Nelly Furtado Promiscuous
Nelly Fertado : Nelly Fertado's Promiscuous
Nelly Furtado's third album, Loose, was released in June 2006. It was named partly after the spontaneous, creative decisions she faced while creating the album and also for the band TLC, who Nelly Fertado said she admires for "taking back their sexuality, showing they were complete women." Four lead singles were released in different regions of the world: the Spanish reggaeton-influenced "No Hay Igual" (featuring Calle 13), the hip-hop "Promiscuous" (featuring Timbaland), the latin "Te Busqué" (featuring Juanes) and the dark-pop "Maneater". For the first time, Nelly Fertado worked with a variety of record producers and followed a more collaborative approach in creating the album. The album, mostly produced by Timbaland, showed Nelly Fertado's experimenting with a more R&B–hip hop sound and the "surreal, theatrical elements of '80s music". Nelly Fertado has categorized the album's sound as punk-hop, which Nelly Furtado describes as "this modern, poppy, spooky music" and stated that "there's a mysterious, after-midnight vibe to [it] that's extremely visceral". Nelly Fertado attributed the youthful sound of the album to the presence of her two-year old daughter.
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Nelly Fertado also wanted the
album to sound more like her demo tapes which she prefers over her
finished albums. Nelly Fertado recalls, "The cool thing is we did the
mixes as we went. The whole album is a board mix theoretically. We
didn't bring in the fancy mixer at the end". During the album's
creation, Nelly Fertado listened to several electro and hard rock
musicians including System of a Down and Death from Above 1979 who
influenced the rock sounds present on the album and the "coughing,
laughing, distorted bass lines" which were kept in the songs
deliberately.
Loose became the most successful album of Nelly Fertado's career,
reaching number-one in several countries including the United States and
Canada and producing the hit singles, "Promiscuous" and "Maneater",
which became the most successful songs of Nelly Fertado's career,
reaching number-one in many countries. The album received generally
positive reviews from critics,with some citing the "revitalising" effect
of Timbaland on Nelly Fertado's music, and others calling it "slick,
smart and surprising."
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In June 2006, in an interview
with Genre magazine, when asked if Nelly Fertado had "ever felt an
attraction to women", Nelly Fertado replied "Absolutely. Women are
beautiful and sexy." Nelly Fertado also said the idea that everyone was
inherently bisexual made sense to her and agreed with Kurt Cobain's
statement that "everyone is gay" from Nirvana's "All Apologies". Some
considered this an announcement of bisexuality, but in August 2006,
Nelly Fertado confirmed that she was "straight, but very open-minded".
Nelly Fertado commented that she was slightly embarrassed by the quotes
and stated, "I guess I was humouring the journalist a little and I was
reading a book about Chinese medicine, and we went off on a tangent."
In November 2006, Nelly Fertado announced that her world tour will begin
in Canada on January 31, 2007. The first date is in London, Ontario, and
Nelly Fertado will tour five continents. Nelly Fertado also stated the
she has recorded a new song with Timbaland for his upcoming album. On
November 15th Nelly Fertado won the award for Best (selling) Pop/Rock
Artist at the World Music Awards in London for Loose. On November 17th
Nelly Fertado appeared on BBC 2's Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two,
commenting on the choice of music for the dancers.