Nelly Furtado - The Spirit Indestructible

by **Merci** » Fri May 11, 2012 12:18 am

pushed back? bye!

by **TiagoRodrigues** » Fri May 11, 2012 12:19 am

Wardo wrote:September 11th? Why this significant date?

it's not like the world stops every year on that day lol :lol:

by **snwbrder757** » Fri May 11, 2012 12:47 am

charly3 wrote:Pushing albums back just sends out the wrong message. Adele got number one album in America and didn't even have a single being played. I don't know how things work any longer

It wasn't getting much airplay, but her single was also a hit worldwide, and was top 3 on US iTunes.

by **Mikerocha** » Fri May 11, 2012 4:14 am

Why pushing back? Is she kidding us? The album was supposed to be out 2010, then 2011, then 2012 and now September? If she's confident in the material she doesn't need to push back.

by **RunDevilRun** » Fri May 11, 2012 4:56 am

I completly understand why they postponed it. Big Hoops failed. It isn't a single material.
She was under the radar for too long and doesn't have a big fan base, therefore she needs a massive hit to support the album. Just see what happened to her greatest hits album... I'm pretty sure that her label is scared of repeating the same failure.
If she had released TSI it would've made Bionic look like a big hit (no shade).

by **pcdm3** » Fri May 11, 2012 6:12 am

Yeah, the single is a big fat flop... she should release another single... a good one this time please.

by **MrRager** » Fri May 11, 2012 6:57 am

pcdm3 wrote:Yeah, the single is a big fat flop... she should release another single... a good one this time please.

I think it might reach top 10 in the UK and could be a slow Burner in other charts. Hopefully I'll be able to say "I Told You So" ;-)

by **MrRager** » Fri May 11, 2012 7:02 am

snwbrder757 wrote:
charly3 wrote:Pushing albums back just sends out the wrong message. Adele got number one album in America and didn't even have a single being played. I don't know how things work any longer
It wasn't getting much airplay, but her single was also a hit worldwide, and was top 3 on US iTunes.

I'm with Charly3! Too many Albums get delayed just because they don't have a hit Single! Record company's need to take risks and just release albums IMO. For the likes of Kelly Rowland and Nicole Scherzinger! I mean Lana Del Rey did well for being relatively unheard of!!! Having a hit single doesn't even mean a guaranteed album success anyways! Normally hit singles aren't even Album sellers. It's frustrating!

by **ThaInfo1** » Fri May 11, 2012 7:06 am

Where are the reciepts?

She better not have push this album back! :evil:

I've been waiting too long.

by **preyan** » Fri May 11, 2012 11:53 am

Garf69 wrote:
pcdm3 wrote:Yeah, the single is a big fat flop... she should release another single... a good one this time please.
I think it might reach top 10 in the UK and could be a slow Burner in other charts. Hopefully I'll be able to say "I Told You So"

The UK pays her gardener :wink:

The US pays for her mansion :wink:

Pcdm3, I agree with you babes! 8-)

by **Jesper** » Fri May 11, 2012 12:04 pm

Garf69 wrote:
snwbrder757 wrote:
charly3 wrote:Pushing albums back just sends out the wrong message. Adele got number one album in America and didn't even have a single being played. I don't know how things work any longer
It wasn't getting much airplay, but her single was also a hit worldwide, and was top 3 on US iTunes.
I'm with Charly3! Too many Albums get delayed just because they don't have a hit Single! Record company's need to take risks and just release albums IMO. For the likes of Kelly Rowland and Nicole Scherzinger! I mean Lana Del Rey did well for being relatively unheard of!!! Having a hit single doesn't even mean a guaranteed album success anyways! Normally hit singles aren't even Album sellers. It's frustrating!

this!

by **mattsky** » Fri May 11, 2012 3:30 pm

I've already been waiting for six years!! :roll:

by **jpguy** » Fri May 11, 2012 6:20 pm

It's tedious but I understand them to be honest.. it's so sad that after all these years she had to come back with a HUUUGE lead single, and BIG HOOPS is a great song... I like it, but it's nothing compared to Say it Right and Promiscuous... but it's also the fact that people just aren't into her no more after all these years.. no matter how big you were... specially if you don't really a fan base!!! But here's hoping they can get their act together... just look at what happened with Madona's MDNA... the lead single was a failure, the 2nd single was a bigger failure, they did NOT pushed back the album and still the sales are a disaster!!!... I hope the best for our Nellybird!

by **theArmy** » Fri May 11, 2012 7:55 pm

mattsky wrote:I've already been waiting for six years!!

why do ppl always forget Mi Plan? just cuz it's on Spanish, doesn't mean it wasn't her 4th album :-?

by **Jesper** » Fri May 11, 2012 8:55 pm

theArmy wrote:
mattsky wrote:I've already been waiting for six years!!
why do ppl always forget Mi Plan? just cuz it's on Spanish, doesn't mean it wasn't her 4th album

Because spanish albums are just like Holiday albums, live albums etc. albums where not everybody cares for. It's sad but true, but her spanish album pretty much put her off the major radars, which makes it for a lot of people that they waited 6 years.

by **NoAngel** » Fri May 11, 2012 9:13 pm

Jesper wrote:
theArmy wrote:
mattsky wrote:I've already been waiting for six years!!
why do ppl always forget Mi Plan? just cuz it's on Spanish, doesn't mean it wasn't her 4th album
Because spanish albums are just like Holiday albums, live albums etc. albums where not everybody cares for. It's sad but true, but her spanish album pretty much put her off the major radars, which makes it for a lot of people that they waited 6 years.

"Mi Plan" is AMAZING album and you can't blame it for her abscence. It was her desicion.

by **Jesper** » Sat May 12, 2012 6:26 am

NoAngel wrote:
Jesper wrote:
theArmy wrote:
mattsky wrote:I've already been waiting for six years!!
why do ppl always forget Mi Plan? just cuz it's on Spanish, doesn't mean it wasn't her 4th album
Because spanish albums are just like Holiday albums, live albums etc. albums where not everybody cares for. It's sad but true, but her spanish album pretty much put her off the major radars, which makes it for a lot of people that they waited 6 years.
"Mi Plan" is AMAZING album and you can't blame it for her abscence. It was her desicion.

I also enjoyed the album, I don't personally blame it for her abscence, but I can see why others do.

by **SOS7** » Sat May 12, 2012 12:20 pm

So hyped for this!

by **mattsky** » Sat May 12, 2012 1:49 pm

theArmy wrote:
mattsky wrote:I've already been waiting for six years!!
why do ppl always forget Mi Plan? just cuz it's on Spanish, doesn't mean it wasn't her 4th album

I love Mi Plan but I'm talking about this English language album. Spanish language records do not sell in the USA and in the UK so for a lot of people her last studio album was Loose.

by **Rebirth** » Sun May 13, 2012 2:48 pm

Who started this rumour about a push-back? It's not true at all, "Big Hoops" is out on May 18 in Germany and the album still on June 15....no more lies please. Thank you. :wink:

But to be honest:"Big Hoops" is about to become her biggest flop in Germany ever. And that ruins her chances to have a successful second single. This era is a mess already, a push back would help......though we waited for this since 2006. :-?

by **Merci** » Sun May 13, 2012 2:53 pm

Rebirth wrote:though we waited for this since 2006.

no we weren't! we were enjoying Loose back then

by **RaFanatic** » Sun May 13, 2012 10:15 pm

When I started this musical journey I wasn’t sure of where I would end up, as I had just finished touring my spanish album and was tentative about singing in english again.

I was seriously considering retiring from my career as a pop musician and pursuing other music-related and creative endeavours.

Slowly, but surely, I began to record again and eventually found a new freedom within my voice and an overwhelming sense of excitement about making pop music.

That is the excitement you hear on The Spirit Indestructible. Nostalgia is a huge theme. All my old memories suddenly became crystal clear to me, and I found myself re-visiting my past in a fresh and colourful way, on songs such as “Parking Lot” , produced by Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins, where I detail good times in my hometown, sort of like my own take on “Summer Of 69?”. On “Big Hoops”, my swagger-in-spades, rhyme-writing 14-year-old self finds liberation through hip-hop and r and b attending “music jams” in suburban Victoria. Ironically, Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins, the producer of this song,and seven others on my album, is responsible for creating a lot of my favourite songs from the 90?s as I eventually realised while examining the plaques his studio walls. When Rodney and I work together, I feel like a child in a playground, uninhibited and happy. We have a great time.”Waiting For The Night”, produced by Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins, is inspired by a diary I kept as a smitten sixteen-year-old on a summer vacation in exotic S. Miguel, Portugal, my parent’s birthplace.

In “High Life” , also produced by Jerkins, I sing about what happens after all the dreams come true; the crash and burn; the process of running from your hometown to seek “success”, and what happens when you obtain it.The song was partly inspired by a disarming moment I had during a show on the European leg of the Loose tour in 2007.

“Spirit Indestructible”, produced by Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins, is an ode to the spirit which resides in all of us and triumphs over anything. It is inspired by people I have met, and special moments in history that I have read about. Spirituality is one of the underlying themes on the album. On “Miracles”, produced by Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins, “Believers”, produced by Bob Rock, and “The Most Beautiful Thing”, featuring the angelic vocals of Sara Tavares, and produced by Salaam Remi, I sing about grace, joy, faith, commitment and ecstasy.

In “Circles”, produced by indie band Passion Pits’ lead singer , Mike Angelakos, and “Bucket List”,produced by Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins, I meditate on personal relationships and life goals.

On “Something”, I let my voice chill out and ride Salaam Remi’s effortlessly masterful beat and Nas’ classic hip-hop presence.

On the reggae track “Don’t Leave Me” I sing from the perspective of a woman at wit’s end with her love life, to the authentically produced sounds of Jamaica’s own “Di Genius”.

On “Enemy”, produced and arranged by Salaam Remi, I sing about the self-indulgence of self-sabotage, the artist’s lame but habitual escape.

On “Thoughts”, produced by myself and The Demolition Crew, I am joined by my new friends The Kenyan Boys Choir in both English and Swahili.

On the remix of “Thoughts”, my favourite electronic producer/dj, Tiesto, shows his mellow side, brewing the perfect laidback track.

On “Be Ok”, produced by John Shanks with additional programming by The Demolition Crew, Nelstar recording artist Dylan Murray lends his unforgettable voice in a charming, simple duet that only he could pen.

On “End Of The World”, producer Fraser T. Smith lends grace to a simple love song that Rick Nowels and I wrote together.

All of these songs have incredible meaning to me and were written in moments of intense personal growth.

Overall, I would describe this album as raw and honest- a friendly punch in the face.

These tracks combine hard beats with strong, dynamic, sometimes pretty vocals . It’s overall, quite a simple, at times juvenile album that was very liberating to create and gave me immense joy.

I hope you enjoy it too!

by **Play** » Sun May 13, 2012 10:24 pm

^The album sounds incredible on paper!

by **Merci** » Sun May 13, 2012 10:29 pm

I just know this going to be amazing!

by **TiagoRodrigues** » Sun May 13, 2012 10:32 pm

Sounds something like Nelly Furtado would do! 8-)

Bring it!