Only 400 show up to Nelly Furtado's concert in Vancouver
Only 400 show up to Nelly's concert in VANCOUVER, one of the largest cities in Canada
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Whoa, what happened Nelly? That was the question that hung in the air at the Commodore Ballroom Wednesday evening, when Victoria-bred songstress Nelly Furtado made her long-awaited return to Vancouver, five years after her last trek through the city.
Hard to believe that Furtado would be playing to a handful of fans (were there even 500 in attendance?) compared to the crowds she sang for in 2007, the year she swept the Juno Awards ceremony she was hosting in Saskatoon in the spring thanks to her Timbaland-produced album Loose, on the cusp of performing at Wembley stadium for the Concert for Diana that July.
What should have been a triumphant comeback at the Orpheum Theatre, where Wednesday’s concert was originally scheduled, later moved to a smaller venue, turned into bit of a bummer.
Not that Furtado is any less of a singer these days, and she showed she is as skilled as ever Wednesday evening, but her latest album The Spirit Indestructible isn’t nearly a chart-buster like Loose or breakout album Whoa, Nelly!, the album that gave us I'm Like A Bird. (The Spirit Indestructible even failed to break the Top Ten in Canada when it was released in September last year.)
In spite of a room far from bursting with electricity, Furtado opened on an uplifting, hopeful note with the banging title track from her latest album.
Her stage banter remains, even after all these years, almost superfluous, Furtado handing out snoozers like, “Thank you for coming to the show tonight” with as little energy as possible. One would have thought that, on home turf at least, Furtado would have tried to give fans a little more than flat niceties.
However, looking around a room filled with aging fans and a half-empty dance floor, you couldn’t help but wonder if Furtado’s better years as a headlining performer and a multi-platinum seller were already behind her.
“Why do all things come to an end?” she sang on All Good Things. Is it too early to ask?
The rest of the concert was laborious, Furtado missing her cue on Highlight and forcing a re-start. The song also featured a “La la la la” sing-along that definitely did not need cardboard cue cards. Tacky.
Which isn’t to say Furtado’s future lies solely on the sidelines or behind the scenes, but if she is going to make it back up that hill she once was the queen of, she’s going to need a game-changing plan.
I love her, I would have gone, and I'm subscribed to her on FB and am generally aware of what's going on with her....massive fail by her team because as these numbers show every gay in his early 20s she could get counted.
I blame the fact tickets were around $75 dollars each. She needs to suck it up, lower the price, and realize people don't view her as a "legendary" Canadian act like she thinks she is.
Poor nelly
She's such an incredible songwriter.
