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Nelly Furtado on the Music That Terrified and Changed Her
Plus, her favorite bird: “Thank you for asking.”
By the time Furtado teamed up with Timbaland for 2006’s glossy, diamond-selling Loose, she was literally everywhere; you couldn’t leave the house that summer without hearing “Maneater” or “Promiscuous.” It was only when she began scrolling through TikTok — where fans were remixing her hits — and hearing her old songs played at the grocery store again that she felt some peace with her renown. At the Junos recently, which is like the Canadian version of the Grammys, I opened the show with the TikTok remix of “Say It Right.” I’d been exchanging messages with the DJ behind it, and he was really lovely and excited about it.
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