MTV Artist Of The Week: Nelly Furtado

You loved Nelly Furtado in pigtails and peasant skirts, and you KNOW you love her in plenty of eyeliner and stilettos. And you know we're right there with you! But time was, back a few years ago, this Nelly was the first Nelly you thought of when ya hurd that name.

Ms. Furtado dropped the hippie-chick single "I'm Like A Bird" in 2000 and then seemingly flew away. But more than half a decade later, she shed her cute but stale boho-babe persona, cranked the hotness up to full-on sexpot mode and made an epic comeback, complete with a seriously sultry, sexy street sound. (Having Timbaland on her team didn't hurt either.) Loose went 5x platinum -- and counting(!!!) Now she's responsible for some of the best mainstream dance-pop tracks in years (not even we are sick of "Maneater" or "Promiscuous Girl," and we already done tol' you how much we love "Do It.")

And of course, she looks hotter than Hades, and she proved that not all moms wear Mom Jeans -- uh, not in the least. Now Ms. Furtado's the main Nelly in our game. So, it is any surprise that she's nominated for a 2007 VMA for Female Artist Of The Year?... Or that she'll be performing at the VMAs?

... OR…that she's this week's MTV Artist Of The Week? That's right, we're celebrating one of the hardest (and sexiest!) workin' women in the game all this week.

Okay, we told you why WE love her. Now you tell us why YOU love her.

Tags MTV Featured Artist, Music, Nelly Furtado, video, VMAs