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Whoa, Nelly!

by Nelly Furtado

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3,879
2000's

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524
2000

of 38,671

41

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Overall Rating: 2.9815 Whoa, Nelly! is ranked overall as 2.9815 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 3.0575 Whoa, Nelly! has an avg. critic score of 3.0575 out of 4 stars

Whoa, Nelly! Album Reviews

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Entertainment Weekly

One of the year's most consistently pleasurable debuts. ...more

Yahoo! Music

Wouldn't life be great if you could morph all your favourite musicians into one gorgeous star of musical greatness. Imagine, no more disappointments, just pure untainted brilliance time and time again. ...more

All Music Guide

From that first play, it's evident that Furtado is indeed an audacious songwriter, not at all hesitant to bare her emotions, tackle winding melodies, and bend boundaries to the point that much of the record sounds like folk-pop tinged with bossa nova and backed by a production designed for TLC. ...more

All Music Guide

Nelly Furtado'sWhoa, Nelly!is one of those albums that's designed to be a surprising, precocious debut -- the kind of record that's meant to make a listener exclaim, well, "whoa nelly" upon the first spin. ...more

Rolling Stone

Whoa, Nelly! is spastic like high-impact hip-hop, melodically durable like big-time pop and soulfully, intelligently, sensuously international. ...more

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Slant Magazine

Iwas introduced to Nelly Furtado's music twice. The first time came in the form of a song on the soundtrack to the Claire Danes/Kate Beckinsale prison dramaBrokedown Palacein 1999. The compilation featured an early mix of "Party," then titled...read the complete review at Slant Magazine

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Dot Music

Okay, so it suffers from repetition in places and the last pair of songs are arguably disposable, but this collection shines and sparkles as an impressive debut....read the complete review at Dot Music

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New Musical Express

Allowing bonus points for successfully merging personal lyrics and shuffling beats without once evoking lazy trip-hop, she still too often confuses blandness for adult sophistication....read the complete review at New Musical Express

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The A.V. Club

As the music world gets smaller, the typically evocative word "cosmopolitan" loses some of its exotic connotations. After all, much contemporary music can be categorized as some sort of hybrid, and though some stylistic combinations sound more...read the complete review at The A.V. Club

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