"Força" is a pop folk

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 song written by Portuguese

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

-Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 singer Nelly Furtado

Nelly Furtado

Nelly Kim Furtado is a Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer and actress. Furtado grew up in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.Furtado first gained fame with her debut album, Whoa, Nelly!, and its single "I'm Like a Bird", which won a 2001 Juno Award for Single of the Year and a 2002 Grammy...

, and Gerald Eaton

Gerald Eaton

Gerald Eaton is a Canadian R&B singer-songwriter and music producer, originally from Jamaica.He is the lead singer for the R&B-pop group The Philosopher Kings, which reached its peak popularity in the 1990s...

 and Brian West

Brian West (musician)

Brian West was the lead guitarist for the Canadian band The Philosopher Kings. His partner, Gerald Eaton began the record label Track and Field Records after they were nominated for several awards as a production duo under the name of Track and Field...

 for Furtado's second studio album Folklore. It is sung mainly in English, with the chorus completely in the Portuguese language

Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...

. It was produced by Track

Gerald Eaton

Gerald Eaton is a Canadian R&B singer-songwriter and music producer, originally from Jamaica.He is the lead singer for the R&B-pop group The Philosopher Kings, which reached its peak popularity in the 1990s...

 & Field

Brian West (musician)

Brian West was the lead guitarist for the Canadian band The Philosopher Kings. His partner, Gerald Eaton began the record label Track and Field Records after they were nominated for several awards as a production duo under the name of Track and Field...

 and received a positive reception from music critics. Released in June 2004, the song was chosen as the official anthem of the 2004 European Football Championship held in Portugal

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

. The song was considered to represent Portugal at the Eurovision Song Contest 2004

Eurovision Song Contest 2004

The Eurovision Song Contest 2004, was the 49th Contest and it was held in the Abdi İpekçi Arena in Istanbul, Turkey. This was the first occasion in which the contest was held in Turkey after they had won the competition in 2003 with Sertab Erener singing "Everyway That I Can"...

 in Istanbul

Istanbul

Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...

, however, the plans of Portuguese broadcaster RTP

Rádio e Televisão de Portugal

Rádio e Televisão de Portugal, S.A.,commonly known as RTP, is Portugal's public service broadcasting organization. It operates four terrestrial television channels and three national radio channels, as well as several satellite and cable offerings....

 changed, selecting a song through a different method. Furtado said about the song: "When I was touring in Portugal, people would frequently say goodbye to me by saying "Força", which is Portuguese slang. It translates as "Keep going", or "Kick ass". It's also associated with sports, especially football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

. I put a feminine twist on the idea of how you feel when you’re watching your favorite team. When you tie that into nationality, it becomes pretty intense. So this is a happy song, a burst of energy. Plus, we have [banjoist] Béla Fleck

Béla Fleck

Béla Anton Leoš Fleck is an American banjo player. Widely acknowledged as one of the world's most innovative and technically proficient banjo players, he is best known for his work with the bands New Grass Revival and Béla Fleck and the Flecktones.-Early life and career details:Fleck was born in...

 playing on the song. His contribution here is amazing.".

Music video

The music video

Music video

A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

 was shot in Toronto

Toronto

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

, Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

 and directed by Ulf Buddensiek. It was released in 2005 to the iTunes

ITunes

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 music Store. The music video begins with Furtado wearing a pink top and loops gold earrings, and a necklace with her hair tied back, singing in an alley way while in front of the camera. In the back drop while Furtado is singing a boy with the Portuguese national team shirt is playing with a football and doing tricks. It also shows Furtado sitting on a ledge in the video singing to camera. In the middle of the video the boy accidentally kicks the ball too high and it gets stuck on the pipes in the corner of the apartment building where he's playing. As Furtado continues singing more and more people come to help the little boy and they end up building a human pyramid to lift and support him up the side of the building. Furtado finally joins the pyramid and the group lifts the boy up to his ball. The version of the song used in the video is different from the album version. It's the version that was prepared to be used on the Eurovision Song Contest (a.k.a. Swiss American Federation Mix Edit). The second version of the video features a Radio Edit for the Album version.

Tracklisting

German 2-Track Single

1. "Força" (Radio Edit) - 2:58
2. "Força" (Swiss American Federation Mix) - 3:08

German 4-Track Single / UK CD Single

1. "Força" (Radio Edit) - 2:58
2. "Força" (Swiss American Federation Mix) - 3:08
3. "Powerless (Say What You Want)" (Spanish Version, Featuring Juanes
   Juanes
   Juan Esteban Aristizábal Vásquez , better known as Juanes is a Colombian musician who was a member of heavy metal band Ekhymosis and is now a solo artist. In 2000, his solo debut album Fíjate Bien won three Latin Grammy Awards.Juanes has sold more than 13 million albums...
   
   ) - 3:54
4. "Força" (Video) - 3:40

Remixes

• "Força" (Rui Da Silva Vocal Mix) (7:59)
• "Força" (Rui Da Silva Kismet Mix) (7:54)
• "Força" (Rui Da Silva Radio Edit) (4:24)
• "Força" (Armand Van Helden Remix) (8:22)
• "Força" (Armand Van Helden Dub) (8:22)
• "Força" (Swiss American Federation Extended Mix) (5:17)
• "Força" (Swiss American Federation Main Mix) (3:33)
• "Força" (Exacta Mix) (5:57)
• "Força" (Viper XXL Remix) (5:13)
• "Força" (Jose Spinnis Musica Club Mix) (6:56)
• "Força" (K.O. Força Da Natureza Anthem Mix) (10:25)
• "Força" (Richard Cabrera Show Mix) (5:58)
• "Força" (Supermesclas Remix) (7:51)
• "Força" (FM3 Remix) (6:32)
• "Força" (Extesizer Remix) (4:37)
• "Força" (Di Paul Can't Stop Remix) (9:19)
• "Força" (Tartaruga Tribal Final Mix) (8:18)
• "Força" (DJ Leonardo Lisboa & DJ In The Beat Remix) (4:00)
• "Força" (DJ Luis Erre Tribe Vocal Mix)
• "Força" (Kamppuss Tribal Club Mix) (6:12)
• "Força" (DJ Stefano Remix)
• "Força" (DJ Gabriel Remix)
• "Força" (Beazzear Remix)
• "Força" (GR Remix)
• "Força" (Radio Edit) (2:58)
• "Força" (Radio Version) (3:01)
• "Força" (Album Version) (3:30)
• "Força" (Instrumental Version) (3:43)
• "Força" (European Extended Version) (4:26)
• "Força" (A Capella) (3:40)
• "Força" (LP Version)
• "Força" (EK Edit)

Charts

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Chart (2004)	Peak position