Nelly Furtado
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172 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
Nelly Furtado’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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No, I couldn't make it that time.
But anyways, yeah, I do love him a lot. He's a great guy. And I think that, I mean, he's done a lot for the music industry. You know, Toronto was a secret for a long time. A secret that I loved as well, growing up there and making music there in my teens, my early 20s. But now it's just so nice. He kind of really put Toronto on a map in a different kind of way in Canada in general.
But anyways, yeah, that's how that went down.
I kind of wish I did, though, because I saw a video and he looked pretty cute. He had a yellow track suit or something. And he looked good.
But then I'm like, what would I have worn? Pink? Because it would have been all videos of yellow and then, you know, like what color.
That's what performers do. You always think about what things like pop, especially in pop music, you think about what things look like too.
Yes, a chambermaid. Was that your first job? Yes. Well, that's a good question. My very first job was actually, it was the same year. I did like, I would jump over the fence at my childhood home and I would do filing for like a home inspection company. So I would, but I would, it was long hours, but it was helpful, I think, to just sit there and organize. And then I got a job at the motel.
It was called the Robin Hood Motel. Yes. And my mom worked there, my sister, my aunt, my cousin. My mom ran the housekeeping department. She was like the head honcho there. And so she hired me and I would every morning just show up. I mean, harder in the teen years when you're out the night before and then you get there at 6 a.m. And I'm like, where's the coffee?
And my brother was gardening there at the time, too. So we'd be like Saturday mornings like, OK. But it was such a good experience because I worked there for probably 10 summers straight. I even worked there one summer when I thought like after I graduated high school and I went to Toronto and thought I was going to be famous in two months. But reality, you know, like that's not how it works.
Your goals take a while to achieve. Moved back home, worked there again that year when I was going to college again. in my hometown of Victoria. And that was the year where I was like, oh, I wonder if my dreams will come true. But growing up doing that was good because the work ethic. Because when you get into this industry, the hours can be long. When you're starting out, it's a lot of hustling.
That's an interesting question. I think for me in particular, my parents come from these like really, really like
working class roots like my parents are from the Azores Islands and a tiny from a tiny island called San Miguel like from a tiny village you know farmers you know like just they were already like picking beans and like carrying their water from you know the main water fountain to home like when they were like 10 or 11 you know what I mean they're already working at the farm by the time they're 12 and so that's my that's where I come from so you really can't
get bougie on people when you come from those, you get canceled in your family. You can get canceled. So you can't, you can't even go there. Like I have no business like acting like I'm better than anyone.
Sorry, I have a story in my mind. Because she said, I remember, you know, be careful what you wish for, right? Because she's like, oh, mom, yeah, you should start working again. And then a year later, she's like, why are your hair appointments five hours long and your nail appointments are three hours? Like, you've kind of become a diva, mom.
you know this is my job you're like sweetie you know mom nelly now you're about to meet nelly furtado the superstar she said what do you mean you can't pick me up at the airport anymore i'm sorry my hair appointment went over she was sorry she was livid i'm obsessed oh my god it's like well you want a mom to be back at work here this i'm doing my thing i'm back to work babe it's what it takes yeah that is amazing she's like god damn it
It's so funny because I always find it interesting what people cling to in stories. So I did a general interview with my daughter for people. But then that became a thing like, oh, this is the story. But then I realized, oh, I get it. It's like... I wrote a song about it in 2003. I think it was my second album. And yeah, it's called Powerless. And it's like, paint my face in your magazines.
Make it look lighter than it seems. Paint me over with your dreams. Like, shove away my ethnicity. So at the time... It's more about the idea of, okay, wait, like I'm in this business. Like when you're young and you're 22, 23, it's like, it's a whirlwind, right? Like all of a sudden becoming successful at the career you always dreamed of.
And if you're in it for the music, like I always was, I think that all that other stuff with the visuals and the aesthetics and the,
oh wow, they like you and you look great on the red carpet, but then the opposite is true as well, and just kind of questioning it all, but it is true, yeah, I'd bring my own clothes to photo shoots, because I was like a girl, like I was 21, 22, young girl, but yeah, you'd see, at the time, I think, yeah, the beauty standard was a bit different, so I think that they would Photoshop a lot, and just kind of like, oh, I thought I had hips, but it's hard anyways, because when you see yourself on TV for the first time, you know, you always look different on the camera,
And it can be a little jarring to be on TV and at the spotlight that much at a young age, I guess.
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