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Three years ago, Nelly Furtado was just a woman named Kim in a playwriting class at the University of Toronto's School of Continuing Studies.</div>
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"Only the teacher knew my other life as a singer," says the award-winning singer/songwriter, whose sixth album, <em><b><span style="font-family: Thread-00001b30-Id-00000016;">The Ride</span></b></em>, marks her long-awaited return to pop. "My name was just Kim, which is my middle name."</div>
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And no one recognized her?<br />
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Furtado shakes her head. "No, not until the end. I had a couple of really good friends by the end – and they were, like, 'We didn't know it was you!'"</div>
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Today, Furtado's long dark hair has been shorn in a pixie cut. She appears shy, rarely making eye contact, turning her small hands over in her lap. She speaks about her music in a meek, awkward way, as if it's a new boyfriend whose affection she remains unsure of. There's little of the bold confidence one might expect from one of Canada's greatest singing talents. The artist who has sold more than 40 million records worldwide has been struggling with an existential crisis, questioning what her life was about and what she wanted next. "I was in search of personal autonomy," she says. "It was about me finding a more simplified version of myself."</div>
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Sounds as if it's a premature midlife crisis by most standards. Furtado is young – 38 years old. But it's understandable. Everything in her life has been accelerated.</div>
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"I had a very fast-paced life since I was about 21, professionally and personally," she offers, referring to when her debut album, <em><b><span style="font-family: Thread-00001b30-Id-00000016;">Whoa, Nelly!</span></b></em>, with its chart-topping folk pop single, I'm Like a Bird, catapulted her to worldwide fame and a Grammy.</div>
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"I was a mother by the time I was 25. I owned my own home by the age of 22, 23." Every three years, she put out a new album. "I had to put on the brakes."</div>
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<em><b><span style="font-family: Thread-00001b30-Id-00000016;">The Ride</span></b></em>, released at the end of this month, is a testament to her rediscovery of creative meaning. During the five-year hiatus since her last album, <em><b><span style="font-family: Thread-00001b30-Id-00000016;">The Spirit Indestructible</span></b></em>, she has been destructible, walking away from "a long-term business relationship … somebody who was a father figure to me," questioning the meaning of her life, she confesses, and leaning on family members to help her regain confidence and come in from the storm.</div>
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At her nadir in the summer of 2014, she bolted to London, England, to work with Mark Taylor, who had produced <em><b><span style="font-family: Thread-00001b30-Id-00000016;">Broken Strings</span></b></em>, a duet with Furtado and British singer James Morrison in 2008. The day after she arrived, she wrote <em><b><span style="font-family: Thread-00001b30-Id-00000016;">Phoenix</span></b></em>, the first song for <em><b><span style="font-family: Thread-00001b30-Id-00000016;">The Ride</span></b></em>, a ballad about resurfacing. "I built myself a life raft – come back, come back," she offers in a whispery voice to explain the experience.</div>
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"I don't always see myself clearly," she says of her family's help during that period of darkness. "Other people see you. They might remind me that being an entertainer, being a singer, is very positive to do and spend your time doing. Sometimes, you need reminders."</div>
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Really? She doubted her talent?</div>
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"My singing teacher, who works with all kinds of people, told me every singer hates their voice," she says flatly, turning to look at me with turquoise eyes beneath a thick fringe of false eyelashes.</div>
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She hates her voice?</div>
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"I don't hate my voice," she shoots back. "I don't think I have a particularly remarkable instrument. I think I'm lucky because I write songs and sing. That helps. Of course, you can sit there all day and criticize yourself and feel less adequate as an entertainer."</div>
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The playwriting class at U of T was all part of a creative odyssey Furtado embarked upon, sending herself out into the world, not as a global celebrity, but as a flâneuse at the mercy of inspiration, beauty, creative terror. She took pottery classes at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto, worked in a friend's record store and thrust herself into creative challenges.</div>
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Through Annie Clark (the singer better known as St. Vincent), whom she met in 2012 at the Summer Sonic festival in Tokyo, Furtado was introduced to John Congleton, a Grammy-winning producer and writer in Dallas. "I flew to Texas, cold turkey," she says. She had brought some "garage band tracks" of vocals and a guitar on her laptop. "He didn't like anything. Then, luckily, I remembered this melody – that's the chorus of <em><b><span style="font-family: Thread-00001b30-Id-00000016;">Flatline</span></b></em> – and I kind of sang it to him, and he was, 'Well, I really like that. Let's do that.' He had already booked session players for the next day. No pressure!"</div>
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She laughs for the first time in the interview. "So, I showed him my first draft of the lyrics for <em><b><span style="font-family: Thread-00001b30-Id-00000016;">Flatline</span></b></em> and he was tinkering away at the music, and he said, 'Those are all right, but I think you can do better. I think you can dig a little deeper.' And here I am – this is my sixth album – and I'm kind of, like, 'Wow. Okay.'" </div>
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She welcomed the criticism. "It's about respect. I respected him as a producer. Nothing he does is dictated by commerce. It's about art. I already knew he wasn't going to be impressed by how many top-40 hits I had or something like that. I really like the feeling of terror in the studio. It makes all my synapses fire."</div>
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There's a sense about Furtado of satisfied exhaustion, of having finally found her way back to be in an interview again, in a small room, in a comfy chair, talking about the magic of what she may have begun to doubt. Throughout the conversation, she makes segues to describe some of the songs on the new album, talking about them and their genesis as if they were places she visited on her odyssey. There was that place where "you're not feeling anything any more, and you know something's wrong." It was the genesis of <em><b><span style="font-family: Thread-00001b30-Id-00000016;">Flatline</span></b></em>.</div>
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Another time, she had a profound realization about her whole life. "[The song] <em><b><span style="font-family: Thread-00001b30-Id-00000016;">Tap Dancing</span></b></em> was written because I had a meeting, and someone said, 'Why are you tap dancing? You don't need to tap dance. You are who you are. Period.' And then I realized that I had been tap dancing throughout my entire personal and professional life."</div>
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And by that she means?</div>
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"I mean performing for others."</div>
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To prove what she can do?</div>
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"Yeah," she responds thoughtfully. "Seeking some kind of validation. Or seeking to entertain people rather than seeking stillness and quiet."</div>
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From early on in her life, music entered her head spontaneously, and she never knew why. "I would open my mouth, and melody would fly out. … Sometimes, I would just perform for friends," she says of her childhood, growing up the youngest of three children in a Portuguese-Canadian family in Victoria. "My sister used to say, 'Hey, Nel, make up a song!' And the reason she would ask me to make up a song on the spot like a singing monkey was because it was delightful for her to watch me cry while I sang.</div>
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"I would get welled up with emotion … so obviously, I was connecting to something quite deep within myself, and that's why I don't really think it out; that's the reason why every album is different and why my style is always different."</div>
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When I interviewed Furtado five years ago about <em><b><span style="font-family: Thread-00001b30-Id-00000016;">The Spirit Indestructible</span></b></em>, she was starry-eyed about a spiritual awakening in Kenya, where she continues to work with WE Charity. She was in anti-celebrity mode then, too, and talked about how her then three-year marriage to Demacio Castellon, a sound engineer, and domestic life with her daughter, Nevis, now 13, kept her grounded.</div>
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But then a shift happened. "There are some big changes in my life. … You're thinking one way, and then you make a big change and it alters everything." She is unwilling to elaborate on the upheavals in her personal life. She continues to live in Toronto but recently bought a place in New York, where she often goes on weekends.</div>
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She has learned not to feel compelled to harness the melodies every time they fly into her head, but to see them as part of her life and the way she relates to herself and others.</div>
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Last fall, she collaborated with her friend, the performance artist Ryan McNamara, for an event at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Sitting in a room at a desk with a tape recorder, she "was trying to explore the question of, 'Does the well run out? What is this idea of the muse, of the collective unconscious?' I wanted to prove that there was empathy between people always, like even when you walk by people on the street and you feel connected to them but you don't know why. I think this can be proven with a song, with the songwriting process."</div>
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Every 15 minutes, a new group of participants would enter the room. Furtado would ask them what they had dreamed the night before or what their favourite holiday had been.</div>
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While they talked, she would start to sing. "There was laughter and there were tears," she says of the MoMA PSI installation. "It was really quite transformational for me."</div>
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Last summer, driving around in her car, she would sing what came into her mind; what she was feeling. "Then I would throw it out the window," she says. "It wasn't for recording purposes. It helps when you're going through emotional turmoil, because you can sing yourself to peace. It is my form of meditation."<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></div>
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Nelly Furtado: That was a magical night. I had auditioned to be a part of the Honey Jam showcase in Toronto and I very clearly remember my outfit that I was going to wear, and getting on the subway, getting to Lee's Palace — I kind of had the eye of the tiger. It was the biggest thing that had happened to me. And wow, I got to meet a real famous person there: Jarvis Church, formerly known as Gerald Eaton of the Philosopher Kings.<br />
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Jarvis Church: Nelly did an original song that was kind of like drum and bass and she was singing along to a tape and she just had her eyes closed and was very still, but she had a sincerity to her voice that grabbed me.<br />
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Ebonnie Rowe (Honey Jam founder): At that time, Honey Jam was really an all-urban show. That’s how we started, just very focused on hip-hop and everyone was black. So Nelly really stood out because she was, for one, not black, but she was also very tiny and her style of music was more eclectic. It wasn’t hip-hop, it wasn’t R&B, it was this interesting fusion. <br />
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Furtado: I sang a song called “Like,” which is a song I had with my group at the time called Nelstar, a trip-hop kind of band. Previously I'd only really performed at Cameron House, and I just got up there and sang that song. It was kind of moody, kind of trip-hop alternative kind of vibe. I was probably the only trip-hop performer there. It was mostly rappers and R&B singers that night.<br />
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Rowe: At the beginning of her performance, everyone was talking, but then once they heard her voice, you could hear a pin drop.<br />
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Furtado: We only get three minutes each. At the time, the urban scene in Toronto was growing, I would say. So those seeds were bubbling, growing and there was a tinge in the air because, obviously, the dance and the rave scene was popular, but from the U.K. there were always these really cool trip-hop performances coming to town, and of course hip-hop and R&B. So when I got up onstage I captured the essence of some type of shift or change, something new that was in the air. Maybe there was a uniqueness to that somehow.<br />
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Church: I remember afterwards I was really taken, walked up to her and said, “Hey, let’s make music together.” She said sure [laughs].<br />
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Furtado: My [future] manager, Chris Smith, was so smart because he had Gerald [Jarvis Church] with him, because I didn't know Chris’s face, but I knew Gerald's. So he said, wow that was really good and I just want you to meet my manager, Chris. We exchanged phone numbers and I got to jam with Gerald a few weeks later.<br />
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Church: That was it for me. There was nobody else that I was moved into action by.<br />
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Chris Smith: Rose [Rosina Kazi], an intern [at BMG] at the time said, "Hey, there’s a girl called Nelstar." Rose was persistent about Nelly and her persistence finally paid off — she said she was going to perform at the Honey Jam. As I was going to see Nelly, I invited Jarvis along to check out some new talent. So I didn’t discover her randomly — I was tipped off by Rose, who’s in the group Lal. That’s the story. <br />
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Rowe: In the urban world, it’s very much a boys’ club. There weren’t really any other female promoters in that genre. The guys all hook each other up with guest lists and this sort of thing. For me, I’m doing this show, which I was financing myself, and Chris Smith had come down earlier in the day during the soundcheck to tell me that he was bringing all these people to the show, basically letting me know to put them on the list. I wasn’t feeling well, I’m busy, I’m stressed, and he comes down to inform me of this? So I was like, "Ya but, no [laughs]. This is what the costs are for the tickets and you can get them at the box office." He was really angry, but he had to buy the tickets because he already told all his boys that it’s a done deal. It turned very bountiful for him though because of his enormous success, Chris Smith Management, is the house that Nelly Furtado built.<br />
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Furtado: It was really fantastic and special that I got to meet them. That's how I got started. I <br />
definitely got discovered there, and Gerald discovered me. <b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527931985916828996.post-45269147811751539542017-11-29T21:59:00.004+00:002017-11-29T21:59:38.423+00:00Nelly Furtado photographed at Cosmic Records where she used to work<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527931985916828996.post-58826285095556782352017-11-29T21:47:00.001+00:002017-11-29T21:47:10.452+00:00Nelly Furtado | Photoshoot Taylor Miller 2017<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527931985916828996.post-31396400432044148712017-11-29T21:43:00.003+00:002017-11-29T21:43:48.488+00:00Nelly Furtado attends the Radio Regenbogen Award 2017 at Europapark (April 7,2017)<div style="text-align: center;">
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527931985916828996.post-66876845915820578162017-11-29T21:13:00.002+00:002017-11-29T21:14:30.740+00:00Nelly Furtado | Pride Island in NYC (June 25, 2017)<span class=" _50f4">Nelly Furtado performs during New York City Pride 2017 – Pride Island Festival held at Pier 26 on Sunday (June 25) in New York City.</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527931985916828996.post-30669868665596192282017-11-29T21:00:00.003+00:002017-11-29T21:00:56.154+00:00Nelly Furtado shares a picture of her daughter Nevis during The Chew Show<span aria-live="polite" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Nelly Furtado shares a picture of her daughter Nevis during The Chew Show: <a data-lynx-mode="origin" data-lynx-uri="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2F0CgIVAB3kvg&h=ATM9aIHc44kBdY5LYAnTJGzr7OsQDJ_QAy6bA_vNMlS-lh20FBPqoHEvCoS1KRMqvXly2_Q2Shfy1iapJMBjDTseQZ0iYBLzAIHVTRtLISk1EEegC5nXtK-PhmJM_Dnfg4amfGd9f1K4ABPxC6eKie7PqxzSM-s8GoA4V9ASqw0rAL1Bo38Jdmjn2xADe8me57NfaL5rTf85RKh1DIaJwcjY934b7Pmysx0gu8N560vVzOVHQw" href="https://youtu.be/0CgIVAB3kvg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span>https://youtu.be/</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>0CgIVAB3kvg</a></span></span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527931985916828996.post-44944995372423917582017-11-29T20:56:00.001+00:002017-12-03T19:42:52.131+00:00Nelly Furtado at We Day and We Day FAmily at the Air Canada Center, in Toronto (October 19, 2016)<span class=" _50f4"><span class="_3xgd"><b><u>Nelly Furtado at WE Day Toronto (October 19, 2016)</u></b></span></span><br />
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<b><u>Nelly Furtado at We Day Family (October 19, 2016)</u></b><br />
<span class=" _50f4">“I believe in women. When you inspire, motivation & empower them with opportunity, especially through income, the ripple effect is endless.” </span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527931985916828996.post-1556069278688907522017-11-29T20:48:00.002+00:002017-11-29T20:48:28.753+00:00Nelly Furtado | Fierte MTL Pride (August 18, 2017)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527931985916828996.post-34843503297772460982017-11-29T20:44:00.002+00:002017-11-29T20:44:56.411+00:00Nelly Furtado | Fusion Festival (July 22, 2017)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527931985916828996.post-73079158244014897282017-11-29T20:40:00.002+00:002017-11-29T20:40:49.956+00:00Nelly Furtado | Aboriginal Day Live in Winnipeg (June 21, 2017)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527931985916828996.post-41328967191523297232017-11-29T19:27:00.001+00:002017-11-29T19:27:25.649+00:00Nelly Furtado | Calgary Stampede Coca-Cola Stage (July 10, 2017)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527931985916828996.post-52529396406818869562017-11-29T19:23:00.000+00:002017-12-03T18:58:38.448+00:00Nelly Furtado is dating with Hodgy<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527931985916828996.post-24067425608148278132017-11-28T22:18:00.001+00:002017-11-28T22:18:40.095+00:00Nelly Furtado | Elle Quebec Magazine<div style="text-align: center;">
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Photographs by Brad Torchia
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April 4, 2017
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<br />
Where has the Canadian singer-songwriter been the last five years? Stocking music-shop shelves and rebooting herself. But now she's back—with her sixth album, The Ride.<br />
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If it's been a hot second since you've thought about Nelly Furtado, here's a refresher on the shapeshifting Canadian pop star: One minute she's singing <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roPQ_M3yJTA">flitty acoustic numbers about individuality</a>, and the next she's crafting <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J3vgcE5i2o">sexy R&B-infused bangers with Timbaland</a> about, well, being sexy. Yeah. You remember her. And if it feels like one minute Furtado was there, like in a massive way, and then she wasn't, you're right. This was by design. In 2012, following a run of mildly received albums, she retreated from the spotlight.<br />
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"You need to learn how to say no to survive mentally and emotionally," Furtado says. She went home to Toronto, worked stocking shelves in her friend's record shop, and started scrubbing her own toilet again. She needed to recharge.<br />
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But thanks to friends like Annie Clark of St. Vincent, who introduced her to Grammy-winning producer John Congleton, Furtado wasn't out of the picture for long. The result is the independently released <em>The Ride</em>, Furtado's first album in five years, and another bold, fantastic reinvention. Where once there stood a jazz-minded singer-songwriter or a Top 40-aiming pop star, now exists a boundary-pushing alternative-pop risk-taker. The album is artsy, over-the-top, New Wave-y, quirky. Call it Nelly 3.0. Nowadays, she explains, she'd rather be doing sound installations at Art Basel or an exhibit at MoMA PS1, exploring "the idea of songwriting as a tool for empathy and compassion," than trotting up onstage and dancing in front of thousands of people. "Those are the kind of things I can do just because they bring me joy. Period."<br />
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">GQ: How does it feel to be back in full-on album promotion mode after time
away from the music-industry machine?</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br />
<b>Nelly Furtado:</b> It's kinda weird. I guess you never really stop. I had an
imprint for a while, so I was signing other acts and co-writing and producing
other acts. But it's very different than when you go out promoting your own
album. The first week I did a real promo run for this album I was like, "Whoa!
I'm tired, I forgot what this was like." You have to get your sea legs
back again.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Artists and critics alike like to lean on the 'comeback' narrative. How do
you view your new album in that regard? A comeback? A reinvention?</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br />
I don't think it's a comeback. I'm just heading in a different direction.
Really my curiosity guides me in my career and in my life. I'm a bit of a
navigator. I don't know if it's because I'm Portuguese—we have some pretty
famous navigators, if you go through your history—but I have that navigator
inside me and it's what drives me. It's curiosity. I dunno—things have been
just going in my direction in terms of a more artistic path. It's not that I
wasn't going on an artistic path before. It's not that I never led my creative
pursuits.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">And that also involves searching for creative people who push you.</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br />
I feel like you get what you give in the universe. And shortly after I met John
[Congleton] I met Dev Hynes from Blood Orange and I did a really cool
collaboration [<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy4WSWX3bgU"><span style="color: #ff3c36; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;">"Hadron
Collider"</span></a>] for his album. He introduced me to a new way of
approaching the world as an artist: Let the creativity come to you rather than
chasing things. Organically just meeting cool, interesting people led to me
feeling confident enough to complete this album. And now I'm feeling really
great about it. It's been really cathartic for me personally because the lyrics
are super hard-knocks honest. "Life beat me up a lot and I'm going to talk
about it!"</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">"Palaces," in particular, is a brutally honest song. You're not beating
around the bush about feeling that fame and celebrity are a farce.</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br />
No, I'm not! And I wrote that near Mombasa, Kenya, actually—a coastal town. I
was inspired by some of the architecture and I was really thinking about this
concept of façades: the façade versus what lies beneath. And this idea that
palaces are supposed to create change and so you're building palaces around a
problem. Even a body: If your body is not structurally sound, you can't just
build muscle around it and not expect yourself to still feel sore.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">It sounds like you're talking about your own identity struggles in your own
life and career.</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br />
One hundred percent. The problem is if you have output all the time you're not
inputting into yourself. You can become plagued by ambition. Our society
affirms and rewards that. Our emotional growth as human beings is so different
than this outward mark of success.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">You talk of following your creative muse as something relatively new. But
you've always seemed an artist who follows her instinct.</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br />
I'm definitely idiosyncratic. And I think that's why I can't relate to the
concept of branding. I can't. It just doesn't feel like me. Why put yourself in
a box? It's so limiting.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">I've experimented with boxes. But then I get bored. I put out <i>Loose</i>
and I enjoyed dancing onstage and singing songs within the confines of an
urban-pop context. But at the same time, after awhile, I just wanted to go away
and create something new again. I never like to repeat myself. Repetition is
very boring. That extends to my hobbies as well. They change all the time. I
did this 10K race last year, and although I trained for it incredibly hard and
I enjoyed the process, I then was like "Now what do I do?" I'll try a
hobby and then just move onto something else.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">"As a woman in this business, when you get successful, you feel
obligated to the people you've hired to help support you. The nurturer in you
wants to just please everybody and keep saying yes to everything."</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">You were quite young when your career took off.</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br />
It was a whirlwind. I'm grateful that social media wasn't around back then.
Because I think it must be extremely difficult for artists coming of age in the
spotlight. And it's true: I was 20 when I signed my record deal and got on the
road right away. A lot happened very quickly. Having to mature in the spotlight
is always interesting. You're going through stages and phases in front of
everyone. Which is strangely kind of alienating. You're made to feel like
you're the only one who changes. But everybody changes! No fair!</span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">This album has a song about that topic: "Tap Dancing." It's
speaking to the idea that it's easy for an entertainer or celebrity to crash
and burn. And the reason why is because you don't get to give any energy to
yourself. So of course you're going to crash and burn. I say, "I shouldn't
have to dance at all for you to love me." I shouldn't have to take this
tap-dance into my personal life. When the stage ends and the lights shut off, I
should be able to be still and quiet and work on my internal world. But the
problem is a lot of people never get to do that because they're too busy. And
they never get a chance to say no to anything.</span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">I always say that as a woman in this business, when you get successful, you
feel obligated to the people that you've hired to help support you. And you
feel the nurturer in you wants to just please everybody and keep saying yes to
everything.</span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span>
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">That involved extremes for you: going back and working at your friend's
record store. Even cleaning your own bathroom. Very method.</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br />
I think I was really "in search of." What is really being grounded?
Grounded is not just "I'm going to take some time off." I wanted to
clean my own bathroom again and wash my own laundry again. I really missed
normal life. I wanted to make it as isolated as I possibly could. It really
helped me, honestly. It sounds silly but it kind of saved me.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">For a long time you may have been playing to expectations as to who and
what people thought Nelly Furtado the pop star was.</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br />
Any business model works on expansion. Especially in our Westernized way of
looking at things. "If you're not expanding, you're failing." You
can't just break even. The problem when you combine art and commerce is that
artistic expansion is never the same as commercial expansion. That's where the
dissonance lies. I always knew what I wanted to hear, and I've always written
my own songs, so that really helped. There was never any magician in the back
corner formulating my image. But that said, when you have success in the music
business you undeniably feel pressure to produce, for sure.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">I get the sense though you're the happiest you've ever been.</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br />
That's one hundred percent safe to say. I just feel true happiness comes from
emerging from struggle. It comes from being willing to look at the uglier sides
of life and take the journey within. Really look at things in a truthful and
honest way. That's very difficult. But once you do and take the leap to accept
it all it's very rewarding. I'm very happy now. Experiences make you rich. Even
pain. Like I say in "Pipe Dreams": "I want to feel the good and
bad in everything… even when it hurts."</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span>
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">The Jane Hotel leans against the West Side Highway in New York's West
Village, and somehow manages to be a dust receptacle for all of the debris that
flies off car tires just a few feet away. It boasts the kind of old-timey decor
ideal for horror films and themed birthday parties—artfully distressed, vintage
objets d'art are de rigueur; the only occupants of the hotel beds have
nondescript European accents with children in tiny hats. This is where Nelly
Furtado and I agree to meet for our first date. I've known Nelly for years,
although a random lunch last year sealed our fate as potential Noisey first
date material when we both ordered the exact same meal (sautéed kale with dried
black olives and a side of escarole soup).</span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">This date was supposed to be epic, considering it was her first date since
becoming single last summer (she married in 2008), but we didn't delve too
deeply into that single status because who the hell discusses exes on their first
date? So here we were, reunited on a stormy evening in the midst of her promo
run for her newly released sixth studio album <i>The Ride. </i>The project is a
nod to the rollercoaster ride known as the life of Nelly Furtado, and in
speaking with her it's clear she's always collecting unique experiences. We
were supposed to grab a drink and some appetizers at The Jane's Café Gitane,
only there is no longer a Café Gitane (unbeknownst to us). We then both wanted
tea, but they didn't have that either, so we pulled a gangster move and ordered
from Seamless. We decided to wait in the dusty upstairs quarters that were once
RuPaul's bedroom—back when they allowed boarders—later converted into a bar.
The liquor bottles bore yellowing labels, and the wine had turned to balsamic
vinaigrette. You could write your name with your finger on the bar top. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">We're both severely allergic to dust. Nelly starts sneezing; I'm developing
hives. We open the door to the rooftop, and the monsoon-like rain sprays us. I
back up and attempt to sit on a sofa, but it has a broken leg. "Kathy,
look out!" Nelly shouts, and I jump up before the sofa collapses.
Basically Nelly Furtado saved my life… right before she almost blinded me. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">After almost requiring an EPI pen and medical assistance, we head back
downstairs to wait for Seamless, and post up at the only bar left at The Jane.
A few patrons stare at my date, obvious fans, though the biggest fan of all
walked right up to her. It was a cockroach the size of a Yorkshire Terrier, and
as soon as Nelly eyes it she starts screaming at the top of her lungs. Her
makeup artist pulls a spray bottle from her rolling luggage and begins wildly
spraying the air, shooting me right in the eyes. The burn was so intense that I
began coming up with names for my Seeing Eye Dog. I learned the bottle
contained only sage and rose water, which I plan to carry as substitute teargas
from now on. Need I remind you, this was all before we even started our date.
Luckily I regain my sight in time for our food order, and we move to a large
open room with a fireplace to begin our actual date. We did talk about one ex—a
rapper who broke her heart—along with the time she gifted St. Vincent a giant
cutout of her head. Potential blindness aside, Nelly Furtado is the best date
ever.</span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;"></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">Noisey: So now that you're in New York so much—like two weekends a month—do
you consider yourself a New Yorker yet?</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">
<b>Nelly Furtado:</b> Eh. No, not yet, but it's starting to feel more like
home. I was here for a couple snow days, so I've officially gotten sad in New
York because of the weather. So yeah, I'm starting to feel a little more
familiar with the city. It is starting to feel like a home away from home.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">Where's the other home?</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">
I mostly live in Toronto.</span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">
<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">I just visited Toronto for the first time. The needle thing, I called it
the Drake needle because that's where he did his <i>Views</i> album cover. I
can't tell you how offended people were!</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">
The CN Tower! Who'd you say it to?</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">A Canadian.</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">
I can't believe you said that! </span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">
<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">It was so innocent, but it was like the equivalent of calling the White
House "Obama's house" to a Republican. </span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">
Yeah! That's so funny. "Drake lives there! That's Drake's house, the CN
Tower!"</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">Now that your schedule is completely insane, do you have any downtime?</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">
I mean, yeah. I love downtime. I love to catch up with friends and make music.
I like going shopping. I particularly enjoy going vintage shopping. I try to
get out and see things. I just went to go see a play that my teacher put on in
Toronto. She's a playwright.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">Oh, because you were taking playwriting classes, right? Are you still doing
that?</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">
No, I did that last year. I'm not doing it currently because I'm too busy right
now to get to class every week. </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">So which friend are you in your friend group? The mom, the reasonable one,
the wild one?</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">
I can be like the mom to everybody apparently. I'll make everybody's plates and
put food on peoples' plates and stuff, but there's a side to me that's really
fun and extreme. I'm either like full-on or totally nothing. For instance, even
if I don't go out all the time, if I do choose to go out, I'm likely to stay
out really late because I don't want the night to end. It's never over, you
know? I just keep going and keep going, late, late, late! I've always been like
that since I was a kid. But then other times, I just want to do something
really quiet and chill. So, I don't know. But I think I definitely make my
friends laugh—I'm kind of a goofball. I like to laugh with my friends, and it's
usually super silly. </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">I want to talk about you giving Annie Clark your head.</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">
</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">That's a good story! So I went to Japan on tour, and it was called the
Summer Sonic Music Festival. We shared a stage—like we played the same
stage—and afterwards, I got to meet [Annie]. She was really nice, and she came
by my dressing room to say hello. My room was full of shoes and jewelry and
clothes and I thought, "This is the most anti-rockstar dressing room ever,
and here I am with my idol rockstar babe, Annie Clark!" I was so nervous.
She ended up saying that I looked really nice in this cardboard cutout of my
head that was in my dressing room that we had kind of lugged around since
Tokyo. We got it in Singapore or something from the record label, and it was in
our kit. It was funny. So she goes, "You look really beautiful in that
photo!" and then naturally, I said, "Thank you! Would you like it?
You can take it!" And I gave her a cardboard cutout of my head. And she
looked at me—she's so polite with those Southern manners—and she's like,
"Yeah, sure. Really? Sure, thanks!" Inside she's probably like,
"Oh my God." But at least she didn't forget me!</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">She also kept your head for quite some time!</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">
Well, she said she did, yeah. The next time I talked to her about it, she was
like, "Yeah, it's kind of weird! I feel like the last time I was in my
storage room, I saw your head!" <i>[Laughs.]</i> Oh my God, so
embarrassing! It was just nerves! I just was like on weird, starstruck nerves.
I can be a real fangirl when it comes to certain people. Sometimes hits you
when you least expect it.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">Who was another artist/celebrity that you fanned out for?</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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One time I was in a movie theater in Florida, and I realized I was standing
right behind Michael Moore, the director, in the popcorn line. I turned around
and I introduced myself and I said, "Hi, I'm Nelly! I'm a singer. It's
nice to meet you!" I think I said I'm from Canada and he's like, "Oh,
let's sing 'O, Canada' together! I love Canada!" And then we sang "O,
Canada" in the popcorn line together. Then I got an autograph for my
brother. </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">What's a crazy thing that a fan has done when they've run up on you?</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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One time in Mexico City, a fan climbed a couple stories up onto the roof so
that they could knock on my dressing room door, but the cool thing is they
weren't creepy, they were just really sweet! He was like, "Hello, can I
please have a photo!" and I was like, "Sure!" and I took the
photo and then he just took off. </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">He could've fallen! Didn't you have a story of you falling once?</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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I did fall off stage! It was one of my first tours in the US and we were in New
Orleans. I had never been to New Orleans, and I didn't see any of the city
because I was sick all day inside, and I mustered enough energy to get on stage
that night for the show because the show must go on! I already was delivering
what I felt was a very sub-par performance; my voice was not there 100 percent.
And at that moment in the most quiet section of "I'm Like A Bird," I
tripped over my guitar player's monitor, went forward, and I kind of did a full
flip about seven feet down and crashed in between the gate and the audience.
There was a mark of like chainlinks on my back in a bruise the next week.
Because I already felt so horrible about the show and then I fell, the first
thing I said was, "It only gets better from here, folks!" I think my
band thought I died because they were like, "She was there and now she's
not! Oh my God! She fell off the stage and hit her head!" But I was fine.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">So it's safe to say in that instance that you were not like a bird and you
didn't fly away?</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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Nope, couldn't fly! It was just a thud, a somersault thud. Like, it was the
craziest fall.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">So you're not one of those people who does extreme sports?</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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Eh, not really. I'm so not interested in bungee jumping, not interested in
sky-diving, not interested in any of that because, I don't know. I'm not scared
to try certain things, though. Like, I did zip-lining this summer. The heights
were pretty high, and I felt fine about it. I went to Quebec to do that. I
don't know. Extremes? No, I'm probably more comfortable with reading a book or
going to watch a play. I guess I take in life in a kind of different way or at
a different pace. I did do a 10K last year! I just signed up one day. All my
decisions are usually spontaneous. I'm like, "I think I need to sign up
for a 10K!" and I literally signed up for a 10</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">K
that was six months away. Then I quickly found a 5K that was three months away
so that I could train for the 10K. Then after that, I'm like, "Eh, I don't
know if I want to keep running right now. I'm gonna try something else." </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">Being married, do you
still go on dates with your husband?</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;"> Well, I'm actually
single now, since July. But in regard to dates, I think spontaneity can be
really romantic.</span><b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">What's a fun date for
Nelly Furtado?</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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I think going to a concert is a fun date. It depends on what concert. Maybe if
it's like a show or something. Maybe if we go out and walk around and just have
a fun day and let the day take you where it takes you. Anything with
spontaneity I think is fun. I'm very dreamy and I'm a hopeless romantic. I'm
gonna sound like a such a dork but I love that movie with Ethan Hawke, <i>Before
Sunrise</i>. Oh my God, I watched all three! I love this concept of how space
and time can stop sometimes, because I think it's true—there's something about
humans and space and time and connections. I think you can feel really connected
to somebody you just met. <i>Before Sunrise</i> really eloquently showcases
that there are soul connections between people that you can't understand, and I
don't think they're meant to be understood. </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">So concerts and
dreamscapes. </span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;"><br />
And nature. Like a hike or something. It's fun to have social activity but not
too much, because if you're never alone with your date, nothing happens.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">Do you remember your first
date as a kid?</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;"><br />
I was 14, and it was with the coolest rapper in the city, Kiley Hendriks. He
went on to be in Swollen Members as K-Prevail. </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">You met him at a food
court, right?</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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Yes! I feel like we met in a food court, and then he asked me to rap on his
album but I sang, I didn't rap. It was a weird mathematical equation like,
"You can sing on my album if you write a rap for me." I was like
write a rap? Am I a ghostwriter? So I went home and wrote a rap, and came back
the next day and rapped it in front of McDonald's with all his friends. I was
really cool and everybody liked it and instead of moving forward with this
abstract recording that was happening, he said, "You wanna go out to get
something to eat tomorrow?" So he took me to some little spot after
school, and we had sweet potato fries. That was my first time having sweet
potato fries, so I thought he was the coolest person in the whole universe. And
he smelled like patchouli. He was the cool hippie rapper, and I was so
enamored.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">That's the cutest story!
Do you remember the rap?</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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Not at all. I gotta find those old books. </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">Were you the type to write
poems for guys you liked?</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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Oh yeah! Because then Kiley broke my heart. He just stopped talking to me a
couple dates later, and I guess we weren't going out anymore and I was so
broken-hearted. He was like my first puppy love heartbreak. I wrote like 20
songs about him in my bedroom. He helped birth the R&B singer in me! He
really did. I was just like, "Well fine!" I was mad about it, and I
had so much to say about it… in my bedroom, by myself. I so clearly remember
writing all these songs. It was my first heartbreak, and I was 14 and I loved
R&B and hip-hop: It was the perfect breeding ground for practicing
songwriting. </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">Honestly, his legacy is
not going to be Swollen Members anymore. It's going to be birthing the R&B
singer in you.</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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Well, I would have never started writing raps if it wasn't for him. Then later
on in life, I probably would have never been able to convincingly do any urban
or rap tracks ever.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">Oh my God, Prevail caused
all of this!</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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He really did! He was a big part of my life! <i>[Laughs.]</i></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">Do you think you would
ever write another rap again?</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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Yeah, for sure. I've experimented with it before. I've always been obsessed and
interested in what rappers are doing. I find rappers in their daily lives are
always rapping and always putting together words in a poetic way. Sometimes
when they just say normal things, it sounds like they're rapping or singing and
I find that fascinating. It's really cool the way words can be weaved together.
I've been writing songs with Hodgy from Odd Future and when we work and stuff,
I'm always just really fascinated by the way he puts things together.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">Besides rap, you can also
sing in Hindi, right? That clip of you singing "Kabhi Kabhie" is
awesome. </span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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Oh yeah, I learned as a child to sing two Hindi songs because my friend's
father asked me to sing at this cultural event because they didn't have a
singer to sing these two songs. [My dad taught] me to sing them phonetically,
and I knew the meaning too. He'd write it all out phonetically for me and he'd
show me the words. It was a beautiful thing to have that kind of education. I
was really lucky growing up in Victoria. I made a lot of friends with different
kids whose parents are also from other countries like mine, who were from
Portugal. So we bonded in that—in our differences.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">Is there anything on your
checklist that you're like, "I've gotta do this!"</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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Definitely. I mean, when I did this MoMA PS1 thing, being really around the
energy of art and performance art and installations and things like that, I
don't know! Lately I've been really inspired by artists like everyone from
Samantha McCurdy who did the artwork for my album to Alex Katz, who I
collaborated with on the Art Basel piece, and then Ryan McNamara, the
performance artist who gave me this great vehicle to try this songwriting
experiment at PS1. Recently, I met Signe Pierce who calls herself a reality artist
and she's incredible and she's a photographer. She had a show at Art Basel as
well. I'm just heading into a direction where I want to explore questions in
any way I can—whether that's in a play or in a song or another exploration of
some kind. I'm not sure, but I just have to follow that creative muse and see
where it takes me. As I mature I'm getting more confident in my artistry and
getting more confident in my ideas, like where my brain's at; where my head's
at. I'm more confident and more outwardly displaying it through more artistic
mediums—like the thoughts I have in my mind. I think it's just from spending
more time with artistic people in a visual performance art realm. It's really
opening my mind up, and it's kind of exciting for me. We'll see where it takes
me.</span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">Since her date with Nelly
Furtado, Kathy Iandoli has stocked up on rose water and sage. Follow her on </span></i><a href="https://twitter.com/kath3000" target="_blank"><i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #774550;">Twitter.</span></span></i></a><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">Nelly Furtado shot at the
Jane Hotel by</span></i><a href="http://www.rebeccamiller.co.uk/" target="_blank"><i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #774550;">Rebecca Miller.</span></span></i></a><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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