Estelle Clifford: Nelly Furtado - 7

Coming seven years after the release of her last album, ‘7’ is the 7th studio album by Nelly Furtado.  

When announcing the album in July of 2024, Furtado said she had written “400-500 pieces of music in 4 years", fourteen of which were chosen for the album. 

She likened the album to a collection, the songs being more like “random seashells that may be similar but not all alike”. 

Estelle Clifford joined Jack Tame to give her thoughts on the release. 

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:42):
This is Nellie Fatado. That song is called coras on.
She's just released a new album. The album's called seven,
and Estale Clifford has been listening yoda.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Oh, yoda, and I had to look at what it meant.
So it means my heart yeah, my heartbeat keeps going on.
And then part of it I was like, she's saying kyoda.
Then I was like it's key or like very similar
in language two three or Mali. And I love that
about listening to an album.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Where you're like, I think they have I mean, Spanish
and Portuguese have the same vowel sounds as much. That's
right you mouth yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Real chancel on chorus, super catchy, yes, Colombian inspired beats
when she went for a trip to Colombia featuring an
artist there a bomba yestereo and just a really cool
co lab for her and like that typical Nelly Fotato
stuff where you just can't help but sort of tap
your feet along right on the dance floor. Seven is

(01:39):
the name of the album because it's her seventh studio album.
It's also been seven years since she last released an album. Yeah,
an idea say it's turning into her lucky number, because
apparently every time she doubt herself, something would appear in sevens.
You know when you do that weird thing and you
suddenly everywhere, cars everywhere. Yea yeah, but like that, for her,

(02:00):
apparently this album was inspired, like it reinspired her passion
because she started going out again and then going to
clubs and stuff and hearing all these new DJs remix
some of her old stuff for a new audience, and
she's like, Okay, I think I can do more of this,
but some new now. Imagine going out and hearing your
own music. Anyway, I love that. I love that it

(02:22):
reinspired her. And so this whole album for her is
this journey in refinding her creative passion and bringing that
to us. She's calling it a collection of songs as
opposed to like having a set theme or telling a
story or journey of anything in particular, just more that
she suddenly got inspired to smash out hundreds and hundreds
of songs and these are the ones that really stuck.

(02:45):
And I think some of the collaborations probably helped that.
So she wants us to look at it like a
designer collection where this is her season. Okay, I know, Artie.
I also wanted to give us some outlets for just
tripping out and releasing, and there's plenty of that in here,
so she really has I'm like, yep, she's obviously definitely

(03:05):
gone back to the dance floor because a lot of
the songs had that real high energy, high beat cool stuff.
I just I think that's kind of the way with
Nelly Fotato, Like there's standout songs where you're like, that's
definitely her, and there's some on this album where you're like, oh,
I have to listen to it a bit more. It's
kind of cool, like she's reimazining what she does. But

(03:26):
I think that's also the process of collaboration with people
you're working with. There's a great song and here called
love Bites, similar to Corason and that upbeat, catchy sing
along kind of chorus style, and she's featuring Toblo and
that really good collaboration. She actually starts her voice is
quite Billie Eilish, is that quiet kind of like yeah, whispery, yeah, yeah,

(03:49):
which I was like, oh cool, that's kind of really
playful and something different. You don't always hear Nellie Fotato do.
So I feel like each song she has embraced like
a different sort of vocal technique and then it breaks
into that Nelly Fotato sort of sing along stuff that
you kind of know. Yeah, yeah, She's makes them some
ballads as well, they sort of come later in the album,
real underplayed vocal delivery sometimes and then again it's just

(04:12):
the melodies for her that I think always hit a
really good spot. It's been interesting to see fan reaction
to this album because everyone's finding their particular song, Like
some are really going, oh, it's a breakup album, and look,
she has been through some stuff. But I think that's
the great thing about music. Once you release it, people
find the one that really sits. It's even a touch

(04:34):
of yodling, like through the album Take Me Down, I know,
I was like, well right, yeah, yeah, I never never
expected anything like that. I think it's an album that's
best played loud as probably like a getting ready to
go out kind of album. I don't know if I
do so much of that anymore. House Clean gets the

(04:58):
heart rate up, which I think is quite beautiful. Her voices,
I mean, I don't feel like her voice is aged,
and I think she's sticking with what she's really good at,
but just giving us some real international kind of beats
to go along with that, with what she puts into
her songs and the production of it, yeah, which I
really like. Like she's one of those artists that can
just come back and you go, oh right, I wouldn't

(05:20):
necessarily have seen it's being seven years. I don't know
if there's any of those songs that really have hit
me just yet, like some of her real big radio plays, yeah,
from the early two thousands. But I think they are
definitely songs that you'll enjoy when you put them on.
And I think that's nice about an album, right, yeah
totally and go yeah, this is this is cool? And again,
play it loud, excellents, and windows open, let the neighborhood

(05:44):
know that you're embracing Nellie again.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
And what did you give it? It's out of ten
for eight out of ten for seven by Nellie Fatando.
Very good. Nice, Hey, thik you Estelle looking forward to
having a bit of a listen. Don't mind a bit
Nellie fotado from time to time, So we will play
you another one of her tracks off a new album
in a couple of minutes on News Talks, You'd be
right now. It is eight minutes to twelve.

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