SAY IT RIGHT - NELLY FURTADO
What happened? Nelly Furtado’s “Maneater,” the best hip-pop anthem of the year — and fortifying follow-up to annoying No. 1 “Promiscuous,” as well as a chart-topper in Europe — was whisked out of the running on radio before its joyous tribal beats even had the chance to be heard. Suddenly Geffen is instead pushing “Say It Right,” a perfectly suitable track but hardly the stuff of urban legend. Again, Furtado proves the art of reinvention, with a Pussycat Dolls-inspired contempo jam, high on hooks and of-the-moment production. Well done, if in the most generic sense. “Say” is a great radio jam, but for Furtado’s two steps forward, this is three steps back in terms of artist singularity. Billboard
