GET RID OF THE CRAP

My review of Nelly Furtado's "Folklore" at Amazon.com.

Being a big Nelly Furtado fan, I quickly hunted down a copy of this album as soon as it had been released. I popped my brand new copy in my car's CD player and thought that except for "Powerless" and "Fresh Off the Boat" Nelly F was way off the mark this time so the CD stayed in my collection for several months gathering dust.

It was only when I heard that "Força" had become a hit in Europe that I gave the album another chance then realized there was more to it. What really turned me off were just a couple of songs that are soooo bad they would keep any potential buyer from picking up the CD. I refer to the two duets, "Saturdays" and "Island of Wonder". I'm not kidding, these two songs are so horrible that Dreamworks should re-release this album without them, because when I burned a copy without these two, I realized that the other songs are quite a joy to listen to, and except for the slow ones, quite danceable too.

Dreamworks, get rid of the crap and re-release this one ASAP.

Three stars.