Jennifer lopez on the floor sounds like bollywood

'She'll work 30 days straight and never complain,' says her publicist, observing that few British artists would tolerate such a schedule. Relentlessly upbeat, Furtado embodies the maxim that nothing is impossible if you're willing to start work at 7am and shake hands with every assistant cameraman you meet. Given the right breaks, such as MTV and key radio support, can-do becomes has-done. What one needs to do, it seems, is to whisk up three-minute tunes from a variety of cross-cultural influences (Furtado uses African, Brazilian and Asian sounds as easily as she does the more familiar ones), then go out and sell them with north American can-do initiative. Well, you want to see what it's like.' Evidently, the pad passed muster - she signed with DreamWorks after turning down a ВЈ3m offer elsewhere.ДЇollowing the lead of her friend Missy Elliott, with whom she rapped on a remix of Elliott's big hit Get Ur Freak On, Furtado has mastered the post-Britney recipe for chart success. 'One magazine said he let me stay in his mansion,' she says with amusement. To find it all in one package, especially a female one (more kudos for the label in question) is rare enough for veteran executive David Geffen, president of DreamWorks records, to have personally pursued her signature. Her Toronto friends Gerald Eaton and Brian West co-produced and co-wrote part of her debut album, Whoa, Nelly! But in American biz-speak, Furtado is the very much the 'vision'.ДЇifteen years ago, it wouldn't have been so remarkable for a chart artist to have artistic control, but the making of pop records has become a division of labour, with the components (the song, producer and 'talent') purchased separately and brought together in a studio. This is so unusual in 2001 that it deserves to be repeated: Furtado does it herself. Furtado (who shares her birthday, December 2, with Spears, though she pretends to be unaware of it) represents a fresh start, a female pop singer who is not just photogenic but who - crucially - writes, performs and produces her own material.

A year of diminishing returns has seen the industry fall out of love with Britney Spears and her many clones. When she signed her record deal, aged 20, she mused that she aspired to be Gandhi, Mother Teresa and Mona Lisa 'all at the same time, to inspire people, but not in a cheap way'.Д®ven allowing for the fact that Next Big Things often turn out not to be, the music business has reason to welcome Furtado. So much hype, so little time - it has been less than a year since 22-year-old Furtado came out of Toronto with the hippy-dippy hit I'm Like a Bird, quickly attracting praise that would embarrass a less confident soul. To her manager, Nelly Furtado is 'the new Madonna', to her record label 'the female Beck', while her languid singing style has been likened to to that of fellow Canadian Joni Mitchell, and her Latino looks (inherited from Portuguese parents) to Jennifer Lopez.

Jennifer lopez on the floor sounds like bollywood