Nelly Furtado
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172 appearances
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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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and uh you'd go to the gym and you'd see like i don't know like kids i guess who are doing i don't know if they're working with disney or what they're working but you know it's the place that people went to make their dreams come true where they would stay when they weren't yet living in la so i sat on a sofa and uh picked up my guitar and i wrote three songs that day and uh and the third one i wrote was i'm like a bird
And I'm telling you, the one I wrote before was trash. It was a really bad song. Really corny, not good. Yeah, you never know.
My manager was at the studio. Yeah. My manager, Chris, was at the studio. And he's like, oh, I want to hear what you wrote today. So I played him the three songs. And I was convinced the corny one was good. It was really bad. I can sing it for you. Wait, please sing it for me. I'll sing it in a second. It's really crazy. No. But anyways, so... How corny are we talking?
So this is the one that I thought was better than I'm like a bird. It goes, okay, wait. It's like, he was cock sure and I was a pussy. Had it in the corner, I couldn't come out. He was cock sure and I was a pussy. Had it in the corner, I couldn't come out. And I think the end was like, here kitty kitty. Like I swear to God, I'm not even kidding.
I thought that was better than I'm like a bird, which I then was the third song on the demo that I'd made that morning. And my manager said, I don't know. Yeah, okay. I think the bird one's really good. They both had bird themes. One was cocksure. It's like a rooster.
Might be quite good right after.
Well, that song was about that. So that song, I did want to break up, you know, with that guy. So I kind of wrote the song. Oh my God, did you write the song and then break up with him? Well, I sent it to him and he said, hey.
i feel like i heard the song like what's up nelly yeah i did yeah so you no context you just sent him the song well i was like oh this is my latest thing yeah no but no i think i ended up that i ended that relationship on tour but it was literally it wasn't very it was like from a pay phone you know on tour like i was with my band you know like it was one of those moments but it's very new
it's kind of like you know your college boyfriend right you know and then you move on so that was my college is like making music and touring so I only did one year of college so then I met him around that time so yeah I had to make my dreams come true and you had to I had things to do and places to be so but like not like a bat as sad as it is to get broken up with for him it is kind of iconic that there is a man out there that can be like that song is about me like that is pretty fucking cool
Oh, I like this question. I've been dumped before. Okay. Yeah. Only once. Oh. Yeah, it is a flex. No, that's not true. Two or three times, but more like when I was younger. But but yeah, like being having your heart actually broken by someone that doesn't want to be with you anymore really hurts really badly. So yeah, it's really, really upsetting.
And I hadn't experienced that till like much later in life till quite recently in the last five years. And that was really hard for me because I wanted to hang on. I wanted to hang on and I didn't get it. And I built up a lot of expectations and things based on things that maybe were more about me and selfishness. Right. And then it was like, OK, like when do I come to grips with reality?
But I've also left. Yes, I've been the end breaker upper. Yeah.
Oh, my God. It's hard. It's easier to break up with someone than to have somebody dump you. Being dumped is the worst. It is pretty hard, I think. No, no, no. It's the best, though. Because then you grow. Because then you go. It's that whole thing. Like, you've got to hit dirt, man. You've got to hit dirt. You've got to hit rock bottom. I have hit rock bottom before. And it's beautiful.
Because then I just come out so strong. Right. And it's good. And I'm not saying it's, like, perfect. And I'm like, oh, yeah. You know, we wear our wounds, don't we? Like our wounds never really go away, I don't think. We can work on them. You know what I mean?
But like, that's okay. You know, you have stuff to deal with, stuff to work through. But yeah, I think... I think it could be a good place.
Bottom of like, oh, you know what I go back to a lot? Oh, he's just not that into you. Just look up if you're ever struggling with somebody who's broken up with you or somebody, even anybody, a flingationship, something like that. And you feel they're not giving you the attention you want and something's off. Just like go look up quotes from. he's just not that into you, it is so healing.
Do you do that often? I've done it before. I think twice in my life. Where I'm like, oh.
So I really did kind of base that off of a woman that was friends with at the time that was like a colleague was like, engaged to her and she was a knockout and just really was, did personify that Maneater energy.
And, um, what at the time, what I really, really felt at the time when I was making that whole album with Timbaland and when we were making Maneater as I did feel very, I was actually only about 26 or something when I wrote that song, but I felt There's something really empowering about masculine and feminine energy together. You know what I mean? When somebody embodies both.
And I was trying to capture that in a song. And I really feel that when I play it live. It feels primal. It feels like it's for everyone. It's almost like a verb. Like you're man-eatering.
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