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}} "Big Hoops (Bigger the Better)" is a song by Canadian recording artist Nelly Furtado, taken from her fifth studio album, ''The Spirit Indestructible''. It was released on April 17, 2012, through Interscope Records, as the lead single from the album. The song was written by Furtado in a collaboration with its producer Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins. "Big Hoops (Bigger the Better)" is a R&B song influenced by hip hop collective Odd Future and 1990s productions. The track's lyrics refer to the singer's life as a teenager, describing her passion for hip hop and R&B music at that time. "Big Hoops (Bigger the Better)" received mixed to positive reviews from music critics, who praised the song's breakdown but criticized Furtado's vocals. The song achieved moderate commercial success, reaching the top thirty in Belgium, Canada, The Netherlands and United Kingdom. In the United States, "Big Hoops (Bigger the Better)" failed to enter the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, however, it charted within the top forty on Pop Songs and reached the top ten on Hot Dance Club Songs. The accompanying music video was directed by Little X, and features Furtado sttruting down a city block wearing a giant pair of stilts, as she is joined by dancers throughout the video. To promote the song, Furtado performed it on ''Alan Carr: Chatty Man'', at the 2012 Billboard Music Awards and the 2012 MuchMusic Video Awards. == Background == "Big Hoops (Bigger the Better)" was one of the first songs that Furtado worked on with producer Rodney Jerkins for ''The Spirit Indestructible''.〔 The singer stated that the song's instrumentation was influenced by the 1990s hip hop and R&B as a tribute to the music she listened to in her teenage years, also citing inspiration from hip hop group Odd Future's "dark sound(), heavy and visceral" sound as she tried to recreate a similar style on "Big Hoops (Bigger the Better)". The lyrics of "Big Hoops (Bigger the Better)" also concern Furtado's teenage period, with the singer describing the song's lyrical content as "my swagger-in-spades, rhyme-writing 14-year-old self find() liberation through hip hop and R&B attending 'music jams' in suburban Victoria". There are references to Furtado's favourite groups at the period such as Salt-n-Pepa, A Tribe Called Quest and Blackstreet, many of whom were produced by Jerkins himself and her teenage wardrobe.〔 The song's title references the hoop earrings she liked to wear.〔 Furtado said that the song describes "a certain unique swagger you have at that young age and that the music gives you,"〔 and that she was "the kid who used to pick up the mic at parties and just rock the crowd, sing my way through the storm and know my voice could penetrate." The singer stated that as "hip-hop was super-exotic to us in Canada", she felt that "it was very liberating, finding that confidence through the music".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Big Hoops (Bigger the Better)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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