As unique trajectories go, few can rival that of Nelly Furtado. 

Flying onto the mainstream scene in the year 2000, the Canadian songstress made seismic waves with her breakout hit ‘I’m Like a Bird’ and firmly established herself as one of the leading faces of Folk-Pop.

By the middle of that decade, though, she experienced quite the metamorphosis after teaming with Timbaland. A union that birthed her biggest era to date. From ‘Promiscuous,’ ‘Maneater,’ and ‘Say It Right’ to their housing album ‘Loose,’ Furtado was inescapable.

The years that followed were characterized by hiatuses and a handful of releases that earned critical praise but not so much in the way of commercial resonance.

Now, with those chapters in rearview, it looks like the star is ready for another musical metamorphosis. And she’s not short on material!

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In a new interview feature for Fault Magazine, Furtado revealed that she’s been cooking up ample new material:

“I have so much music. I’ve recorded a hundred songs in the last 18 months, and I’m so excited to bring people new music.”

Continuing, she added:

“I literally just approved another remix today. People keep remixing and re-releasing my song “Give It to Me.” It’s like they keep renaming that song and putting it out again! But that’s rewarding too because I had a song come out a couple of years ago called “Big Hoops” by Rain Radio. It wasn’t big, but I always liked that song. It didn’t make a big splash when it came out, but then years later, amazing DJs remixed it, and it became a number one dance record in the UK and entered the top 40. That stuff is so rewarding when you make a song, and maybe not a lot of people notice it, but a decade later, it’s like, “Oh, we care about this.” It makes you realize that the sky’s the limit, you know?”

She also said of her legacy:

“When it comes to my legacy, it has only started to connect in the last few years because of TikTok. One day, my daughter said, “Mom, your music is trending on TikTok.” I didn’t even have TikTok on my phone, and I didn’t know how to use it. We started making fun little videos on there. At the same time, I started going out and often hearing my music being played. I found out why the DJs were playing these old songs and discovered that people want to celebrate and have fun to my music. When I started in this business, people would say, “Oh, maybe I’m a one-hit wonder,” but 20 years have gone by and people still like my music.”

True talent is timeless. And true talent is what Nelly defines. As such, we’re all sorts of buzzed about her incoming material.

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[Photo Credit: Fault / Raen Badua]