August 2, 200915 yr Author The famous laugh <3 How cool that she mentions Shakira's single ^_^ Song with Sean Paul too? :o Maybe for his album? She keeps herself busy.
August 2, 200915 yr The famous laugh <3 How cool that she mentions Shakira's single ^_^ Song with Sean Paul too? :o Maybe for his album? She keeps herself busy. Hopefully it will be for his album, it's out in the US 18th of August so probably we will have to wait until then to know. They've both portuguese ascendancy, so if it happens it will be huge here.
August 11, 200915 yr Mi Plan (feat. Alex Cuba) ZM_wlCtxCSc This one is my favorite so far :wub: Nelly is great on collaboration with other artists and this one is no exception.
August 11, 200915 yr Author I like them both :D All not as upbeat and catchy as 'Manos Al Aire' though. I hope we have a couple of songs similar to that on the album.
August 11, 200915 yr Mi Plan (feat. Alex Cuba) ZM_wlCtxCSc This one is my favorite so far :wub: Nelly is great on collaboration with other artists and this one is no exception. If this gets translated to portuguese i can imagine her playing this in a portuguese Fados bar as an undiscovered artist lol
August 13, 200915 yr Author Nice cover :o Great to see the logo is still staying. I couldn't imagine her ever getting a new one. 'Mi Plan' has grew on me a lot the last couple of days too.
August 14, 200915 yr Track Listing: 1. "Manos al Aire" (Hands in the Air) 2. "Más" (More) 3. "Mi Plan" (Featuring Álex Cuba) (My Plan) 4. "Sueños" (Featuring Alejandro Fernández) (Dreams) 5. "Bajo Otra Luz" (Featuring Julieta Venegas & La Mala Rodríguez) (Under Another Light) 6. "Vacación" (Vacation) 7. "Suficiente Tiempo" (Sufficient Time) 8. "Fuerte" (Featuring Concha Buika) (Strong) 9. "Silencio" (Featuring Josh Groban) (Silence) 10. "Como Lluvia" (Featuring Juan Luis Guerra) (Like Rain) 11. "Feliz Cumpleaños" (Happy Birthday) Also apparently if you bought all the "Countdown To.." tracks then you can complete the album for less of the normal price and you get a secret track
August 16, 200915 yr Author ^ Yep ^_^ I wish I could buy them on UK iTunes :( Feliz Cumpleaños should be erm...interesting :lol: Here she is talking about Mi Plan (song) 9cGpOTSRj-A
August 30, 200915 yr SNIPPETS OF ALL "MI PLAN" SONGS !! http://www.amazon.de/Mi-Plan/dp/B002N9PFM4...92&sr=301-1
August 31, 200915 yr Hands In The Air http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/4121/nellyfurtadomiplan.jpg Nelly Furtado how the world has needed your grace. The great thing about her Spanish-only album is that in some way she can attest to what made her a superstar. The quirks, the worldliness, and the experimentation that made Whoa, Nelly! and Folklore the great albums they are. Loose was a great mesh of sounds, but as we know, the glam-Nelly wasn’t what brought her to fame. Although enjoyable, the previous album was just what she needed to stamp her as a long-lasting act. Now, with Mi Plan Nelly has gone to more acoustic and experimental sounds, in the way her first two albums were and just as successful as Loose everywhere but in the US. The album is made up of some heavy hitters. The songwriters and performers include: Josh Groban, Julieta Venegas, Juan Luis Guerra, Alejandro Fernández and Mala Rodríguez. Wait, Josh Groban with Nelly? Yep, you heard right. That song sounds interesting! Already having released two singles off the album through iTunes already (“Manos al Aire” and “Mi Plan”) Furtado is planning to release the album on September 11th this fall. Nelly Furtado and other artists to appear in Sims 3 World Adventures Following one of the most successful launches of a video game of all time with almost 4 million units sold, The Sims 3 continues to sell well for EA, and is on track to fill the big shoes of the earlier games in the series. As everyone has no doubt expected, The Sims 3 will be gaining a multitude of expansion packs. Only about two months after release of the main game, the first expansion has been revealed. Coming November 16th, the first (of many) PC/Mac expansion packs is going to be called World Adventures -- a new trailer was shown today for it, at Gamescom. EA has recruited some big name musicians to add some tunes to the new expansion, though the songs will all be in Simlish of course. Nelly Furtado (right) will be singing a rendition of a tune called "Manos el Aire", and she will be joined by fellow musicians Pixie Lott (above left), Stefanie Heinzmann, Matt & Kim, and Young Punx. “I was really excited when I heard EA wanted me to be involved with The Sims 3 World Adventures,” Nelly was quoted as saying. “I love languages, and it was so fun singing in Simlish.” In World Adventures, you'll be taking your Sims on some adventures outside of your home Sim-town.You'll be able to explore spots in Sim-versions of China, France and Egypt. If you stop in China, you might want to work on practicing your martial arts in Shang Simla. Or if deserts are more your thing, you can check out some tombs in Al Simhara -- as this new trailer shows below. If in France, perhaps you'll want to take in the famous cultural sites of Champs Les Sims. In addition to the new locations, there will be a couple of new Sims skills and personality traits to have some fun with as well. A portable version of The Sims 3 World Adventures will also be available for the iPhone and iPod touch in early 2010 from EA Mobile. http://www.neoseeker.com/news/11572-nelly-...rld-adventures/
September 4, 200915 yr http://i30.tinypic.com/hsov13.jpg The Josh Groban duet obviously very apparent but at the same time very unleaked. ;( Should be epic.
September 8, 200915 yr Sweeter in Spanish Canadian pop star Nelly Furtado charts a new career path with her first Spanish-language album. Nelly Furtado’s first Spanish-language album is a mixture of design and circumstance, as so many grand plans often are. There she was in the studio with her friend, guitarist James Bryan, attempting to help write the lyrics for a song titled My Plan. But nothing worked. She tried writing the lyrics in Portuguese, but that didn’t work either. And then, Alex Cuba – a Cuban-Canadian singer-songwriter whose album Furtado had recently heard and liked – stopped by the studio to say hello. Why not try the song in Spanish, he suggested. Then he had a go at the lyrics. “And I really liked it,” Furtado recalls. “So we started really organically writing songs – me, him and James.” My Plan evolved into Mi Plan, Furtado’s first full-length Spanish-language album, as a joint venture between Furtado’s own label, Nellstar, and Universal Music Latin America. Mi Plan will be released simultaneously in all of Universal’s 77 territories around the world and may be the most ambitious Spanish-language release by a mainstream star. While it’s common for Latin crossover artistes like Enrique Iglesias and Shakira to release albums in Spanish, these always have included at least one English version of a single for mainstream radio. Even Christina Aguilera’s Mi Reflejo, her 2000 Spanish-language album, consisted mainly of translations of English-language hits – and she has a Latin surname. For Portuguese-Canadian Furtado, who has recorded Spanish collaborations, recording solely in that language is a gutsy move. “To me, music is a language in itself,” Furtado says. “I know it sounds cliched, but that’s what my experience has been around the world. I think some people, no matter what, are not going to like it because it’s not the language they speak. But some of the people who listen to music in a different kind of way, they’ll like it.” Worldwide hits Given Furtado’s global success, however, a Spanish-language album may be a good bet. Mi Plan comes in the wake of Furtado’s 2006 album, Loose, which sold more than two million copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan, and more than 10 million copies worldwide, according to Universal. Such a sales performance is pretty hard to follow. Doing so in a non-native language has rarely been attempted. But while Furtado is treading unknown waters with a full Spanish-language release, she already has tested the Latin market with a handful of collaborations. Most notable among them is Tu Fotografia, which she recorded with Juanes for his 2002 album Un Dia Normal. The song peaked at No.1 on Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs chart in 2003 and also topped charts in several Latin American countries. Beyond Latin America, her star appeal is so big that the first single from the new album, Manos Al Aire, is already climbing the European radio charts. “It’s a very interesting project because it follows the philosophy we’ve been espousing for a while now: That increasingly, language is less of a barrier (in marketing music),” says Jesus Lopez, chairman of Universal Music Latin America/Iberian Peninsula, whose roster includes Iglesias and Juanes. “Fans follow their idols, independently of the language the artiste performs in.” Lopez cites French artiste Florent Pagny as an example. The singer-songwriter this year released an all-Spanish language album, C’est Comme Ca, which reached No.1 on France’s sales chart and is still in the top 10. Pagny had never recorded an entire album in Spanish, but he’s linked to the culture through his marriage to an Argentine woman. And Pagny doesn’t have Furtado’s global name, which has allowed for a worldwide release with high sales expectations. The biggest challenge in promoting a singer-songwriter who isn’t, strictly speaking, Latin is, according to Universal Music Latino president Walter Kolm, communicating the album’s authenticity. “We have to be very clear in conveying to the audience and the media that this album isn’t a bunch of songs translated to Spanish, but that it was thought, created and executed entirely in Spanish,” he says. Natural extension Furtado – whose Spanish fluency is about 50% to 60 % and who is married to Cuban-American producer Demacio “Demo” Castellon – didn’t choose capriciously to record in that language. Given her Portuguese fluency, Spanish was a natural extension, and she listened to Latin music in her teens. After recording Fotografia with Juanes, she reciprocated, inviting him to collaborate on the Loose album track Te Busque, which was recorded in Spanish and bilingual versions. She also recorded Slippery Sidewalks with experimental tango ensemble Bajofondo Tango Club. The song was included on the group’s 2008 album Mar Azul and later remixed in Spanish as Baldosas Mojadas. Furtado also collaborated with Calle 13 for a remix of No Hay Igual that was included in the international version of Loose and a remix of reggaeton duo Wisin & Yandel’s Sexy Movimiento. While neither of these tracks gained traction at US Latin radio, they did broaden Furtado’s Latin audience in other countries. Given the success of Te Busque in many Latin markets, her label, Interscope, began asking for other translated songs. Furtado turned in En Manos De Dios (a translation of In God’s Hands) and Todo Lo Bueno Tiene Un Final (a translation of All Good Things Come To An End). Both tracks were sent to radio, and Interscope pushed Furtado for a Spanish album to capitalise on the success. “I started to try, but I didn’t want to do it,” Furtado says. “I’m not the biggest fan of translations in general. So, basically, I put it on hold.” But along the way, Furtado also met Andres Recio, who formerly worked with Juanes’ management company. Recio, who now works with Furtado and is executive producer of Mi Plan, introduced her to one of his clients, producer Julio Reyes. Reyes, in turn, had worked with Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez. With Reyes, Furtado wrote Toma De Mi, her first full-fledged Spanish-language song. Reyes sent it to Lopez, who recorded it for the soundtrack to the 2007 film El Cantante and used the song for the film’s end credits. That changed Furtado’s perspective. “When I wrote the song with Julio, I had no idea anyone was going to like it,” Furtado says. “And then Jennifer liked it, and that gave me a little confidence and I said, ‘Good, I can express myself.’ ” On Oct 21, 2008, Furtado entered the studio with Cuba and Bryan and began writing for her new album. She eventually wrote 24 Spanish-language tracks with different co-writers and whittled the list to 12, among them collaborations with Josh Groban, Julieta Venegas, Alejandro Fernandez, Juan Luis Guerra and Spain’s Concha Buika and La Mala Rodriguez. The resulting album is full of whimsy, moving from dance to pop to folk, and harks back to Furtado’s 2000 debut album, Whoa, Nelly!, in its many textures and colours. Manos Al Aire is an uptempo dance track, but overall the album has an organic, more acoustic feel. Instead of releasing Mi Plan with Interscope, Furtado recorded the album under her own label, Nellstar, and struck a one-off joint venture deal with Universal Music Latin America. Furtado delivers all the creative aspects – including the album, videos and artwork – to Universal, which markets, promotes and distributes the album. (Furtado is still signed solely to Interscope for her English releases.) Furtado hasn’t discarded the possibility of recording an English-language version of one of her new Spanish-language songs. “If any of the songs is a big crossover hit, then maybe I’ll attempt it,” she says. “But I wouldn’t do it unless I go to the studio and it works. That’s why I did the Spanish album, so it could be its own, breathing thing.” – Reuters > Nelly Furtado’s Mi Plan is released by Universal Music Malaysia. http://www.star-ecentral.com/news/story.as...2&sec=music
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