Nelly Furtado, a proud Canadian, started her career as singer and songwriter, releasing an album in 2000 named "Whoa, Nelly!". You may remember this album for the fun-loving lyrics of "I am Like A Bird". Her videos showed her smiling, laughing, and running through a grass meadow. Sounds innocent enough, right? It was. And I don't know about anyone else, but I had a great deal of respect for someone like her making it as a musician without using her sexuality to sell albums. Unfortunately, this didn't last very long. By 2003, she shed her girl next door look, and gave into the pressure surrounding the music industry to "take it off". What happened to her!? She has recently recorded a NEW album...named "Loose"..(?). Song titles include: "Promiscuous" and "maneater". Interestingly enough, this image turn around happened right after she became a mother (hmm..). What I find especially strange about this sudden surge of sexuality is that she did this complete transformation in just a couple years. This was not the overly sexual teen image that matured into a more sophisticated ( and modest) look...it was the opposite. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this "new Nelly look" seems to be less of a change of attitude on her part, and more like something she was told to do because her albums weren't selling very well. This marketing strategy seemed to pay off, because she has since teamed up with rap/ pop artists Timbaland and Justin Timberlake. Good for her. But it just would have been refreshing to see, for ONCE, an artist who doesn't give into the over sexualized music industry. Music artists should not feel like the only way that they can sell more albums is to take off their clothes and sing unintelligent songs about their sex lives. Oh, promiscuous girl, you already know...I am so disappointed.
