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Three years after her last album, Folklore, reinforced her as an eclectic artist, the Canadian-bred singer offers another twist to her musical temperament with this Spanish-language dance track. Produced by freak-funk god Timbaland, ”No Hay Igual” — which translates to ”there is no equal” — summons ominous synths and syncopated percussion that give it a fresh, futuristic bounce. It’s an enticing preview of her new album, Loose, due out 20th June.

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Today Nelly was featured in the “Daily Star” newspaper, a UK national tabloid.

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A belly good show by Nelly

Nelly Furtado has ditched her poncho and pan-pipes style in favour of simply being sexy.

As my fantastic shot shows, Nelly’s opted for lush hair and tight clobber to launch her new single “Maneater”. And becaus I’m immensely important, I’ve had an early listen to four of her new Timbaland tracks.

I predict big things when she releases in June, I also applaud her change of style.

For you guys that haven’t heard “Maneater” yet you can listen to it here:

Listen to “Maneater”

This is a full transcript for the article that was published in “Cover” magazine:

On a coffee table in a downtown Toronto hotel suite, Celine Dion and David Foster stare out from the cover of a glossy magazine. The pair, smug and self-satisfied, are the epitome of safe, sanitised pop. As Nelly Furtado breezes into the room to discuss Loose, her daring new album produced largely by hip hop’s Timbaland (aka Tim Mosley), the contrast begs comment: she and Mosley are worlds away from the Las Vegas glitz of Dion and Foster. “No kidding, eh,” laughs Furtado, settling into a sofa for an extended interview. “Tim’s always done break-through music, pushing sonic boundaries. And I like to always surprise people and turn their heads 360 degrees, like an exorcist spinning around.” Presumably, without the projectile vomiting. “My music’s always changning,” she continues. ” I don’t know if I have a short attention span, or if it’s just that I like too many styles of music to focus only on one. I just go where the inspiration takes me.”

This time, inspiration took Furtado to Miami, where she and beats mastermind Timbaland (Missy Elliott, Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg) recorded most of the tracks. Unline her previous albums, which only hinted at urban sounds, Loose is a full-on mix of contemporary Latin, hip hop and R&B styles. “My last two records were a little cerebral,” admits Furtado, “where this one is much more of the body. It’s all feel-oriented, vibe-oriented.” Hedonistic numbers like “Maneater”, the tribal-thumping first single, and “Promiscious Girl”, a steamy rap duet with Mosley, certainly take the Canadian songstress into edgier - and sexier - territory. Rolling Stone even went so far as to call her rhymes on “Promisuous Girl” a celebration of her “inner slut”, which Furtado, a single mother of a toddler, denies. “I just like double entendres,” she insists. ” The album title actually refers to how we approached the record, which was to make it in a very unhinged, unpolished and unedited way.

Loosness is one of the album’s many charms, from the in-studio banter between Furtado and Mosley to the raw, improvised quality of tracks like “Maneater” and “All Good Things” a duet with Coldplay’s Chris Martin. If anything, Loose is a celebration of Furtad’s inner child, as reflected in the giggling laughter that closes “Fraid” and the youthful spirit that pervades such songs as “Do it”, “Glow” and “Say it Right”. Like Gwen Stefani’s Love.Angel.Music.Baby, Furtado’s Loose is an unabashed dance record bound to thrill club-centric audiences - maybe at the expense of core listeners. The multicultural pop queen, whose previous recordings won a Grammy and a slew of Juno Awards, seems resigned to alienating some fans. “I pissed off people when I made a folk album last time,” she says, “and now I’m going to piss off the acoustic types with this album.”

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This is a full transcript for the article that was published in “Cover” magazine:

A cinematic sunset is bathing the chic glass-walled penthouse suite atop Toronto’s Cosmopolitan Hotel in picture-perfect golden hues, and the pressure’s on the wrestle a supremely glammed-up Nelly Furtado away from an intense hair, makeup and wardrobe session and get her in front of the camera before the magic hour is lost.

There’s consternation in the face of one of Nelly’s powder boys, though, as he catches wind of the grinding stoner-metal track by Queens of the Stone Age emanating from an iPod someone has carted along to the shoot.

“I don’t know if this is really Nelly’s thing,” he says, daring over to the player. “Maybe we should ask her if there’s anything else she wants to hear.”

Turns out, however, Queens is exactly Nelly’s style this evening. As she takes her place before the wide-screen view of the lake offered by the $3,500-a-night suite’s sitting room, she relays a request through her chuckling publicist for System of a Down. Yep, Nelly Furtado likes it one louder.

“That was fun. My little trick so that no one watches me while I’m taking photos is I listen to System of a Down,” she laughs a few days later, de-fabulised and dicing up potatoes to make soup for her 2-year-old daughter, Nevis. “I like listening to System while I’m taking really glamorous photos. I don’t know what it is. I like working to that music. I guess I like juxtapositions. And it’sa good way to clear a room.”

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Nelly was featured on the cover of Inside Entertainment Magazine, transcript is here once i have the transcipt of the interview and article i will publish it, if anyone has higher quality images then please contact me here:

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RIP Nikki

Nelly Furtado’s brand-new album “Loose” will hit stores worldwide on 20th June 2006. The record was initially slated for release in May but due to Nelly’s tour dates in Europe, Geffen decided to delay the release until after her concert commitments.

At first listen, “Loose” is an explosion of pure, raw energy. Continuing her “Força,” Nelly and Timbaland gather big beats and cheeky raps with lots of dance floor-ready production tricks.

Good examples of Nelly’s new vibe are the first singles “Promiscuous” (for the USA - a saucy, ghetto fabulous duet with Timbaland) and the irresistible club track “Maneater” (for the rest of the world).

The entire album sounds like a rough cut with studio chatting and Nelly’s giggling between tracks and even into the songs that creates a very informal (read: loose) atmosphere on the album.

“Loose” will surely be one of the most noteworthy pop releases of 2006 that will please her fans and pleasantly surprise the masses.

Read the full article at here.

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RIP Nikki

Canadian singer conjures more pop hybrid sounds on “Loose”

After a year and a half spent writing new songs, travelling the world to collaborate with Pharrell Williams, Coldplay’s Chris Martin and producer Nellee Hooper (No Doubt, Madonna), Nelly Furtado is finally ready to release her third album, Loose, on 23rd May 20th June 2006.

“It was a very indulgent experience,” says the eclectic Canadian pop singer. “It was actually the most idyllic sort of album-making ever. It’s sort of every artist’s dream, where you’re flown around the world, just kind of having a good time and making music.”

In August, when it came time to lay down the tracks, Furtado turned to hip-hop talent Timbaland, who featured her on Missy Elliott’s “Get UR Freak On” remix in 2001. When Interscope President Jimmy Iovine played Furtado some of the producer’s latest tracks, her reaction was “Wow! It sound[ed] like he’s listening to all the same stuff as me — everything from System of a Down to Bloc Party and Death From Above 1979, and a lot of Coldplay, too.” Within no time, says Furtado, “I was in Miami and having the time of my life.”

Working in the evenings, the pair laid down ten of Loose’s thirteen tracks, forging a new genre from their shared influences. “We call it ‘punk-hop,’” she says of most of the album’s sound. “We were thinking, ‘Let’s do modern Eurythmics — You’re Dave and I’m Annie. Let’s make this modern, poppy, spooky music.’ And we achieved that on some of the tracks.”

The track “Maneaters,” Furtado says, is “a ‘couture pop’ song, where it’s in your face and very fashionable, stylistic and of-the-moment,” while “No Hay Igual” takes its cues from reggaeton. “I didn’t know what reggaeton was until I went to Miami and Pharrell’s like, ‘You’re crazy!’” she confesses. “He played me a reggaeton song, and then I was like, ‘Holy shit, it’s great!’” She was inspired to write “No Hay Igual,” in Spanish, nearly on the spot.

The album closer “All Good Things,” which features Chris Martin, was actually a last-minute addition, after Furtado bumped into her old friend during August’s MTV Movie Awards. “I was telling him what I was up to, and he’s like, ‘I love Timbaland. Can I come by?’” she recalls. “But [Tim’s] like a big dude, and Chris was scared to sit down at the keyboard. I’m like, ‘Chris, sit down. Let’s make some music.’ I’m always the instigator.”

It was, in part, these spontaneous creative decisions that led Furtado to name the album Loose. “I left in all the sour notes; I left in all the giggling,” she says. “It’s good times.”

Written by: Jolie Lash

Source: Rolling Stone

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