Released in time for the holiday season of 2007,
Loose: The Concert
is just what the billing describes: a package that documents
Nelly Furtado
's tour supporting her hit 2006 album
Loose
.The set contains 11 highlights from her thoroughly professional and crowd-pleasing show, notable only for how high-pitched and high-strung
Furtado
sounds on
"Promiscuous"
here (she sounds unintentionally like a female
Ad-Rock
). Apart from that, there's not much of a surprise here, which may indeed satisfy fans who just want a souvenir of the tour, nothing more, nothing less. Regrettably, her cover of
Gnarls Barkley
's
"Crazy"
-- the only other song from 2006 as inescapable as
Nelly
's own
-- is one of the tunes available only on the DVD that was simultaneously released, and it would have been a nice way to liven up the CD. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine