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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: "I'm Like a Bird", "Promiscuous", "Maneater", "Say It Right" and "All Good Things (Come To An End)".
* NightmareFuel: The music video for "ManEater" can be a little unsettling. It starts off with Nelly losing her dog Toby and she has to go looking for him in an dark, empty, red-lit underground alleyway only to find herself surrounded by several vampires. Then she starts dancing sexy...
* SignatureSong: "I'm Like a Bird", "Say It Right", "Maneater" or "Promiscuous".
* SophomoreSlump: ''Folklore'' wasn't commercially successful as her debut ''Whoa, Nelly!''. It's partly the reason why she changed her sound for ''Loose'', to the point that some fans felt that she became from an acclaimed folk-pop singer to being a pop-R&B "[[TheyChangedItNowItSucks commercial sell out]]".
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: How some fans felt about the HotterAndSexier ''Loose''.
* ToughActToFollow: Along with the SophomoreSlump of ''Folklore'', ''Loose'' turned out to be this. After something different in the Spanish album ''Mi Plan'' with some success, ''The Spirit Indestructible'' was nowhere near as acclaimed or commercially successful.
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