History Music / NellyFurtado

* ButNotTooBlack: "Powerless (Say What You Want)" opens with a criticism on how she was treated with this.

* SingingVoiceDissonance: Her speaking voice is pretty much your typical young woman's voice, not really very high or low, no major accent present. Her singing voice? Sharp, nasal, a bit shrill, and accent in full force. However, her softer singing moments aren't QUITE as jarring, but they're still a little surprising.
** Her second language is also shocking, given her English doesn't sound that Canadian, but her Portuguese is akin to a Lisbon native.

* NewSoundAlbum: ''Loose'' marked a radical change from her previous towards an R&B-crunk direction, with some people comparing her to Gwen Stefani. ''Mi Plan'' was a throwback to her folk-rock roots but really leaned more towards traditional Latin rock with some dance-pop thrown in for good measure. ''The Spirit Indestructible'' is more focused on world music.

-->--"Turn Off The Light"

-->"Turn Off The Light"

* BareYourMidriff: Does this in a few of her videos, going all the way back to "I'm Like a Bird". Both covers for "Whoa, Nelly!" feature this, as does the PAL cover of "Loose".

* {{Corpsing}}: Featured in both "Saturdays" and the chatter preceding "Big Hoops (The Bigger The Better)" (as it tries to incorporate the whole conversation that happened once the song was shown to her manager, leading Nelly to laugh).

* AmbiguouslyBi: In a June 2006 interview with Genre magazine, when asked if she had "ever felt an attraction to women", Furtado replied, "Absolutely. Women are beautiful and sexy".Some fans considered this an announcement of bisexuality but, in August 2006, she stated that she was "straight, but very open-minded".

* GoldDigger The title character of "Maneater".

Nelly Kim Furtado (born December 2, 1978 in Victoria, British Columbia) is a Portuguese-Canadian recording artist, songwriter, record producer and actress. Her folk-pop debut album, ''Whoa Nelly!'' spawned hits such as "I'm Like a Bird", "Turn Off the Light" and "Shit on the Radio (Remember the Days)". Her second album based on the folk-pop template, ''Folklore'', [[SophomoreSlump didn't do as well]], sparking a change of direction musically.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Her feature on "Give It To Me" directed towards record producer Scott Storch.

* RiddleForTheAges: The subject matter of "Say it Right". [[ShrugOfGod Even Furtado doesn't know...]]

Nelly Kim Furtado (born December 2, 1978) is a Portuguese-Canadian recording artist, songwriter, record producer and actress. Her folk-pop debut album, ''Whoa Nelly!'' spawned hits such as "I'm Like a Bird", "Turn Off the Light" and "Shit on the Radio (Remember the Days)". Her second album based on the folk-pop template, ''Folklore'', [[SophomoreSlump didn't do as well]], sparking a change of direction musically.

* GenreThrowback: In ''The Spirit Undestructible'' she tries to go back to rap and R&B of TheNineties, specially as Rodney Jerkins is one of the producers.

* GoldDigger / HelloNurse: The title character of "Maneater".

* InnocentInnuendo: "Big Hoops (The Bigger the Better)" has the phrase "the bigger the better" proeminently... but as the title shows, it refers to earrings.

* NewSoundAlbum: ''Loose'' marked a radical change from her previous towards an R&B-crunk direction, with some people comparing her to Gwen Stefani. ''Mi Plan'' was a throwback to her folk-rock roots but really leant more towards traditional Latin rock with some dance-pop thrown in for good measure. ''The Spirit Indestructible'' is more focused on world music.