Nelly Furtado: Tiny Desk Concert
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Published 2024-05-24
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
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
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All Comments (21)
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Never clicked so quick on a Tiny Desk
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MILLENNIALS UNITE!!
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i didn't realize how many of her songs were part of my life growing up
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Her voice is an instrument. She sounds just the same as 2 decades ago. So glad to hear her back.
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Say It Right is single-handedly one of the best pop songs ever 😭
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Sound of the 90's and early 2000's Nelly Furtado is just too beautiful.
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If you didn’t have Nelly Furtado on your iPod or MP3 in ‘07 then you don’t know what music really is
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Whoever’s been in charging of booking the last few artists needs a major raise 🔥
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Loose has aged like fine wine. It's peak 2000s pop music and Nelly is a legend.
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I have never seen people so proud and happy for the singer. Nelly, the people around you are there for you. Loved it
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crazy how good her voice sounds live
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The world needed a Nelly Furtado comeback. I've watched this Tiny Desk 3x now. Hope she goes back on tour and in smaller venues to recreate this feeling.
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She nailed one of the best live sets of her career, teaming up with eight of her favorite veteran buddies! They came together to recreate her unique, glitchy pop sound totally live, no backing tracks needed. Congrats for this era Nelly, love from Chile!
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Hearing "I'm Like A Bird" is so heart touching to me. I grew up poor and when we finally bought cable, I remember the always watching the music video for the song whenever it came on MTV. Simpler times. Thank you Nelly Furtado for being part of my childhood ❤
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I'm not even a Nelly fan, but this Tiny Desk Concert is comforting in an odd way. I've replayed it twice already.
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She still sounds stellar. She looks even more incredible now than in her earlier youth. One of the guiltiest pleasures that became my favorite music-listening pastime has always been digitally digging through my folk pop and post-folk pop crates to pick out an album from her underrated catalog. Thank you for making my adolescence that much more meaningful and poignant, Nelly Furtado. You were excellent here and so was your band. I'm extremely proud of you.
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She took the time to introduce every single member of her band. How sweet. Also I think I just fell in love again.
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Anyone that can sound this good without studio production is a true musician and artist. She has a quality about her that can't be replicated.
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I'm positively surprised how well her bangers translated into this format. She has great musicians backing her up and Maneater is still a monster of a song!
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Nelly is what the world needs right now
