Nelly Furtado Leaves Door Open For Chris Martin Live Collaboration

The third album from Canadian singer Nelly Furtado is a complete change in direction.

Thanks to hip-hop producer Timbaland and The Eurythmics, the singer/songwriter has turned her back on pop for a sexier dance sound influenced by her favourite Eighties bands. Chatting to SFTW, she says: “Timbaland came to the studio with loads of CDs and music.

A standout track on Loose is All Good Things, which originally started off as a duet with Chris Martin. Label politics from Coldplay’s EMI meant it was removed from Loose at the last minute. “I’ve been friends with Chris Martin for a while and bumped into him at the MTV awards in Miami last year. I told him to come down to the studio as he loves Timbaland and Timbaland loves Coldplay so I knew they would get on. Chris came to the studio and we just jammed for about five hours and came up with All Good Things. It is such a beautiful song. We wrote it together. “Who knows if we will perform the song together one day?”

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