A Canadian-Portugese pop singer, who has been around for a few years. She had success with her first album, "Whoa, Nelly!" and then disappeared for a while after her second album, "Folklore" was released. She made a big comeback in 2006 with her third album, "Loose." The songs on this album are very different (lyric-wise) in my opinion. I prefer her older music.

The safeguarding of Earth and other worlds from biological cross-contamination (i.e. billionaires with too much time on their hands).

Also known as “planetary protection.” Planetary protection / quarantine “reflects both the unknown nature of the space environment and the desire of the scientific community to preserve the pristine nature of celestial bodies until they can be studied in detail.”

There are two types of interplanetary contamination. Forward contamination is the transfer of viable organisms from Earth to another celestial body. Back contamination is the transfer of extraterrestrial organisms, if such exist, back to the Earth's biosphere.

She is so rad, dude. She is original and made a great comeback this year. What now!?HOLLAAAAAAA!

little hottie, whos got the most original sound to her!
Go nelly nelly nelly furtado all in your stereo!!!! DONT DOUBT HER YO!

A portuguese-canadian singer who I would like to sleep with if I had a chance.
She's a piece of sexiness...even though she's half portuguese, I never heard her singing in Portuguese, I would love to.

Nelly Furtado used to be a somewhat talented hippie, who made more rock and acoustic music, about how lovely the world is or about how she wants to fly away like a bird.
Now she is a complete whore who sings the stuff people write for her.
Also, see sellout

A Canadian musical artist that started off, as many aspiring young female artists do, to make cheery and wholesome music that a wide audience will want to listen to. Then, she was seduced to the pop music world's dark side by DJ Jasper Gahunia, who left her knocked up and with a loss of identity.

In spite rumors of her getting engaged to another man in July 2007 to clean up her act, her reputation was forever tarnished by the incident as well as by her reduction to the performance of complete trash "music" featuring Timbaland.

Her song "Promiscuous" has since been parodied by numerous artists (such as Odd Austin and Every Ape) as "Ridiculous," which is what she became after performing that song.