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Day #1 on the set of Nelly Furtado’s new music video “The Night is Young” off her upcoming album set to be released next month. The first day of shooting consisted of rain and gloom outside, but indoors with Nelly’s great energy it didn’t matter how the weather looked outside. The set with filled with lively spirited fans playing the role of ‘party goers’ and an amazing Nelly Furtado who kept a big smile throughout the whole day.

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Nelly Furtado performing on stage at the Much Music Videos Awards 2006

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For her new album, Canuck popstress Nelly Furtado downplayed her putumayo hippie vibe, hung out with Paris Hilton in Miami and learnt the value of a good booty-shake.

By Victoria de Silverio

When you broke in 2000 with “I’m Like a Bird,” you were a funky boho chick, kind of an anti-Britney. Now you’re releasing your third album, and you’ve turned into a midriff-baring sex bomb. What happened?

I made the new album in Miami and I felt really sexy there. Miami accepts booty! Plus, when I came into the business, I was really intimidated by all those girls who had been on the Mickey Mouse Club when they were kids. I’m just now catching up, accepting my job more. My video choreographer taught me how to move in all these different ways. I’m more at ease with my body than I have ever been.

Is your booty your best asset?

Physically speaking, yes. I like it. It’s good. It’s nice to have something to hold on to. It’s just coming out of the woodwork, though, so it’s still shy. It doesn’t want too much spotlight.

Your first record, Whoa, Nelly!, sold 2 million copies; your second one, 2003’s Folklore, sold one-quarter of that. did you worry that you were washed up at 24?

I was talking to Jimmy Iovine, the boss at my new label, and he thinks that Folklore is like U2’s Pop — not quite there. I wasn’t smiling and jumping up and down anymore; I was wearing a guitar and looked serious. Four or five songs have Portuguese folk music. That’s just crazy. After Folklore, I realised I had maybe taken certain things for granted. Like, isn’t everyone’s first performance on SNL? Isn’t everyone’s first interview with Vanity Fair? Doesn’t everyone open for U2 and win a Grammy? Whoops! I should have appreciated all that stuff, especially the free clothes.

How do you feel now when you hear “I’m Like a Bird”?

I’ve heard it sung at karaoke or by cover bands, and it was awesome — I was like, wow, I’ve got one of those songs. Somebody once called it a “hairbrush song,” one that girls and guys sing in front of the mirror with their hairbrush. I just think I’m lucky I have it — it’s paying the bills!

Your flirty new single with Timbaland is called “Promiscuous.” Would you describe yourself as such?

No, although I did go through a phase when my first album came out, and I was meeting all these cool people. I’d get their phone numbers and call them. But I don’t do that anymore.

Do you usually make the first move?

I do. I’m aggressive. But now, I actually have a boyfriend. A secret boyfriend. Of eight months.

Why is he a secret?

I just don’t really talk about it. It’s nobody famous or anything.

You have a 2-year-old daughter named Nevis. Who’s her babydaddy?

Jasper. DJ Lil’ Jaz. He’s a DJ-turntablist-slash-keyboard-player-slash-producer. We broke up a year ago and were together for four years, friends for like five or six years before that. We’re fully active co-parents and really close friends, so things are irie.

Why didn’t you two ever get married? Are you not the marrying kind?

I’m kind of modern. I don’t really live by society’s standards. Maybe in the next five years I’ll get married, have more kids. One grandmother had eight kids, the other had 10. If I have that many kids, then I would need a hubby.

You’re 27, which is the age of gruesome premature rock deaths: Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison. Why do you think 27 is such a killer?

I think the rock & roll lifestyle affords you a motorway to midlife crisis, which comes 10 to 20 years earlier than it normally would. You’re dealing with the increased neurosis of becoming an adult and you’ve got to deal with your inner demons in front of everyone.

How do you exorcise your demons?

Listening to heavy, heavy rock music like System of a Down and Death From Above 1979. I love the rhythms and the loud vocals and guitars.

Is noise rock your biggest vice?

I also use these homeopathic healing oils called Bach Flower Remedies.

With a syringe, at least?

I just spray them under my tongue.

How are you stereotypically Canadian?

I’m politically correct and very nice. Canadians are known for their niceness.

Are you more hippie or hood at heart?

Hippie. I had a home birth with midwives. I’m into spirituality and reading about different religions, even Wicca. I went through a feminist phase and read a lot of philosophical stuff. Some of the male-bashing brainwashed me for a bit so I stopped. I love men!

What about the hood part?

I know how to fit in. When I was making my record with Timbaland in Miami, people would show up with briefcases of cash and say to Tim, “Give me a beat.”

Who else showed up in Miami?

Paris Hilton. [Producer] Scott Storch brought her around to meet me. She’s sweet. Girl-next-door type of vibe.

Are you looking forward to Paris’s album?

Yeah, for sure. I’ve heard it was good. She’s an underdog and I like underdogs. In secondary school I was friends with all the underdogs. I had my cool friends, too, but I liked to be friends with the people that nobody liked. When I met Paris, I told her, “Good luck, and you’re innocent till proven guilty in the music business.”

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Nelly on Z103.5 (Toronto) Part 1

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North Miami, FL 12th October 2005 – Singer Nelly Furtado works on her upcoming album, Loose, at The Hit Factory in North Miami. The Album is out 20th June 2006 (North America) and 12th June 2006 (Rest of the World).

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This cover was posted by addicted, member of the BITS forum.

I am publishing this as a rumour since this hasn’t been officially announced, however it has been published as the cover on Nellys section on the Universal Japanese site here.

So that could be good proof that this is going to be the official cover! Notice Nelly isn’t lying down.. like her previous album covers…

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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:

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I’m not sure what they are for, they could possibly be linked to a music video, they could be something to do with her album cover? If anyone knows anything about them and what they are for, or has higher quality versions then please contact me.

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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.”

Born in Victoria to Portuguese parents, Furtado has defied conventional wisdom from the start by embracing eclecticism and her own ethnicity. Her debut Whoa, Nelly! released in 2000, included both her breezy pop hit “I’m like a Bird” and later, in some regions, the Portuguese ballad “Onde Estas”. It has sold more than six million copies to date around the world. Her follow up, 2003′s Folklore, featured sounds as diverse as mainstream pop melodies, Brazilian rhythms, hip hop grooves, church music, acoustic folk and funk. Guests ranged from Bela Fleck and Caetano Veloso to the Kronos Quartet, and songs included the Euro 2004 football anthem “Forca”, the immigrant-themed “Fresh Off The Boat” and the breakbeat-laden “Powerless (Say What You Want)”. The latter was a forceful condemnation of the media’s attempt to lighten her olive complexion in photographs: “Paint my face in your magazines,” she sang. “Make it look whiter than it seems.”

While Loose favours lighter messages and mostly carefree party tunes, there’s a heavier emphasis on worldy sounds. In particular, Furtado dove deep into the Latin musical diaspora of the Miami scene. She sings several tracks in Spanish, including the Timbaland-produced “No Hay Igual”, a groove-alicious tune rooted in the Caribbean hip hop fusion style known as reggaeton and the romantic ballad “Te Busque”, produced by Lester Mendez (Shakira). “Being in Miami, as a young Latin woman, made me feel very at home,” says Furtado. “I’ve always loved the Latin American culture in the United States and I realised how much I enjoy singing in Spanish, not just Portuguese. It comes really naturally to me.”

Furtado’s first brush with the Latin music market dates back to 2002, when she sang a duet with Colombian pop star Juanes on his single “Fotografia”. It became a number one hit on the Latin charts and the pair performed the song on the Latin Grammy Awards show. Juanes later returned the favour, joining Furtado on her Spanish version of “Powerless.”

Meanwhile, Furtado’s love affair with R&B and hip hop began when she was growing up in Victoria, listening to everything from Mary J. Blige and Boyz II Men to LL Cool J and Ice T. After moving to Toronto at 17 (she lived with relatives), she formed a trip-hop duo called Nelstar. As legend now has it, her career break came when she appeared in a downtown club as the only white female at the Honey Jam, a showcase of black women performerse. There she met The Philosopher Kings’ Gerald Eaton and his manager Chris Smith. Eaton and his partner, Brian West, became her production team known as Track & Field, while Smith took on management duties. Furtado first crossed paths with Timbaland with he sampled “Baby Girl” from Whoa, Nelly! and then remixed the album’s “Turn Off The Light.” Timbaland also brought Furtado in to duet on his remix of Missy Elliott’s “Get UR Freak On.”

Sitting in the hotel suite, the diminutive Furtado talks in fast, staccato bursts, punctuated frequently by eruptions of girlish laughter, as she explains her embrace of hip hop. “I’ve been doing all these collaborations with these great acts like Missy Elliott, Jurassic 5 and The Roots,” Furtado recalls, “and I suddenly though, if hip hop comes so naturally to me, why not do it on my own albums. Am I too good for hip hop? Isn’t that kind of egotisticall and pretentious? Why can’t I let go of all that?” She continues: ” I also realised that I’d done The Tonight Show with Jay Leno like five or six times, and the time I was least nervous was when I was performing with Missy Elliott. It just rolled off. I had to get on and do it myself.”

Working with Timbaland on Loose, she says, gave her the freedom to delve deeply into her love of hip hop. “Tim’s a definite genius,” says Furtado. “He comes to the studio with this huge duffle bag, carrying all these CDs of mostly crazy world music – African music and things I’ve never heard. He’s a real inspired guy.” Mosley’s jam-oriented approach to music also let to a near voodoo experience on “Maneater”. Recalls Furtado: “Tim was programming a beat and I was singing with a keyboardist and a guitar player. The energy in the room took on this almost pagan-like quality. Suddenly, the speaker started to smoke and then flames shot out. The volume was so loud that the rubber was burning on the speaker. It was very anamalistic.”…..

Daytime, however, was highly domestic. Furtado would spend mornings and afternoons at the beach with her daughter, Nevis, soaking up the Florida sunshine. It proved the perfect balance between work and play. “There’s a spiritual vibe in Miami,” says Furtado. “The sunishe and water keeps everybody really light and friendly. Everyone’s into their bodiestoo. Everyone was nice tanned skin. People walk around in bikinis, even on the street. You feel sexy in Miami – maybe that’s why I made such a sexy album.”

The Coldplay connection came about when Chris Martin and Furtado ran into each other at last year’s MTV Video Music Awards in Miami. When Furtado found out that Martin and Timbaland were big fans of each other’s work, she decided to bring then together soon after in the studio. On “All Good Things”, Martin can be heard at the outset telling Mosley to “give us a sick beat.” The jam that follows, with Furtado and Martin singing the refrain “flames to dust; lovers to friends; why do all good things come to an end,” proves to be one of the album’s most spirited moments. “Why have we stopped?” asks Martin when the jam suddenly comes to a halt, leading to much laughter and Martin’s quick-witten rejoinder: “Why do all good jams come to an end?”

Such a spontaneous moment would never be found on Davis Foster – produced Celine Dion album. It’s too loose, anarchic and uncontrolled for the Schmaltz King and Ersatz Queen of MOR pop. But for Furtado and Timbaland, the eclectic songbird and the studio innovator, spontaneity comes as naturally as breathing. “That’s what it’s about,” says Furtado, of her and Mosley’s unbridled approach to recording. “It’s about people coming by for late-night jam sessions and having fun. It’s not rocket science – we’re making music here.”

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