lol, I see. :) I honestly don't remember madonna rapping though :huh: I guess I will have to give the album another listen sometime.

It's not a problem it's a common misconception. :P Listen to the single American Life... rapping. ;)

It's not a problem it's a common misconception. :P Listen to the single American Life... rapping. ;)

 

Hardly Chuck D, Run DMC or Ice Cube though is it....? It aint even as pronounced as the rap bit in Blondie's "Rapture", so to call it a 'rap' album is a bit of a misnomer really. "American Life" didnt sell so well because dumb Yanks saw it as an attack on the good ole US of A, Brits didn't buy it because she lacked the courage of conviction when she withdrew the video for "American Life" because of the Gulf War...

 

But, ultimately, it wasnt much cop as an album either....

 

Nelly Furtado did not "sell out" with the Loose album.

 

First of all, she has always been influenced by hip/hop and R&B since she began recording for DJ's and producers in Toronto in the early 90's. She performed in a trip-hop duo in her early days before Whoa Nelly. By the way, that album was also influenced by similar genres. She experimented with R&B production in the song "Well, Well" and she rapped with Missy Elliot in the "Getcha Freak On" remix on the Tomb Raider soundtrack. She got to know Timbaland long before recording Loose.

 

And anyway you can't listen to Promiscuous and assume the entire album is similar because it's not. It's not a strictly hip/hop album by any means and experiments, as I said before, with many difference styles. What about Maneater? It doesn't sound like a "sell out" song in the LEAST bit. It's totally unqiue and arguably not even a hip/hop song.

 

If Nelly Furtado had no hip/hop roots or talent and had just recorded a hip/hop album to be popular, Loose would have been a disaster.