Pop rock es un genero musical que combina melodías y letras típicas de la música pop con elementos propios del rock como son una mayor presencia de guitarras eléctricas o un ritmo más fuerte. Existen diversas definiciones para el término que van desde una forma más lenta y suave de rock hasta un subgénero dentro del pop.
Nelly Kim Furtado es una cantante y compositora canadiense, nacida el 2 de Diciembre de 1978 en la ciudad de Victoria, Columbia Británica. Con influencias del pop, folk, rnb y hip-hop, es conocida por experimentar con diferentes instrumentos, géneros, idiomas y estilos vocales, lo cual ella atribuye a sus padres, que son de origen portugués, y debido también a sus variadas influencias musicales y su interés por otras culturas. A muy temprana edad empezó a tocar instrumentos musicales y a los 13 comenzó a componer canciones.
Saltó a la fama con el lanzamiento de su primer álbum Whoa, Nelly! en el 2000, el cual vendió mas de 7 millones de copias. Su primer single I'm Like a Bird fué un éxito y gracias a él ganó su primer Grammy. Años mas tarde, tras convertirse en madre, lanza su segundo álbum Folklore, el cual fue menos exitoso aunque logró vender más de 3 millones de copias. De él destacan los singles Try y Powerless (Say What You Want).
Peso, joga, ginga, roda
Vera's face burnt as a memory of bedroom fun
With a ligther and some hairspray
Smoking in the girls' room
Not worse than Shelley's rape behind the McDonald's
By a man she thought was fine, didn't tell anybody
Maybe back then we just thought that she was getting some
Now we look back and see that she didn't know how
We never thought that we'd get caught up
Stuck in the teenage waste
As we explode
As we explode
Then getting drunk in the bushes by the road
Out the Kmart rolling around in them to see
If you would get prickled, slip the acid on your tongue
Rooftop mall parkade, we couldn't get enough
Then count the stars and the ten million woes
Just you and the universe judging each other
We never knew that we'd get caught up
Stuck in the teenage waste
As we explode
As we explode
As we explode
As we let go
Peso, roda, ginga, joga
It's a fight, it's a fight and you finally belong
Got a shiner now and it's more than a battle scar
More than a battle scar, such a good, good story to tell
At lunch break, lunch break, lunch break, lunch break
Such a good, good story to tell
You bully, you break, you bully, you break
You fake, you fake, you fake, you fake
You smoke, you toke, you want, you flaunt
You hit it and you're in it and it's spinning
And it's wild
We never thought that we'd get caught up
Stuck in the teenage waste
As we explode
As we explode
As we explode
As we let go
We're counting the stars
We're counting the stars
We're gonna go far, we're gonna go far
We're counting the stars
We're counting the stars
We're not very far, we're not very far
And it's you and me in the open air
It's truth or dare, we don't care
We're counting the stars
We're counting the stars
We're counting the stars
We're counting the stars