Nelly Furtado - The Spirit Indestructable

Another Nelly Furtado album usually means dance floor anthems a plenty and that is exactly what she supplies on The Spirit Indestructible. Most of the tracks use the same tempo with the same drum beat patterns and so you get a typical modern pop dance album that sounds the same as most of the other chicks in this genre. It's like the producers strip away as much character and originality from the artist so that the dumb kids we have been pushing through our no fail school system won't get confused by the differences and just continue to buy what they are told is good.

Most couldn't tell you if this was J-Lo, Selena Gomez or numerous others because the digital instrumentation with little real instrumentation sounds just like all the professionally written crap from the Disney kids and it seems like all the pop singers are drawing from one or two writers to make sure they have hit records like the pop tart generation of Britney and X-Tina. I mean listen to "Circles" and Nelly's voice is so processed and hidden with effects you can barely tell it is her. Then "Enemy" could be a Kelly Clarkson song as it sounds like something she might record hell it could be Lady GaGa as well who really knows.

In the end this is faceless with nothing but dumb stoned club kids in mind and of course the tweens who don't even understand what good music is yet will probably think it is this generations Led Zeppelin IV or something and that we are just old and don't get it. I unfortunately do get and I know it is a paper thin idea of what pop music is supposed to be. Too much production, too many effects, no originality, boring drum loops rehashed too many times and lack of credibility is what this is. Great for dance floors bad for music lovers.