Nelly Furtado
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172 appearances
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
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No, not really. I think I was like just making that record in Miami. I was feeling the vibes. I was feeling myself. I'd spent all day in a bathing suit, like playing with my kid on the beach. You know, like I was feeling myself in the sun to be totally honest. And I was newly single. See? Every time. God. Newly single brought us a man-eater promiscuous girl.
Yeah. That's amazing. That just kind of had fresh energy. That kind of seeing the world through new, like, I guess, red colored glasses.
Yeah, the energy is very, like, red and, like, passionate. But also with promiscuous, I actually didn't write that chorus. It was Timbaland's idea. It was? Yeah, it was. And then I sat down and finished the lyrics with Attitude, this amazing rapper that he was working with at the time. And I was hesitant, but my good friend Jim Bean sat me down.
He's like, I think this is authentic and I really like this energy and you sound great on it. And I did know that I laced up the verses and I sounded good and all that. Now when I sing it, I love it.
That's a good question. And I will also give a quick shout out to the music I grew up on. So Salt-N-Pepa, TLC. Trailblazers, those girl groups in the late 90s when I was a teenager. I was coming of age 14, 15. I was blessed to have that music to listen to. It was like Mary J. Blige, TLC, Salt-N-Pepa, and they were giving this empowered sexuality and choice. It was about choice.
It was about I'm in control of my choices. And that was the energy we wanted to capture with a song like Promiscuous. It's a choice. It's an even playing field. I think to feel sexy, to feel sensual, you have to spend time on yourself. You have to spend time alone. You have to spend time, just you have to tap into pleasure, which is joy, right? Joy is pleasure, right? So if you really feel...
And embodied, like in your body, like I'm not gonna lie, like I feel pretty sexy when I'm like dancing, you know? Like I'm in the dance studio because it's such an act of self-love to apply your mind and body to something like choreography and to just be, to feel that, I would say it's like almost like an equilibrium. And I think from there you can feel very confident, you know?
And I think it's something you develop. I think your sexuality is something you develop, you know? And when you start, you know, whenever and you're,
No, I mean, I think people can teach you, you know, like I think you can grow in relationships. Like I think you can grow and you can kind of like pick up things as you go and like that ebb and flow again. But at the end of the day, yeah, you got to feel, you got to feel good.
I'm changing. I used to. Yes, Alex. And? I'm a lover. I love love. I need muses. I'm a muses girl. Like I need, I think it's because I'm an artist. I'm a writer. I create. And it's like, I grew up thinking and just feeling like I'm, I love like lovers. Like I love to, I love the idea of being just really inspired and the joy in dating and like that. It's like there's nothing like that.
But I also enjoy my solitude so much that I have had people ask me, like friends, like colleagues, like, Why are you even in a relationship? You have so much going on in your mind. You should just date yourself. How are you even able to be with someone? And it is true. I like my solitude so much that sometimes it is hard for me to be in a relationship. Because I'm just like, ugh.
It's too hard, yeah. It's like I've always felt more comfortable to be more like an enjoyable kind of like, I'm not going to say part-time. I don't know what to say.
Oh, a flingationship.
Flingationship. I think it's fun. And just kind of, I don't know, I follow my passions and my lust and my interests too. I do have ADHD and I think it's affected me. Women experience it differently than men.
I was only recently diagnosed but I read a great book and it talked about how even as women with ADHD we can pick partners that kind of make us feel like we're in the passenger seat because you want somebody else to make all the decisions for us and we just want to coast right interesting and I found that really interesting when I read that because I was like oh yeah and I think when I'm on my own I'm more able to kind of navigate to my whole life in a way that works for my brain and for my comfort levels oh but I do love love and I do love falling in love and
I find that fun still, but I think my priorities have changed.
Yes, and you want to stay yourself. I think that's the most important thing. I have had a tendency to lose myself in relationships.
Oh, I need a sip of water.
Yeah. You know, I don't know. Isn't it sort of like life, you know? And then again, we talk about this experience even when you're in your 20s and you're growing. Everybody, I mean, I always wanted to have a family, you know what I mean, and have children. And we all have that dream, you know, of just kind of settling down and like, oh, now I'm at the Yellow Brick Road. This is so great.
Oh, wait, and now I'm at the Yellow Brick Road, right? And it comes in all these variations. I think I just had that feeling like I had finally kind of arrived at that, you know, yellow brick road. And it was like going to be that for me. And then it turned out that it wasn't. And that's why it hit so hard. You know what I mean? I absolutely.
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