Cooling her heels while crafting a follow-up to her hot dance makeover Loose, Nelly Furtado released Mi Plan, her first full-length Spanish album, in the fall of 2009.
As it turns out, Mi Plan comes much closer to Furtado's previous music than Loose, but she's retained many lessons from her time with Timbaland, giving this a much stronger rhythmic foundation than her first two albums which this otherwise resembles in sound and structure.
Nelly still sounds vaguely like a modern hippie, fusing together cultures with a hazily spiritual undertow, something that works well on an album like this, which is pitched at a Latin audience but never feels like a niche throwaway by a superstar.
Instead, this is assured and cohesive, holding together better than her muddled sophomore effort Folklore but having a similar range, bouncing elegantly from barbed, alt rock guitars to electro synths to grand, gorgeous ballads.
In fact, it says quite a bit about Nelly Furtado's ambitions and skill when her Spanish detour winds up being arguably her strongest album yet.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Manos al AireJames Bryan, Alex Cuba, Nelly Furtado | Nelly Furtado | Play | 03:29 | 7 MB | 23 MB |
| 2 | MásNelly Furtado, Lester Mendez, Andrés Recio | Nelly Furtado | Play | 03:31 | 8 MB | 25 MB |
| 3 | Mi PlanJames Bryan, James Bryant, Alex Cuba, Nelly Furtado | Nelly Furtado | Play | 04:05 | 9 MB | 28 MB |
| 4 | SueñosJames Bryan, James Bryant, Alex Cuba, Nelly Furtado | Nelly Furtado | Play | 03:10 | 7 MB | 19 MB |
| 5 | Bajo Otra LuzMario Rodriguez, Julieta Venegas | Nelly Furtado | Play | 04:19 | 9 MB | 30 MB |
| 6 | VacaciónNelly Furtado, Lester Mendez, Julieta Venegas | Nelly Furtado | Play | 03:43 | 8 MB | 26 MB |
| 7 | Suficiente TiempoAlex Cuba, Nelly Furtado | Nelly Furtado | Play | 03:03 | 6 MB | 23 MB |
| 8 | FuerteJames Bryan, James Bryant, Alex Cuba, Nelly Furtado | Nelly Furtado | Play | 03:24 | 7 MB | 24 MB |
| 9 | SilencioJulio Reyes Copello, Nelly Furtado, Lester Mendez | Nelly Furtado | Play | 03:34 | 8 MB | 25 MB |
| 10 | Como LluviaNelly Furtado, Juan Luis Guerra, Lester Mendez | Nelly Furtado | Play | 03:37 | 8 MB | 23 MB |
| 11 | Feliz CumpleañosJames Bryan, James Bryant, Alex Cuba, Nelly Furtado | Nelly Furtado | Play | 08:44 | 20 MB | 55 MB |
| 44 mins | 102 MB | |||||
| 44 mins | 307 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carlos Alvarez | Engineer |
| 2 | Tyler Armes | Piano |
| 3 | Nick Banns | Arranger |
| 4 | Aureo Baqueiro | Vocal Producer |
| 5 | Nick Barnes | Arranger |
| 6 | Andres Bermudez | Editing, Mezcla |
| 7 | James Bryan | Arranger, Composer, Engineer, Guitar, Keyboard Programming, Producer, Programming, Recording |
| 8 | James Bryan | Composer |
| 9 | James Bryant | Composer |
| 10 | Concha Buika | Main Personnel |
| 11 | Míguel Bustamante | Assistant Engineer |
| 12 | Julio Reyes Copello | Composer |
| 13 | Colleen Creighton | Make-Up |
| 14 | Alex Cuba | Bajos, Composer, Main Personnel |
| 15 | Ryan Evans | Engineer |
| 16 | Alejandro Fernández | Main Personnel |
| 17 | James Freebarin-Smith | Cello |
| 18 | Nelly Furtado | Arranger, Composer, Executive Producer, Primary Artist, Producer |
| 19 | Chris Gehringer | Mastering |
| 20 | Alex Grant | Cello |
| 21 | Josh Groban | Main Personnel |
| 22 | Juan Luis Guerra | Composer, Main Personnel |
| 23 | Vincent Henry | Guitar |
| 24 | Allan Leschhorn | Engineer |
| 25 | Lee Levin | Bateria |
| 26 | Mark Liddell | Photography |
| 27 | Javier Limón | Flamenco Guitar, Guitar |
| 28 | Lester Mendez | Arranger, Bajos, Choir Arrangement, Composer, Engineer, Keyboards, Percussion, Producer, Programming |
| 29 | Joel Numa | Engineer |
| 30 | Alejandro Nunez | Photography |
| 31 | Rafael Padilla | Percussion |
| 32 | Ken Paves | Peinado |
| 33 | Andrés Recio | Composer |
| 34 | Salaam Remi | Bateria, Keyboards |
| 35 | Antonio Resendiz | Assistant Engineer |
| 36 | Mala Rodríguez | Main Personnel, Rap |
| 37 | Mario Rodriguez | Composer |
| 38 | Marc Rogers | Double Bass |
| 39 | Matthew Scannell | Bajos, Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric) |
| 40 | Franklin Emmanuel Socorro | Engineer |
| 41 | Ramón Stagnaro | Cuatro, Guitar, Guitar (Acoustic) |
| 42 | Roger Travassos | Percussion |
| 43 | Julian Jr. Vazquez | Engineer |
| 44 | Julieta Venegas | Accordion, Arranger, Composer, Main Personnel, Producer |
| 45 | Jorge Vivo | Engineer |
| 46 | Brian West | Producer |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |