Lifeless Furtado plays to lots of empty seats

[eyal]

after geffen's promtion ( maneater havnt sent to the radios, all good things-flop)thats not a big suprise..

What happens if you sell out, but no one's buying?
Portuguese-Canadian star Nelly Furtado found out the hard way Wednesday night when her first post-pop makeover tour drew an anemic crowd of about 3,000 to the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul.
Not that Furtado can't sell records. Her third album, "Loose," topped 2 million in sales thanks to its terrific string of highly commercial radio hits that transformed the previously quirky singer-songwriter into a sleek club queen. Those hot singles apparently weren't convincing enough, though, to open many wallets, despite decent ticket prices of $30 and $40.
In turn, Furtado delivered a likable - if only intermittently enjoyable - evening marred by numerous awkward moments and head-scratching artistic choices.
Compare her to Gwen Stefani, who played the X last week, and it gets worse. Furtado may be a talented, smart musician - which is somewhat of a rarity on the pop charts - but Stefani wants to be famous, and she's not afraid to work for it. After Furtado's show, it was difficult to discern just what, if anything, she wants from this whole pop-music game. The first problem was the choice of venue. This would've been the ideal gig for the Myth, where the audience could freely mingle and dance, and not be tethered to a seat where they were forced to concentrate on the slow moments. Or even a theater would've been more preferable, if only because the interpretive dance routines employed during songs like "Showtime" wouldn't have looked quite as silly.

And as great as the X can sound during a full- or even half-house show, all of those empty seats and dark corners of the arena ate up a lot of the sound and buzz generated from the stage.
And then there was Furtado herself. More often than not, she came across as timid and reserved, and never really tried too hard to sell her new dance diva pose. "Promiscuous," "Maneater" and "All Good Things (Come to an End)" are fun and sexy on the radio, but Furtado's lifeless delivery made them feel more like a chore live and in person.
She rarely seemed to be having fun during any of the upbeat numbers beyond a fizzy cover of Blondie's "Heart of Glass" and her bilingual soccer anthem "Forca," for which she donned a Minnesota Wild jersey. It was only during her ballads that Furtado really opened up, particularly on the aforementioned "Showtime," which she filled with a certain smoky elegance, and "Try," a single from her little-heard 2003 sophomore disc "Folklore." If Furtado's heart lies in torch songs, that's great. She's certainly got the voice for the genre. She just shouldn't try to fill a hockey arena while doing so

[Paper Tiger]

Well I dunno about you, but I've heard Maneater on the radio.

[eyal]

Originally Posted by Paper Tiger

Well I dunno about you, but I've heard Maneater on the radio.

the radios playin it even now (just a little )

but it never had a offical add date=flop 100%
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since the lable hasnt sent the song to the radio,they had only the album version..

the result :

#16 -usa
#6 -itunes
airplay chart- out of top 50 i think ( less then 20m aud..)

[Nelstar-4-ever]

all good things is not a flop :O

[adam85]

Well,I don't know about you,but I'm getting tired to read the same critics over and over...they have nothing else to say,they're so boring

[Nellyfan86]

All Good Things ain't a flop.Its doing good I heard it on the radio a few times and they've been playing alot on vh1.Not to mention AGT on the last vh1 top 20 countdown jumped from 17 to 4 and might be 1 tomorrow.The only channel I don't see All Good Things on is MTV.I don't know why MTV stopped playing it they used to play it alot and now they don't anymore.All Good Things is doing great so far.

[eyal]

yeah.. all good things ,right now,its a flop..(on usa only!!)

peak : #86 on the hot 100
without the radio support..

maybe it will start suddenly rise after the tour. . .

[JN>]

Very well written.
I understand what the article is tryin to say...
Indeed, Furtado often doesn't know which way she wants to take...

[Icescape]

That's a pointless article, I'm ok with criticism, but this has nothing constructive in it... besides Loose was one of the biggest selling albums of last years, so I doubt her label is gonna cry if the tour isn't massively succesful. So the writer is (half) wrong, selling out certainly resulted in people buying it for Nelly...

[PhantomPlanet47]

i somewhat agree with the writer. she's got the look and the sound but nelly really needs to put herself out there even more.. the same way gwen and beyonce do. and im not saying she has to sing the same music or be as slutty/flashy as them... but when they peform you get the sense that ya know theyre reaally performing. i dunno i think nelly still is trying to find which persona fits her best while still selling.