Album Review: Loose - Nelly Furtado
Amir Kattach Overall Rating:8.9/10 Amir’s top 3 tracks: All Good Things (Come To An End) Say It Right No Hay Igual Released on the 7th of June 2006, Canadian singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado presented her third studio album, “Loose”, incorporating a mixture of pop and R&B, sprinkled with some latin influences. Loose brought some of the most well-known hit singles of the 2000s which are still enjoyed to this day, such as “Maneater”, “Say It Right”, and “Promiscuous”, with Promiscuous approaching 2 billion streams on Spotify. However, most of the album presented rather low streaming numbers, with tracks such as “Afraid” and “Glow” hovering at around 5 million streams as of 2025. The media’s initial reception of Furtado’s album was mixed, as Nelly was scrutinized for her public image at the time of the release of “Loose”, with reporters calling her new “sexualized” image as “manufactured” and “unoriginal”, comparing her to the likes of The Pussycat Dolls and Christina Aguilera. As a fu...
