people’s opinions, and may I say this for everyone’s sake, wait for the album to make a complete judgement over ‘selling out’ or what not. It was kind of iffy to some with the sounds of Maneater and PG, but the new sounds on the show were very refreshing to hear, and very relieving haha. I’m happy! Hopefully someone taped it! Thanks for reading.

mmm’s description (detailed on what Nelly was wearing)

Just a different take on the lyric: “Now our love’s floating out the window” or “Now all that’s floating out the window”, but I am really not sure, and the lyric posted earlier could very well be the one.

The acoustic guitar appeared to be the only instrument used to accompany Nelly’s wonderful voice, and the song sounds enchanting…I love it already!

If the second clip is another song, it seems slower than the first and I thought I heard “I/ looked at your face/ and I saw the old” (the slashes indicate caesura).

She had really natural makeup, and her hair looked very natural in its soft waves and loosely braided on when she performed these songs, in fact, her whole look was bohemian. The outfit in which she performed was a blouson tank top in medium-toned turquoise with a white stripe bordering the top and bottom, and pretty lace-up spaghetti straps in white on each side.

The skirt was white and flat at the top, and the bottom had pleats or a ruffle. A dark pink stripe ran horizontally through the bottom of the skirt. She wore a thick white bangle on her left wrist, and a necklace with large stones in pale-pink, pale-green and white.

When interviewed she wore an almost-lime green tank with thick straps and a scoop-neck, and wide jean cut-off shorts that came down to her knees. She had a thick silver chain necklace, and a necklace with light green beads. Her hair was a sunkissed-brown.

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However “Loose” Nellys upcoming album will be released 23rd May 2006 20th June 2006 you can get some banners for your site here post them everywhere you can to help promotion!

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“Promiscuous Girl” was tipped to be the 19th greatest pop song of 2006.

The Chart Of Truth: 2006′s Greatest Pop

Description of the chart by popjustice.com:

“This chart is true because it doesn’t let sales, airplay or ‘text voting’ get in the way of things. It’s just good songs.”

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There’s some pop music that’s absolutely mind-fryingly awful. We don’t need to tell you that – the likes of Westlife are the living embodiment of turgid pop. Nudging futher into 2006, however, and pop music is becoming ace again: finally turning in on itself, rebelling against the kind of shit-smearingly dire offal pumped out regularly into the charts and going ‘you know what? Screw you, Westlife. Just screw you.’ and finally realising it’s time to make pop good again. Kind of like the 80s but with better hair and phatter beats.

‘Maneater’ by Nelly Furtado might just change the whole face of pop music in 2006. Produced by hip-hop genius Timbaland, he takes the kind of Midas-like experimentation he sprinkles over the best Missy Elliot tracks and chucks positively bucketloads of it over ‘Maneater’.

Spooky tribal chants, MIA-esque pitter-patter beats, crunk basslines and an absolutely euphoric gang-chant chorus collide in a glorious technicolour mishmash: a heart-stoppingly brilliant reminder that, despite her patchy back catalogue, Furtado isn’t afraid to take risks. There’s elements of Gwen Stefani‘s no-nonsense slurry raps, Annie‘s icy cool and The Knife‘s glacial synth bloops, but never strays too far into copycat territory: it’s far too sophisticated for that. It’s brilliantly executed, tremendously exciting 21st century hip-pop music and if ‘Maneater’ becomes buried under a wealth of reality TV musical turds (we’re looking at you, Shayne Ward), at least you know Nelly’s put up one hell of a fight.

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This is not a hip hop banger at first, although being an easily danceable beat driven, electro production, but it is extremely innovative and fresh in spite of using pretty basic and simple melodies.

In a market which thrives on innovation, it seems that Nelly Furtado never fails to produce. Her style is creative and Maneater is only a taste for what’s to come off her third album “Loose”. This is all very different from what we are used to hearing from both artist and producer alike.

Rating: 5/5

Words By: John Busby

Source: http://www.ukmusic.com/Reviews/Pop/Nelly-Furtado-Maneater.html

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