okgo Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 Nelly Furtado's career has spanned a quarter-century, not to mention tens of millions of records sold, so it's tough to fit all the highlights into a single Tiny Desk concert. But damned if Furtado didn't at least try: Her set featured a bunch of her biggest hits ("Promiscuous," "Say It Right," "I'm Like A Bird," "Maneater"), her remix of Missy Elliott's "Get Ur Freak On" and, yes, a brand-new single called "Love Bites." In all, 11 tracks — some of them complete, some of them truncated into medleys — made the cut. For this set, Furtado assembled eight of her favorite veteran collaborators, who joined her in organically re-creating her busy, glitchy pop sound without relying on backing tracks. That meant incorporating everything from a violin to cowbell to beatboxing to scratching courtesy of DJ Lil Jaz — Furtado and Lil Jaz have a daughter together, Nevis, who served as the set's creative director — in a performance that felt like a victory lap, a greatest-hits reel and a homecoming all at once. SET LIST "Say It Right" "Explode" "Powerless (Say What You Want)" "Promiscuous" "All Good Things (Come To An End)" "I'm Like A Bird" "Get Ur Freak On (Remix)" "Love Bites" "Eat Your Man" "Give It To Me" "Maneater" MUSICIANS Nelly Furtado: lead vocals Hrag Sanbalian: keys, musical direction Daniel Stone: percussion William Lamoureux: violin Brian West: guitar Lionel Jarvis: bass Jim Beanz: vocals Anjulie Persaud: vocals DJ Lil' Jaz: DJ 7 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChapelHooker Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 Wow this is awesome! Great arrangements and performance from the band and she is glowing and sounds great. I'm so here for her to have another big era, her 1-2-3 punch of her first three albums is still sooo impressive to me, she is an underrated pop writer in my opinion. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ithinkheknowsoutsold Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 The band was amazing 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChapelHooker Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 Get Ur Freak On.... she ******* did that man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Miracles Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 Setlist is droolworthy 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoAddams Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 Explode 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterXPosed Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 Explode is her best song I never expected her to perform that again! I also loved her Get Ur Freak On performance. She NEEDS to have a big MPG era again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Miracles Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 Explode gave me goosebumps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Miracles Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 Amazing that she performed the Get Ur Freak On remix, hope that'll find its way onto streaming one day Nevis did amazing curating this for her mom 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Miracles Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 Now why did she start stretching during Maneater 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exfactor003 Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 omg @ Explode, I can't wait to watch. and we've got THE Anjulie on background vocals?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeAg Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 EXPLODE??? holy F*CK i need to sleep but when i wake up i'll immediately watch this lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HASHTAGPOW Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 Powerless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feelingparty Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 explode Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justin464 Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 Omg this was so good! So excited she's finally returning to the music scene 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyride Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 I see "that" spark again. wonder what pushed her to be so inspired in music again 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okgo Posted May 24 Author Share Posted May 24 5 minutes ago, Joyride said: I see "that" spark again. wonder what pushed her to be so inspired in music again she's talked about it in most recent interviews saying it's when she began seeing a lot more people revisit her music (tiktok virals, DJs remixing her old stuff, newer artists naming her like when Drake brought her on stage) and realizing it had made an impact and that's what she was meant to do/her passion (paraphrasing) + her kids weren't as young and her older daughter also seems to have encouraged her 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasTea Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 She ATE that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickie Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 She still has IT 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reymiu Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 Her music aged so well 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James_Dean Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 Omg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stepfon Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 Say It Right will never get old to me, that is a classic, that is a classic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnusualBoy Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 This was amazing!! I love the arragements for some of these songs and Nelly is such a sweetheart, love her 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Movimento Perpétuo Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 I love her so much . She is such an amazing and talented artist and a very beautiful and nice woman That was perfect. I love her singing Explode after for so long Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Movimento Perpétuo Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 Explode!!!. @Bloodflowers. won I fear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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