Nelly Furtado and Elton John will perform duet of The Rocket Man’s 1973 hit “Crocodile Rock” for the upcoming animated ensemble comedy Gnomeo & Juliet, a project that is being produced by John’s longtime beau David Furnish. Elton’s already agreed to lay down vocals with pop sensation Lady Gaga for the movie’s theme song, “Hello, Hello.”

Gnomeo & Juliet arrives in theaters Feb. 11, 2011.

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Nelly recently recorded a new track with James Morrison that will be featured on the English singer’s sophomore album. According to sources the song is called ‘Broken Strings’.

The album’s release date has not been set yet, but all indicates that it will hit shelves in September 2008.

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The two singers met up in Miami while both were recording their respective next albums with songwriter/producer Timbaland, who helped supply the necessary introductions. “I had met Justin briefly before, but I hadn’t really hung out with him,” Furtado said. Still, they felt like they knew each other — they had so many mutual friends and collaborators, such as Pharrell Williams, who had worked with Timberlake previously and had just teamed up with Furtado for her new record as well. “Supposedly it was Pharrell’s idea for me to work with Tim too,” Furtado laughed. “Jimmy Iovine, the head of my record label [Interscope], might beg to differ.”

After deciding they were like “distant cousins,” Timberlake and Furtado started tinkering around with a song called “Crowd Control” just for fun, without worrying where it might be released (see “Justin Timberlake ‘In A Good Place’ With His Collabos”). “It’s just a cute, clubby, upbeat, fun track,” she said. “It’s kind of sexy. I like it.” Working with the former ‘NSYNC singer also gave Furtado a new respect for him.

“You know what’s cool about Justin? He has his own style,” she said. “He has his own unique take on melody, and he has his own unique take on lyrics — and he’s specific about lyrics. We’re writing the song, I gave him a melody, he gave me a lyric, back and forth, back and forth, and he was really specific about how he wanted them to sound.

“It takes a lot to come from a place where you don’t have any credibility at all, like in the so-called ‘serious’ music world, to get to the point where you’re jamming with the Rolling Stones,” she continued, referring to when Timberlake joined the Stones at a Toronto SARS benefit (see “Justin Timberlake Joins Stones At Toronto Benefit, Gets Pelted With Garbage”). “You’re up there? You’re a real musician. I think it’s great. I love underdogs. I love it when people come out and prove other people wrong — it’s like, ‘Yeah, you go!’ ”

The part Furtado liked best, though, was that working with the two Tims — Timberlake and Timabaland — didn’t feel like work at all. “It’s like a little camp, you know?” she said. “Justin’s amazing. He’s really inspiring as an individual because he’s really evolved. He’s really calm and comfortable in his own skin. He’s really grounded, and really funny and laid back at the same time.”

That made it easy to hand over the song, even though having a Timberlake track could have given a little bit of extra value to Furtado’s album. But she wasn’t basing what made the cut for her album “Loose” on the celebrity factor — sonics and flow were more important — so she also set aside tracks she’d worked on with Pharrell and Scott Storch, and Timberlake took “Crowd Control” for his album instead.

“We’re all in it for the music,” she said. “We’re all creative, we like having fun and putting out good music. Justin has the same interest: just put out a good album, front to back, so everything’s going to be hot, hot, hot. You know it’s going to be good because there aren’t any leftover tracks or sloppy seconds.”

Still, Furtado cautions that their collaboration might end up as a bonus track or import version of Timberlake’s album, because while her album’s already finished and ready to be released on 20th June (USA), 12th June (Rest of the World), his is still in the mixing phase, so anything could happen. “I know they’re going to be using it, but I don’t know if it’s going to be on the U.S. release,” she said. “It might have to be one of those things you have to dig around for.”

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Martin, who is also rumoured to be collaborating with Kanye West, guested on the track because he wanted to collaborate with celebrated Missy Elliott producer Timbaland, who worked on the album.

Nelly said “I was telling (Chris) what I was up to, and he’s like ‘I love Timbaland. Can I come by?’ But (Timbaland’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,”

Billboard reports that in a posting on her official website Furtado described the album as having “lots of surprises” and being “a whole lot of fun”.

Furtado has collaborated with The Neptunes’ Pharrell Williams for the new album.

The album, the follow-up to 2003′s ‘Folklore’, is due out 23rd May 2006 20th June 2006.

Tracklist for Michael Bublé ‘s second album:

1. Feeling Good
2. A Foggy Day (In London Town)
3. You Don’t Know Me
4. Quando, Quando, Quando
5. Home
6. Can’t Buy Me Love
7. The More I See You
8. Save The Last Dance For Me
9. Try A Little Tenderness
10. How Sweet It Is
11. A Song For You
12. I’ve Got You Under My Skin
13. You And I
14. Dream A Little Dream
15. Mack The Knife