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...Presents Shock Value,” makes the most of those connections and thus features almost as many heavy-hitting collaborations as a Girl Talk album. Timbaland blew up a decade ago, producing tracks for Aaliyah and Missy Elliot, and has scored recent hits with Justin Timberlake and Nelly Furtado. “Shock Value” is a rushed attempt to capitalize on that success. As a rapper, Timbaland has most often recorded as a duo with Magoo, and his last solo album (“Tim’s Bio: Life From Da Bassment”) came...
...Pope's Colleges That Change Lives tour, a kind of low-key Lollapalooza for freethinking colleges that are looking for liberated students. Last year more than 600 people attended each of the sessions in Chicago, Houston, San Francisco and Washington. In a crowded Manhattan hotel ballroom, Maria Furtado, director of admissions at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., grabs the wireless microphone in front of a crowd of more than 500 parents, students and college counselors and happily shatters conventional wisdom. "Every spring and every fall, this is what you will see and hear in the media: 'No one gets...
Other studies say the number is closer to 70%. But whatever the exact figure, if you want to be one of them, Furtado says, "you have to be brave and bold and explore a school you haven't heard of before." That shouldn't be hard for this crowd. As a group, the kids are unorthodox, outspoken late bloomers. "They're very bright, but they didn't discover it until they were juniors or seniors in high school," says Goucher College president Sanford Ungar, who makes the point that those who find their way to a place like Goucher...
Hornby’s definition of pop is broad enough to include Bob Dylan as well as Nelly Furtado. He has little time for snobbishness, though in a piece previously published in The New Yorker he surveys the Billboard Top Ten albums with a mixture of bewilderment, distaste and humor...
...other poignantly humorous novels like About a Boy and How to Be Good, will read from his latest publication, Songbird, a collection of short essays about musicians. Songbird explores Hornby’s thoughts on a wide range of musicians, from Ani DiFranco to The Beatles to Nelly Furtado. Though different in format from his previous novels, Hornby continues his custom of literary music-loving, offering insights for music geeks and book lovers alike. 7 p.m. Free. Wordsworth Books, 30 Brattle St. (SS)MUSIC | The Good Word