Drake & Nelly Furtado - Promiscuous & I’m Like A Bird (Toronto History 2022)
Nelly Furtado & Drake perform Promiscuous & I’m Like A Bird live in concert at Drake's OVO presents The All-Canadian Northstars concert at History in Toronto, Canada on Thursday July 28th, 2022. See my other videos for more from this concert.
Nelly Furtado Releases Expanded Edition of "LOOSE" 🌴 (15th Anniversary)
Available now,HERE,Loose (Expanded Edition)further illuminates the attitude, vibe and creativity that captured the hearts of fans and critics alike. Among the rarities and bonus material onLooseare a version of "Do It" feat. Missy Elliott,Spanish versionsof "All Good Things (Come To An End)," "In God's Hands" and "Te Busque"feat. Juanes, plus several remixed tracks.
IGA/UMe kicked off the 15th-anniversary celebration ofLoose with theMay 28release ofNelly Furtado x Quarterhead, a remix EP featuring "All Good Things (Come To An End) (Nelly Furtado x Quarterhead)," a new remix by gold and platinum award-winning German production duo Quarterhead. The single is one of the bonus tracks on the expanded edition (and the Remix EP with three additional edits is availablehere).
Loose spawned eight singles, including Furtado's first No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hit, "Promiscuous" feat. Timbaland, which topped the charts just weeks after the album's original release and has also seen tremendous activity on social media this year with fans creating over 2 million short-form videos, including mashups with other hit songs, dance videos and remixes with other trending sounds, among others. "Promiscuous" now has three remix versions on the expanded edition: "Promiscuous (Axwell Remix) (feat. Timbaland)," "Promiscuous (Crossroads Vegas Mix)" and "Promiscuous (Josh Desi Remix)." An alternate version of the second Billboard chart topper, "Say It Right," is also included as one of the bonus tracks: "Say It Right (Reggae Main Mix) (Featuring Courtney John)."
Timbaland Feat Nelly Furtado & Justin Timberlake Performing "Give it To Me" Live
we Are still Celebrating for the Release of Timbaland Classic Solo Album 'Shock Value' After 10 Years and today we got some unreleased footage from the Archive Of Timbaland, Nelly Furtado, Justin Timberlake performing Live their #1 Hit Single "Give it To Me" & "Promiscuous" At the Rolling Stone Party Back in 2007
Nelly Furtado Talks about what Makes Timbaland "The Greatest"
In the March 2007 issue of GQ, Alex Pappademas considers Timbaland, the influential producer who made Missy Elliott's career, crafted hits for Jay-Z, and helped Nelly Furtado get Loose. Here, Furtado talks about what makes the man so great. Timbaland produced your third album, Loose. I think a lot of people were surprised when you teamed up with him, but the album turned out to be a huge success both commercially and creatively. Why do you think you guys worked so well together ? I think my career is all about unlikely collaborations, y'know. One day I'll do something with Timbaland, the next day I'll do something with Michael Bublé. The two don't really seem to have any thread that holds them together, but I like to be the thread.
The first time I met Tim, ironically, or not so ironically, was because he wanted to sample my music—a song called "Baby Girl" that I'd created with [producers] Track & Field. There's this whole vocal arrangement, that we spent hours on, with my voice totally layered, this very Brazilianinspired vocalpercussion riff that's a very big part of the song. He sampled that part of the song and created a whole song around it for one of his artists, Ms. Jade. And my label called me and said 'Hey, Timabland wants to sample you, but he wants you to come in and approve the track.' And I was like, 'Amazing,' because one of my musical dreams was to work with him.
This was, like, six years ago. So I went to the studio, and it was really like love at first sight. Musical love at first sight—literally within two minutes of meeting him, I was in a vocal booth with headphones on, and I was singing. That never happens. And it was really pure and real. I sang a whole improv section for the end of the song, and I ended up singing the chorus for the song, and doing the video and everything.
And y'know, since then, he was just a musical friend. We worked a couple more times in the studio, just doing remis and stuff. And we kinda lost touch for a while, like four years or something. And then when this album [Loose] came about, I started working with all kinds of producers—I worked with Track & Field, I worked with Pharrell, I worked with Scott Storch in Miami. I had a bunch of tracks, I had some good songs, but then finally the label was like, 'You know what Tim wants to do a track with you, and we think you should do it."
It hadn't occurred to me. We'd always talked about doing an album together, but I guess we'd been putting it off. It's kinda what everybody expected after the first album—that I'd put out a Tim album, like a hiphop/R&B album. I had showed my feathers a little bit, on different hiphop things I'd done with the Roots, and Jurassic 5 and Missy, and everyone was like, 'Okay, she'll go that way,' and I didn't, because I hate doing what people think I'm gonna do. So anyway, I flew to Miami. And it was a momentous occasion, cause I hadn't seen him in about four years, so when I walked in that studio it was like seeing an old friend, or when you go and see a relative you haven't seen in ages, and you've flown across the world or something. He's sitting there behind all these keyboards, cramped in the corner. And he was like, 'Hey—let's make some music.' And that very same day, I just had this feeling in the pit of my stomach like something magical was gonna happen.
So you wrote the whole album together in the studio ?
Oh, yeah, totally. These songs came out of pure spontaneous moments, just hanging, just vibing. That's why I named the album Loose. When we did the album, we kind of approached it like we were a band. We had these fabulous dreams of actually starting a band. I felt like I was in a band—like I was in Blondie or something. We decided to do a lot of this album in the mix room, just on the floor. I wasn't in an [isolation] booth writing it. We would all write and jam right in front of the board. We were all so passionate—we wouldn't stop to eat our food, we'd just record late at night, and go home so tired.
What was the process like Would he start by just throwing you a beat ?
Yeah. He has, like, skeletons of beats sometimes, on his keyboard. And he'll have, like, twenty things, and he'll just play me stuff. He's the only producer where I have a melody for absolutely everything he plays me. He just inspires me on a really basic level, like a primal level. Everything he plays really inspires me. He'll play a beat, and I'll start singing, and I'll come up with a hook. He's very picky, so it's great for me. It's a very Pavlovian experience, because every time he didn't like something, he'd just kind of leave the room and go do something else.[laughs]So I learned very quickly to only come correct with my hooks.
I totally know what you're talking about. When I was interviewing him, and he wasn't into a line of questioning, he'd sort of tune out ?
I know, I know! You gotta keep him interested. He's got a low attention span. But so do I. That's why we get along. It's kinda funny. Actually, though, certain songs weren't like that. Like "Promiscuous"—people always assume I wrote that song, because I write all my other material, but that's the firstever song that I didn't really write that much of. I wrote maybe 50% of the lyrics, but the melody is all Tim. And the whole "Promiscuous" thing came out of Tim's dirty little mouth. [laughs] He didn't know what he meant when he said it. He didn't know what "Promiscuous" meant, isn't that funny He really only learned what it meant once it became a really big hit. He was like, "Oh—that's what that's about."
I Guess He just knew it was something dirty...
He just knew it was a sexy word. Tim's kinda all about—when I say he's all about sex, I don't mean he's some kind of sexual fiend, but he's really a very visceral human being, very electric, very ofthisworld. I think he's extremely gifted. I think he's been abnormally blessed, by God, with a really special gift, to just really make peoplemove. I always say it's like he's an extraterrestrial on the keyboards, because it's like he's beaming things in from outer space, but it's almost like he's beaming things in from thefuture, y'know He's always just five years ahead of everybody else, and that's just a fact, and that'll never change. It's just who he is—it's a part of who he is. He's just not satisfied with mediocrity, he's not satisfied with being like everybody else. And he doesn't even have to study that hard to do that. It's justinhim. Some people are natural forecasters of public taste, or natural forecasters of culture. They're just ahead of their time. And I think Tim was born that way, and he'll always be ahead of his time.
When I tried to have the nutsandbolts music conversation with him, and talk about why he made certain choices, he didn't have that much to say. I got the sense that doesn't really intellectualize this stuff.
Yeah, not at all. He's the opposite
It's that directlinetoGod kind of musicmaking.
It's funny, though, because it's so human. It's almost like his music really connects that world to fleshandbone humanity. And that's why this album of mine is the way it is. People are like, "Oh, this is different. It's very sexual." And I was at a time, too, where I was just getting kind of comfortable with real life and making mistakes, and not being afraid of the darker side of things. And I think it was a perfect moment for him and I to make that album, because it was me just really letting go. I had to get on that horse and ride that wave. He taught me how to let go of thinking too much. Because I think the only difference between my new CDs and my old CD is really that in the past, I think I overintellectualized my music, and when I work with Tim it's impossible to overintellectualize, because you just can't do it. He's just such a good meter of realness that it just doesn't happen. He's the type of guy who, I'll be like, "C'mon, Tim, let's bring in some musicians"—we brought in these wonderful Cuban guitar players, and we spent like five or six hours tracking this song, and he's like, "Aww, it's cool, it's cool," and at the end he just erased everything. He liked it better the way it sounded without it! He knows what he likes.
And you trust him on that ?
Yeah, I do. You have to. You can't let your pride get in the way. That's why the album sounds so rough. The label was like, "What's up with this mix It's so dirty. It sounds so raw and edgy. We don't like it. We need a more pristine mix," and I was like, "No, that's not the point." The whole thing is sonics, the whole thing is sound. That's what Tim does. He doesn't do what everybody else does, y'know And that's the way to change popular culture, really. Do something different, and lead people this way or that way. He's the leader of the pack. It's uncanny.
Did he work really fast on a lot of these songs Did they not take as long as some of the tracks you've done in the past ?
Oh, yeah. I've got a great story, actually. Y'know how he had no idea about "Promiscuous" being a risqué word He had put up another beat, which ended up being a song called "Do It." And I was sitting there in the hallway, writing the lyrics, and his beat was up, playing for like an hour, and I was like, "Tim, this beat's so good. It's been on for an hour and I'm not sick of it." And he's like, "Really What you got for it" And I sang it to him, like, "Oh, do it like you do it to me/Do it like you do it to me." And he's like "Oh, I like it, but I don't know—is it too risqué for, like, the _TRL_type crowd" [laughs] And again, this is after we did "Promiscuous."
Promiscuity is okay, but…
…you can't say "Do it like you do it to me."[laughs] via GQ Magazine
It’s the song forever reminds you of a particular year – the summer hit. It’s the tune you can’t get out of your head, which greets you every time you pop into a store or work out at the gym, according to Billboard magazine, these are Timbaland's top summer jams of the past 15 years.
1- on the week of June 17, 2000. "Try Again" By Aaliyah debuted on #1 in the US Billboard Hot 100, It also peaked at number one on the Hot 100 Airplay chart, "Try Again" Was the Official Soundtrack for The Movie "Romeo Must Die"AALIYAH
2- On 8 July 2006 "Promiscuous" By Nelly Furtado Feat Timbaland topped the Billboard Hot 100, and becoming her first number-one single. It spent six weeks at the top spot.. this sexy song was an international hit for the Canadian songstress.NELLY FURTADO
3- "SexyBack" By Justin Timberlake was commercially successful in the US. The single debuted at number One on the Billboard Hot 100 in July 2006, Also its became Timberlake's first number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 from his Futuresex/Lovesounds album.The single spent seven consecutive weeks at the number-one position on the Hot 100. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
4- "My Love" was commercially successful in the United States. The single debuted at number #1 on Billboard Hot 100November 11, 2006, "My Love" was certified Platinum by the RIAA on February 26 2007,and has sold 2,208,000 copies as of April 2013. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
5- The Song "Say It Right" By Nelly Furtado debuted on the BillboardHot 100chart at number #1
in February 2007, "Say It Right" was certified Platinum by the ARIA as A Platinum Single.
6- "What Goes Around.../...Comes Around" was commercially successful in the US. The single debuted at number #1 on December 23, 2006 on the BillboardHot 100, and it was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of Americaon June 2007.
7- In the US, "Give It to Me" debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 on the week ending 24 February 2007 at number eighty-seven.The song slowly rose the chart for weeks until the week ending 21 April 2007, when the song ascended forty-one places, from forty-two, to Number One
8- "Apologize" was OneRepublic's breakout hit and first number one hit. In the US, "Apologize" peaked at number #2 on the the Billboard Hot 100, and became the third single from Shock Value to have topped the chart. It also became the album's first number one single on the BillboardAdult Top 40.
9- "The Way I Are" By Timbaland Feat Keri Hilson & D.O.E topped the chart In UK, the song debuted at number One on the UK Singles Chart on July 1, 2007 , becoming Timbaland's second Second Single following "Give It to Me".
10- "4 Minutes" By Madonna feat Justin Timberlake & Timbaland topped the chart In UK, the song debuted at number one on Billboard's European Hot 100 for four weeks.Overall, "4 Minutes" reached number one in 21 countries worldwide, According to the Official Charts Company, it was the seventh best-selling song of 2008 and has sold 500,000 copies there.
In a time when output frequency is imperative to maintaining relevance, few artists are making music that stands the test of time. Even when iconic naughties tunes resurface in the club, it's often for the sake of millennial-nostalgia and not because it really holds up in 2017. But show me one track from Nelly Furtado's Loose that wouldn't chart if it was released today and I'll show you the door.
While Furtado has been a pop mainstay since "I'm Like a Bird" in 2004, it was her 2006 Timbaland-produced record that catapulted her to stratospheric success. The album became the soundtrack to the '00s, playing LA's hot spots while Lauren Conrad confronted Brody Jenner on The Hills, dominating MTV with pop'n'b hits like "Promiscuous Girl" and "Say it Right." Whether she was aware or not, Nelly's low-rise jeans and slew of bangers were raising us. Now, after 10 years and a whole lot of living, Nelly Furtado is stripped down and back on top with new album The Ride – and we couldn't be more grateful.
We spoke to the original pop princess about her evolution, musical catharsis and how to avoid turning reptilian.
This is so surreal--I wrote an article listing you as one the artists I would love to see make a 2017 comeback and here you are!
That's hilarious. It's kind of funny because I guess it's been a minute. I was always working but over the past few years I wasn't doing as many projects, just kind of focusing on other things.
Well Loose was such a success when it came out and you had this enormous fame, I can imagine it's daunting to have to present yourself for consideration 10 years on.
Yeah, it's weird. It's been a while since I've done the whole "talk about myself for months on end"-thing. I always laugh that you become like a reptile after a while. Like, long enough on the road.
What's the metaphorical stick that brings you back to life?
Well, lights, camera, action, you know? [Laughs]. Get on top of the table and do your thing. Entertainers learn at a young age that you've got this talent that people like to watch and it can spread a lot of joy. I always came at it from a different perspective, I felt like a songwriter. Like, creating quietly. Don't get me wrong, I do have an extroverted side, I'll go big or go home when it comes to a night out. But there is another side of me that is really uncomfortable around large crowds.
I remember when Loose came out and you were really heavily scrutinized for being this "new, highly-sexualized Nelly." I'm curious how you dealt with that kind of pressure so young. It must have been incredibly grueling. Was that a huge part of growing the reptilian skin?
I mean, there's a side of entertainers too, we're very self-interested. There's a part of it that really fuels your ego, like "Yay, everyone is talking about me," but it's also really juvenile. I've outgrown that need to be the center of attention. The way the industry is designed, let's be honest, it's to stroke your ego. You can't get anymore egotistical then performing your songs on stage and have people cheer for you. The beast feeds itself. The industry feeds itself that type of Kool-Aid.
Oh, 100 percent.
The Loose period too, I mean, I was in my 20s. Half of me was like, "This is amazing! Everyone is talking about me!" And the other half was like,"Maybe you should slow down because this is unsustainable." Now, I slow down, I have to wake up everyday and think, How do I want my life to be? When you start to accept that you're not perfect and perhaps you can make mistakes and you need to conquer some of your fears. I'll always remember writing this album.
This is so weird and niche and you're going to think I'm lying, but when Loose came out, my friends all were each designated a song from the album which was "us." So one friend got "Maneater" and one friend got "Promiscuous Girl" and I was given "All Good Things Come to an End."
They gave you the emo song?! You should ask for a reinstatement!
I honestly wish I got "Do It."
That's what I was going to say! I was literally about to say, "I think you should get 'Do it.'"
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