- 2 days ago
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
TINY DESK TEAM
Producer: Bobby Carter
Director/Editor: Kara Frame
Audio Technical Director: Neil Tevault
Videographers: Kara Frame, Maia Stern, Joshua Bryant, Alanté Serene
Audio Engineer: Carleigh Strange
Production Assistant: Ashley Pointer
Photographer: Michael Zamora
Tiny Desk Copy Editor: Hazel Cills
Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed
Series Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson
VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins
#tinydesk #nprmusic #nellyfurtado
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
TINY DESK TEAM
Producer: Bobby Carter
Director/Editor: Kara Frame
Audio Technical Director: Neil Tevault
Videographers: Kara Frame, Maia Stern, Joshua Bryant, Alanté Serene
Audio Engineer: Carleigh Strange
Production Assistant: Ashley Pointer
Photographer: Michael Zamora
Tiny Desk Copy Editor: Hazel Cills
Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed
Series Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson
VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins
#tinydesk #nprmusic #nellyfurtado
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MusicTranscript
00:00Hey, I'm Nelly Furtado. Welcome to my tiny desk.
00:30Oh, when you win, it's broken. When it slips from your head. When there's no time for jogging, there's a hope in the plan.
00:46Oh, you don't mean nothing to go to me. No, you don't mean nothing to go to me.
00:59Oh, you don't mean nothing to go to me.
01:15Oh, you don't mean nothing to go.
01:45Oh, you don't mean nothing to go to me.
02:15Oh, you don't mean nothing to go to me.
02:17It's blue.
02:19Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
02:23Stop your hand, y'all. Come on, come on!
02:25It's a fight, it's a fight, and you finally belong in the shining now
02:30And it's more than a battle sky, more than a battle sky
02:32Such a good, good story to tell
02:34And lunch break, lunch break, lunch break, lunch break
02:36Such a good, good story to tell
02:38You believe me, believe me, believe me, believe me, believe me
02:41You talk, you talk, you want, you talk
02:43You hit it and you're in it and it's good and it's wild
02:48Never thought that we get caught up
02:52Stuffed in the teenage ways
02:55As we explode
02:57As we explode
03:04As we explode
03:11As we let go
03:19Come on everybody
03:28Hands up y'all
03:29Thank you
03:30Thank you
03:31Cause this life is too short to live in just for you
03:38But when you feel so powerless
03:41What are you gonna do?
03:45Cause this life is too short to live in just for you
03:51But when you feel so powerless
03:52What are you gonna do?
03:58Are you gonna do?
03:59So say what you want
04:03Say what you want
04:04What you want
04:05Thank you
04:06Thank you
04:07Thank you
04:08Thank you
04:09Thank you
04:10Thank you
04:11Thank you
04:12Thank you
04:13Thank you so much
04:14We're really excited to be here
04:16Yeah
04:17We might be a little nervous
04:18But the good kind exciting kind
04:20Those two tracks were
04:21Well I started with a song from my album Loose from 2006 and then I went backwards to 2003 and did a song called Explode and then Powerless and you might know this next one
04:38You might know this next one
05:08Let me know
05:10No
05:11Am I throwing you off?
05:12No
05:13No
05:14No
05:15One more time
05:16Am I throwing you off?
05:17No
05:18Hey
05:19I didn't think so
05:21Let's go
05:22How you doing young lady with that footer next you're getting really driving me crazy
05:27You're dope, have a play about the joke I was out before for first first time that we spoke
05:31You're looking for a girl that'll treat you right now You're looking for in the day time with the light
05:35You might be the knife if I pay my cause right
05:37I'll find out by the end of the night
05:39You expect me to just let you hit it
05:41But will you suspect me if you didn't?
05:43All I can do is try, give me one chance
05:45What's the problem? I don't see no ring on your hands
05:47I'll be the first to admit it
05:50I'm curious about you, you see so innocent
05:52You're gonna get in my world, get lost in it
05:54But I'm tired of running, let's walk for a minute
05:56Hey, you're a miscuous girl
05:58Wherever you are
06:00Sing along, I'm all alone
06:03And it's you that I want
06:05Don't miss you this boy
06:07You already know
06:09That I'm all yours
06:11What you waiting for
06:14Don't miss you this girl
06:16It's easy for me
06:18You know what I want
06:20And I got what you need
06:22Let's miss you this boy
06:24Let's get to the park
06:26Cause we are the floor
06:28You ain't
06:35I want to take a real special minute to introduce
06:41You might hear Jim Beans over here
06:44He's from Philly
06:45He's representing for the U.S.
06:46Everybody else is from Canada
06:47We have collaborated for years
06:53And he is my vocal producer on Loose
06:55And I'm so happy to have him here
06:56Because his voice is iconic
06:58So thank you, Jim
06:59I'll introduce somebody else after
07:01Actually, you know
07:07Should I introduce everyone now?
07:08Maybe I should
07:09While I'm
07:10I don't want to start talking
07:11Over here is Anjali
07:13My amazing artist also
07:15We're both from Canada
07:16We write together
07:17She wrote Eat Your Man with me
07:19It was really important for me to have her here
07:20I'm happy she made time
07:22And over here is a very special man
07:31This is Sweet Westy
07:32You might know him as Track and Field
07:34Him and I
07:35I'm going to cry
07:36We produced my first two albums together
07:40Along with Gerald Eaton
07:42So I'm just so happy he came to do this today
07:44This is Dean Jarvis
07:50We've been working together for 25 years
07:52Since I was a little girl
07:53This is Will
07:56If you don't know, you'll know now
07:58He's an incredible musician
07:59Also from Gatsido, Quebec
08:01Over here is Daniel Stone
08:06My favorite percussionist
08:09Over here is Harag
08:13He's an amazing producer
08:15And we've been working a lot on our live stuff
08:18And we've got some new cuts coming
08:20Last but not least
08:23We have the ultimate throwback today
08:25From my OG original band
08:28This is DJ Little Jazz
08:30Incredible pioneer in the scratching world
08:34Won't mention all his awards from over the years
08:37But this is also
08:38This set's been creative directed by my daughter
08:42Nevis
08:42Which is
08:43This is her dad
08:43And thank you Nevis
08:55Great job
08:56Let's keep it going
08:57Okay
09:04Yeah
09:06One, two, three, four
09:09Honestly, what will become of me?
09:24Don't like reality
09:26It's way too clear to me, but really
09:31Life is daily, we are what we don't see
09:35We miss everything they dream in
09:39Blames from dust, lovers to friends
09:44Why did all good things come to an end?
09:49Blames from dust, lovers to friends
09:53Why did all good things come to an end?
09:58Come to an end, come to an end
10:02Why did all good things come to an end?
10:07Come to an end, come to an end
10:11All good things come to an end
10:16I got the real way down
10:18I'm laying out
10:22You're beautiful, and that's for sure
10:37Never ever fade
10:42But it's not for sure
10:47For sure, for sure, for sure
10:48But I won't ever change
10:51If all my love is red
10:54If all my love is strong, yeah
11:00Come on, y'all
11:02I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away
11:05I don't know where my soul is
11:08I don't know where my home is
11:11I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away
11:15I don't know where my soul is
11:18I don't know where my home is
11:20Baby, all I need for you to know is
11:25You know, as Jim was saying earlier, we really wanted to give a shout-out to Timbaland
11:44If he doesn't have one, I feel like he needs his own tiny desk for sure
11:53But, um, so this is a relevant story
11:57So Timbaland introduced me to Missy Elliott
11:59And it was 2001
12:01And I only had I'm Like a Bird out
12:04And she saw me with, like, my Adidas shell-toos on my jeans
12:08And my Princess Leia buns on MTV
12:10And she said, I want her on the Get Your Freak On remix
12:13And not a lot of people know this because
12:15It was played a lot on urban radio at the time
12:18But it was never an official, like, it's not
12:20You can't find it anywhere
12:21Maybe YouTube, I'm not sure
12:23But, uh...
12:25So we're gonna play for you
12:31Come on everybody, let's party y'all
12:35Hey-hey-hey-hey-hey-hey-hey
12:39Hands up!
12:41Then I'm a chief red banger with the top down low on my flow cause it's so fresh
12:57Like three boys with vests, white runners scarfed chest
13:00Yes, you, yes, I run like a breeze
13:03Two catches left and sometimes killin' me till I bleed
13:06There's truth that go, there's a rhyme, gonna tell it
13:10There's a story, I defend it, Missy comin' in, I'll end it
13:13Where, where'd she come from, this international daughter's son?
13:15So get your high sample and just hunt till your party's just begun
13:18Come over to my house, get dives with some salt from a loss for life
13:21On the West Coast, please, please, please, please, please, please, please
13:23This is a woman who always be cookin'
13:26Something else not to come live by vibin'
13:29From D.C. to T.D. and all around the world
13:31Giddy up, giddy up, back, back up to my girl
13:34Now go, hey, now go
13:40Now go
13:41Now go
13:42Get, get, get, get, get your freak on
13:45Who's that chick?
13:47Meep, meep
13:48Woo!
13:48Nelly, Nelly, Nelly, for taboo in your stereo
13:51Oh, oh, oh
13:53Nelly, Nelly, Nelly, for taboo all in your stereo
13:56Oh, oh, oh
13:58Nelly, Nelly, Nelly, for taboo all in your stereo
14:01Oh, oh, oh
14:04Nelly, Nelly, Nelly, put on the world in your stereo
14:07Quiet!
14:07Shh!
14:31Hey, hey, hey
14:33And I can tell it from your mouth that you're
14:36Real good at working with your mouth and you're
14:40Not really trying to mess with my mind and
14:44Good at pretending that you could be mine
14:48Yeah, I can tell it from your mouth that you
14:51You got the devil in your eyes so high
14:55Not gonna waste a lot of my time on you
14:59You should know that I can't do it on a dime
15:03I want your body on mine
15:05Oh, you're looking to find
15:07The way your love bites
15:09Have me dreaming about that
15:10Time to mark on my mind
15:12Give me more of that time
15:14The way your love bites
15:16Have me dreaming about your
15:18Go ahead, go ahead now
15:20Knock your hands, everybody, come on!
15:22Go ahead, go ahead now
15:24Hey, hey, hey, hey
15:26Go ahead, go ahead now
15:28Hey, hey, hey, hey
15:30Go ahead, go ahead now
15:31Greenish, here we go!
15:33I reach a man, devour him, ho
15:34Licking my fingers, I'm in control
15:36Fly like a bird, I'm taking it home
15:38Moving my body like a nympho
15:40I say it right now, do what I say
15:42I fly the pressure into your veins
15:44Blood on the floor, I'm pushing the pain
15:46I let the creatures die to the cage
15:48Go ahead, go ahead now
15:50Hey, hey, hey
15:52Go ahead, go ahead now
15:54Go ahead, go ahead now
15:58Go ahead, go ahead now
16:01Oh, sing along, y'all!
16:03If you see us in the club
16:05We'll be acting real nice
16:07If you see us on the floor
16:09We'll be watching all night
16:11We're here to hurt nobody
16:12Give it to me, give it to me, give it to me
16:14Wanna see you work nobody
16:16Give it to me, give it to me, give it to me
16:18If you see us in the club
16:20Real nice
16:22If you see us on the floor
16:24We'll be watching all night
16:26We're here to hurt nobody
16:27Give it to me, give it to me, give it to me
16:29Wanna see you work nobody
16:31Give it to me, give it to me, give it to me
16:33If you see us in the club
16:35We'll be acting real nice
16:37If you see us on the floor
16:39We'll be watching all night
16:41We're here to hurt nobody
16:43Give it to me, give it to gang to me
16:45Want to see you work your body
16:47Give it to me, give it to me, give it to me
16:49If you see us in the club, we'll be actin' nice
16:52If you see us on the floor, you'll be watchin' all night
16:56We ain't here to hurt nobody
16:58Give it to me, give it to me, give it to me
17:00Potter
17:00Want to see you work your body
17:02Give it to me, give it to me, give it to me
17:04Yes, Tiny desk
17:13I love you so much.
17:26Portugal!
17:28Let's see.
17:29Força.
17:29Força Portugal sempre.
17:31Portuguese out here.
17:33We are out here.
17:36Obrigada.
17:37And one last one.
17:39Please dance.
17:40Please dance.
17:43This song is called Maneater.
18:02Everybody look at me.
18:05I walk in the door.
18:06You stop screaming.
18:09Come on, everybody.
18:10What you here for?
18:11Move your body.
18:13You're real like a nipple.
18:15Everybody get your neck to crack around.
18:19All you crazy people.
18:20Come on, jump around.
18:22I want to see you all on your knees.
18:25You're either one or be with me.
18:27You're pleasing me.
18:28Come on, now.
18:29Maneater.
18:29Maneater.
18:30Make you work hard.
18:31Make you spend hard.
18:33Make you want hard.
18:34Love her love.
18:35She's a Maneater.
18:37Make you cry.
18:38Cause make you cry.
18:39Cause make you cry.
18:40You're a Maneater.
18:41You're a Maneater.
18:42Make you work hard.
18:45Make you spend hard.
18:46Make you want hard.
18:47Love her love.
18:49You're a Maneater.
18:50Make you buy cards.
18:51Make you cut cards.
18:53Wish you never ever met her at all.
18:55And when she walks, she walks with passion.
18:59When she talks, she talks like she can handle it.
19:02When she asks for something, boy, she means it.
19:05Even if you've never ever seen it.
19:09Everybody get your nuts and crack around.
19:12All you crazy people, come on, jump around.
19:15You're doing anything to keep her by your side.
19:18Because she said she'd love you, love you a long time.
19:21Come on, now.
19:22Maneater.
19:23Make you work hard.
19:24Make you spend hard.
19:26Make you want hard.
19:27Love her love.
19:28She's a Maneater.
19:30Make you buy cards.
19:31Make you work hard.
19:32Make you want hard.
19:33Funny love.
19:35She's a Maneater.
19:36Make you work hard.
19:38Make you spend hard.
19:39Make you want hard.
19:40Love her love.
19:41She's a Maneater.
19:43Make you buy cards.
19:44Make you cut cards.
19:46Wish you never ever met her at all.
19:48Ah.
19:50Ooh.
19:51Hey.
19:51Ah.
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20:25She's a man-eater, a man-eater
20:31And around the world, I ain't ever, she's nothing like me
20:35She's a man-eater, a man-eater
20:38And around the world, I ain't ever, she's nothing like me
20:42She's a man-eater, a man-eater
20:45And around the world, I ain't ever, she's nothing like me
20:48She's a man-eater, a man-eater
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