Loose

Yeah.

What can I say? Loose by Nelly Furtado is peak gym music, unironically.

Wait, Loke? You're right.

Not you're true.

I like a little bit disagree, but I also agree because I like, I love this album so much.

There's not a single song that I skip when I listen to it.

For me, this is my Loose by Nelly Furtado.

Sometimes I listen to it while running just because it's the only thing that gets me through.

This is Nelly Furtado and Timbaland with their track Promiscuous.

was actually the first single released from Loose in America, where it went all the way to number one.

Of course, we got Manny to first, which was also a chart topper.

If she can get it into the top 10 next week, it will be the first time since her first two singles where she's managed to get two top 10 hits in a row.

Two great singles in a row.

But I really have had to increasingly accept that it was sort of the right place at the right time because Nelly Furtado's taste level is all over the place.

And we have learnt this if anyone has listened to the 20th anniversary re-release of the album Loose that this is taken from, in which we get, for some reason, these odd sort of keyboard-backed Like, new takes on the singles from Loose, which are no two ways about it.

Completely dreadful.

I'm Andrew Unterberger, the host of this podcast, and I've been doing my warmup stretches in the studio, 'cause today we're getting loose.

[laughs]

Loose, as in we are flashing back to the year 2006 with the artist Nelly Furtado in her peak year as a pop star, and arguably her only year as a pop star.

Hmm.

We'll get back to that, but in the studio with me today, uh, already weighing in here, uh, playing the part of Timbaland, they call him Todd, last name in the Shadows.

Mm-hmm.

Like, there is absolutely not a single person on Earth who predicted Nelly Furtado being one of the top pop stars of '06.

So what was it, do you think? Like, what, what was it that she was able to do in 2006 with Loose and the singles from that album? Like, why, why was she able to get back in the mix so quickly and so dramatically to now, yeah, we were talking about her as one of the two or three biggest pop artists in, in the mainstream at the time?

And as we all know, Timbaland's like more, he's got some great songs on his own, but more of a producer.

And he collaborated a lot with Nelly Furtado during her mega smash hit album, Loose.

Promiscuous Girl, Man Eater,

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like Nelly Patato's album sales.

Yeah.

Loose is like

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