Nelly Furtado is back Looking back at one of pop's forgotten divas, what she did and what we think she will do
Nelly Furtado is back. Do you remember her? The "Promiscuous" and "Broken Strings" singer has decided to revive her career by releasing new music, and her fans could not be happier about it. This is a groundbreaking event: she has not released an unreleased single since 2017. Biblical times, especially when you consider today.
To talk of a return to the stage is actually a misnomer. Although her biggest hits came out almost 20 years ago, radio stations have never stopped playing her and she has remained firmly in the mainstream imagination, especially among millennials. However, the Canadian singer has not performed on stage since 2017. That break is now coming to an end, and she'll be doing it with a bang. Namely, at the end of the summer, she will be performing at Portola, a music festival in San Francisco that takes place on 30 September and 1 October. She will be joined on stage by Major Lazer, Polo & Pan, Flying Lotus and many others on the first day. A line-up worthy of her new musical soul, which is to be under the sign of EDM, house and electronic music.
In short: 20 years of career, from trip hop to house to pop and with a Spanish-language interlude. Twenty years full of looks and leaps, but also full of pauses, doubts and well-deserved times of reflection. At 44, Nelly Furtado shows us that you can and must reinvent yourself and that a pop star's career does not end at 30 and does not need to be sustained with constant, pounding releases, because quality endures over time and is remembered anyway. Fortunately.
