Nelly Furtado: returning to the stage

His latest release, as a soloist and under his own name, is the single “Sticks & Stones” dated 2018, then of Nelly Furtado, pop star, Canadian singer-songwriter with Portuguese citizenship, seemed to have lost track. Today the announcement of a new record release, actually preceded by some live appearances in recent weeks on the Lollapalooza and Coachella stages and by many clues that have long been sown on social media. However, last year (July 2023) she reappeared with “Keep Going Up“, a single released in first name Timbaland, Nelly Furtado and Justin Timberlake.

Six years after her last work Nelly Furtado, still an inspiration to young artists, today releases the new song “Love Bites”, created in collaboration with Tove Lo And SG Lewiswith club and dance sounds, whose release is also accompanied by the respective video clip.

Nelly Furtado talks about the song

I feel like I was called back to music by the DJ community.
DJs remixed my songs at concerts, in clubs and on social media and I realized how much people loved dancing to my songs. Dancing is the healthiest habit you can have and I love having the opportunity to write music that serves as a distraction for people more than anything else.

As a pop icon at the beginning of the millennium, Nelly Furtado has also reached a new audience, that of members of Gen Z, who have made her hits go viral on social media and platforms, so that last week she became part of the “YouTube Billion Views Club”with his hit “Say It Right” (dated 2007) which has reached over 1 billion views.

Billie Eilish she herself declared in a recent interview “that she is listening, at the moment, only to Nelly Furtado's music and that it is her 'vibe'”.

In his career Nelly Furtado, over 20 billion global streams and over 35 million records soldperformed in sold-out arena tours around the world and won, among other awards, a Grammy Awards and his Spanish-language album, “Mi Plan” (2009), earned her the Latin Grammys in the “Best Female Pop Vocal” category.

The recent meeting (2023) with the historic producer Timbaland and with his colleague Justin Timberlake arrived 16 years after the hit “Give it to me”, signed by the trio in 2007.