September 19, 2024 • 18 mins
Nelly Furtado's new album, 7, is out TOMORROW! She tells us all about her incredible comeback and what it was like writing her first new album in several years.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From them. Mercedes Benz Interview Loud.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You know, wasn't that long ago when Nelly for Toado
came in to say hi to us? Yeah, now she's
back to say hi again. I see her out there.
Why why are you out there? And we're in here?
Should we go out there?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
I bet Nate's out there just talking and talking and
flatting and laughing.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Let her go. Nate's putting makeup on Nellie for They
don't put makeup on our guests. She looks fine, she
looks good. Oh, my gosh. Anyway, a new album which
drops tonight, and we're about to play well, I don't
know if they know this. We're about to play a
cut off that album. You know, sometimes we get in
trouble playing cuts before we were supposed to. Well, we're
(00:41):
gonna take that chance. Nellie for Toado. My gosh, she's
all loaded down with cocktails and jewelry.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I want all the jewelry she has on it looks.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
It's always nice to accessorize.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
But I'm so good.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
I'm so happy to be back.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yes, it was, Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
That was a full year ago.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
It was a full year ago. Wow, with the Timberland
and justin Timberlake song. Oh, I think that's what we're
talking about.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I know, I was like, what what were what song
were we talking about? You like?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Cool?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
It's very nice. Cool.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
I like that ring look at that snake RINGA.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Let's just talk about let's just talk about accessories. Let's talk.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Where were Okay, I got it. I love headphones two
ds in a row. People said that they.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Like, sometimes we'll give people the option. We don't have
to do headphones.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
No, they're fun, but a narcissist. I like to hear
my voice like back in my ear, Like that's important.
I mean when it's got like the effects.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
You know, sure it's true. I mean no one likes
the rob recorded vocal. Right when you hear your voice,
this is true. We we don't sound we sound like
frogs without headphones. So we're celebrating tonight's tonight, right the
album comes up tonight?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Is that true?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Apparently an Australian fan was like, actually, it's not tomorrow.
It's tonight in Australia, So yeah, so is it?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
When is it enough for us?
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
For you?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
It's tomorrow Friday Friday. All the new albums come out
on Friday. They do Yeah, got always come out on Friday.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Friday in Australia already, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
That's what I'm saying, like my album, But actually I
don't know. I think it might be like all what time?
Anybody know?
Speaker 6 (02:32):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
I think we don't. This is a mystery.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
This is the most confusing moment of mine.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Is that midnight international locally okay, so tonight and midnight
the album comes out, okay everywhere? Well I've met anywhere.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
I have a problem with this, and I'll tell you
why in this trouble. I already have a cut from
your album, and I know it's not supposed to play
until after midnight, but I'm gonna play it anyway no
matter what you say, it's gonna happen. You don't. I'm
excited because sometimes, you know, sometimes management gets all mad.
They don't want they don't wantus to play it until
it's time. But we're gonna play it anyway, just to
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piss off, piss off everyone. That's is the way it's
gonna be. So this album. You actually collaborated with your
play whatever, with your daughter on this album.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Oh my god, And guess what, it's her twenty first
birthday tomorrow, one year old. I know she's doing and
I have six and five.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Who don't you have a damn you have a lot
going on.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
Oh my god, but it's great. So this is all
the joy and beauty. But also it's all a beauty,
a beautiful thing. Hey, can I tell you something? Before
you got here, we were having some fun. I'm I'm
saying we're not having fun now. But you remember what
year was this?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
What they hear? Timbaland gave me the best beat in
the world. Will if I DJ were with my friends,
if someone lets me take over the iPad at a
club or something, I play this song, so I win
every time. You know California by Tupac when, But but
this is right up there with it. Sorry, but that's
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just listen.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I mean the song is just it stands the test.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I love it. I love it. Of course it's karaoke.
I'm karaoke with everybody.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Hold on, hold, Remember I love the song song. I'm
like it's finest.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yeah it was. Yeah. I was actually twenty years old
when I wrote this on a on a guitar the
traditional way.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yeah, I wrote so I didn't know that I did. Yeah,
that's a great song.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Thank you is trapped in a little hotel room. You know,
sad when you're twenty. That's good.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
We're all sad when we're twenty.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I know. That's what I mean. You could all write I'm.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Like and of course, uh tibolin.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Oh, this is my favorite, it is your favorite. Meta Like,
we are singing about being in the club listening to
our own song. That's hilarious. Did you ever do it
in the club? Listening to you about being in the
couple of times?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
That's that's gonna be weird. You're listening to a song
about you in the club while you're in the club
listening to the song about it.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Yes, yes, I know it's fun.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Though, head exploding. Yes, But now I'm we're about to
play something new and that's gonna happen in a minute.
So okay, what's going on other than being a mom,
being a collaborator, having an album out and looking fabulous?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
It's my god thinks there's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
A list of other things going on too.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I'm just I'm just like, I put a lot of
energy into the album. I'm real like music. I want
to say I'm a music nerd, Like I just I'm
constantly listening to making new playlists and making more music
or thinking not strategized in how to make more music.
So this is like a dream come true for me
because it's not fair that I had four years. It's
not fair. People don't get four years to make albums
and just long story, but I got four years, and
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it's like it's really good. I'm really proud of it.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I don't usually when people write albums, really, when they
write an album, they're at a certain place in their life.
But four years, you've been in a lot of places
in your life, so you've had time to write a.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
List for sure. For sure, Yeah, I definitely. I like
to keep one foot in the industry and one foot
in a very very normal life. I'm talking as normal
as you can imagine that more boring than that for Tato,
Like I don't know, just like I mean, of course,
like you spice it up with some concerts and you're
traveling around the world and you're doing fun stuff. But
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I think that I need that normal because it like
I got to get off the wheel sometimes to feel
you know, you go to the grocery store, and grocery
go to the grocery store. Yeah, I do all those things.
I'm good at kind of being looking. Like yesterday I
was at customs at the airport and the guy was like,
you know what, every time you come through, I've seen
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you three times now, and I I always have to
look you get me every time. I never know it's
you to look at your passport and I'm like, I know.
I like to keep it lowkey. I travel by myself
sometimes he's like yeah, I'm like, yeah, I like to
keep one foot in like just regular life.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
You know, Well, let's talk about it.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
But I love being entertainer maybe, and that's why because
I want to keep doing it, loving it.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
That's something you love doing, but you also love everything
else in your life. So let's talk about when you
write an album. When you put an album together, it's
about life and life experiences and said that, so you're
living a life of being an entertainer, but you're also
living a life of normalcy.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
So our songs about normalcy as exciting for us as suck.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
I mean, I'm not normal. I love normal, but I
don't think my brain is like normal. Abnormal is like
if you see me in the studio. It's not normal,
you know. I write ten songs at the same time,
and I have like I could have twenty people in
there and make a party out of it. I also
have in a tent of ADHD, so I could do
a lot of things at once. But I also get
bored very easily. People ask me a lot. They're like,
why do you have so many strange different genres that
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you dabble in? It makes no sense, you know, like
what genre are you? And I don't know if everybody knows.
But I do have songs with like jessingers, like Michael
Buble or like you know, Andre bo Kelly. I have
a song with a Game, I have a song with
N E. R D. I have a song with a
lot of different kinds of.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Dance acts, very diverse.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Yeah. So, and that's because I get word very easily.
So I guess it's been good to have the ADHD
because it keeps me kind of going. I have a
whole album in Spanish, like stereo. Well, the song with
Mamba Sadio on this new album, yeah, Portuguese. I sing
a little in Portuguese as.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Well, So this is on the new album.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
My new album has again one song with some.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
You don't mind talking about collabse come on.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Talking too quickly?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
No, no, no, no, there's a lot coming out here.
Go as fast as you want, but talk about the
collaborations on this album any surprise, Yeah, yeah, actually.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
No, I like to kind of work with people. Maybe
some people hadn't heard before. There's a really good South
African art world. He has a lot of fans. Actually,
his name's Blackie. He's on a song called Crown.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I've heard of Blackie.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yeah, there you go. Then you know Blackie? Yeah, so
Blackie's not on Crown. And then I've got this incredible artist,
Charlotte d Wilson. Her voice just kind of takes you
back to like seventies vinyl, you know, and it's called
All Comes Back. It's a ballad. And then I've got
Bamba Stadio on a Spanish song. I've got this really,
I mean singer songwriter Gray Hawking on one song.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Called Better for Worse.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
So yeah, there's there's there's heartbreak, there's like there's there's
a little bit of everything. But you can also dance.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Well, I know that.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
I know.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
The song about to pop in a few minutes is
a dance song. It's very rhythmic. Do you didn't even
know what someone? I'm playing?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
See Lewis and Tolo also on my album. But this
other song is just as you Lewis producing.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
How is to doing? By the way, we haven't seen
in a while.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Oh my god. Her and As she made a really cool,
like really cool. They made a bunch of new songs together,
and she's she's working on her her new album and.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
I love I performed in New York with her.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
In Brooklyn a couple weeks ago. We performed the song
for the first time together and me here and Eschy
we love that.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Sh wait, hold on, it's just turning a song by
the way.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Uh And the song went number one and dance radio
did it really did?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:48):
It was. It's it's kind of like a really cool,
like it's a cool song.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
If you're just turning us on. Nelly Pertato is here
and she's a million miles an hour because you have
a lot of energy, because you're so excited. I can
out this is this is your knife. No, no, do
not turn that down, not a what's up? Gandhi? Do
not dial anything down? Please don't no, no, not allowed.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
When you're talking about collaborating.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Obviously you said you collaborated with your daughter who's twenty
one years old now tomorrow tomorrow, Happy birthday.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Navy, Happy Birthday.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Does she come with a bunch of ideas and say, Mom,
please don't insert your opinion like most twenty one year
olds would, or she followed mama's.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Lead because you're you. She has opinions.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Of course she does.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
She's You're raised her that way, super sertive and strong
willed from birth, so great person. Have them studio. She'll
be like, no, sorry, you know I don't want that.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
I don't think you're going to embarrass me.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Mom. No, she's got a musical mind, so she actually
know what's interesting. She kind of reminded me to make
a quality album with depth and musicality and.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Wait, hold on, what were you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Just turn on auto tune and like shadow album like this,
I mean music.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Does she tell you like, Mom, don't do this, don't
do this because you're gonna embarrass me, Like my kids
will say, Mom, that is cringe.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Don't do that.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Like does she do that to you with anything else?
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Oh my god, are you kidding me? When I first
started using social media, she was a teenager and she
was sixteen, and I made the mistake of being like,
do you like this fun on my Instagram? And she'd
be like so so so anyways, yeah yeah no but
not now now now now, now Mom's doing her own thing.
She's got it down. But uh yeah, I definitely I
love talking her about music. It's awesome. Well, you know
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why I've hand with your kids. It's just like you
trust them, you know when they when they become adults,
and you have so much in common that when it
comes to art and music and work, like because she's
in the same field, she works in the business, and
uh I trust her opinion. It's like having a twin
you ever wanted two brains?
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Kid?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
So you're your friends, but do you do you still
still sometimes draw that line between kidding.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Yeah, yeah, I'm not. I'm not like party mom. It's
not how it goes now.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I was working at a song we're about to play
from your new album. It's only a little for two
minutes long. Is there is there ever a conscious decision
in producing an album or a song track by track
where a song needs to be five minutes long versus
one minute long, or it's just whatever it needs to
be to create the art.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Yeah, I'm pretty specific because I also co produce most
of my albums, so I'm a producer as well. So
I sit there, I'm so picky. At the end of it,
I'm like, it's too long. We need to take out
like three lines of that last chorus. We need to
make the bridge shorter, we need to like I want
to change the lyrics in the first verse. So I'm very,
very picky. I'm very like like sound librarian in the
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studio and I notice, like really things nobody probably notices,
and it changed them at the last minute. So yeah,
two minutes to five. Yeah, big difference. It depends on
the song.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
It depends on I guess.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
But it's funny because my one of my co producers,
he made this one song longer. I agreed to it.
But every time I hear it, all I can hear
is my shorter version, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Wa, it's your album though at the end of.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
The day, it's yours, and I'm still second guessing. It's
on the last minute, Like maybe I liked it, but
I but we have this thing called demoitis in the industry.
So when you're a musician in the studio, you have demoitis,
and like you might be I liked it better before,
and like your collaborators will be like, you just have demoitis.
You just like that version because you did it a
year when you've been listening to it in your headphones
and in the car, because they're just your songs.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
That make that makes it sound like it's your problem. Right.
I wonder if anyone ever has ever produced a song
and they head it just tussled around so much it
comes up to be like four seconds long. Well that's
what you want.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
You can chop it too much, too, Yeah, you can
make it too short.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Well.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
I like short songs, though lately a lot of a
lot of songs are short, and I would say, like
like two and a half minutes, but I'll do Fortunately,
the Weekend's new.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Song and love I love it. We're playing it. We're
playing a lot, We're playing it a lot. But this song,
it doesn't need to be longer or shorter. It's perfect.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
It's four and a half minutes a weekend song. But
see what I mean? But why do I know that?
Speaker 2 (14:13):
What about people like us who have short attention span?
And I need a shorter song because I'm I'm like,
that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Like sometimes short like that song by Tate McCrae's only
two and a half minutes, that song by Yeah yeah,
that song. But then I've noticed lately people putting it
out slightly longer, like three three and a half minutes,
just right. But don't you notice that? Can't you take
a song and my songs.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Are back in style again, edit it and then just
keep that last bit for the remix.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
And re release it as the remix the album.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
You can do whatever you want, but look at a
look at a song like Bohemian Rhapsody, which is like
seven years long, Way to Heaven forty five years. What's scary?
What Charlie XCX's the Queen?
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Actually I love that. Oh my god, I have to
see that lot live show.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
So what's your all about on the eve of popping
the new album here in the States at midnight tonight?
Is it all just traveling around talking to people, getting
your one jazzed up about it, talking about them.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
I get a massage, yeah, yeah, god, had you had
like a five hour massage yesterday? Oh my god. I
will tell you exactly where to go cottle Leah Beauty
and Wellness.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Go there.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
It's really close.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Oh my god, five hours, no way.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
I did all kinds of sweet yees. Yeah. Oh like yesterday,
I got a manicure, I got the seven look seven.
My album's called seven, but I got it's simple.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
You know, it's very nice.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
But thanks. But yeah, I'll be talking about it. I'll
be excited. I'll be You know what I can't wait
to do is have all my sounds on social media
so I can make a bunch of tiktoks and reels,
because that's like one of my favorites.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Do you like producing tiktoks? It's like a hobby. You
don't let me do it all? No, no, no.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
I mean I have people to help me, have a team,
but I do a lot of my own.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
I just go off in the corner and just do it.
I just see Nellie at home in bed, lights off
at four in the morning, just making her own ticket.
You just go into town.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Yeah, could be or I'm late, like I actually was
late today because I was making a TikTok in the
shower at the hotel.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
In the shower.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah, sorry, elder, we're clothes on. Oh I had clothes on.
I wasn't thinking about I was making a TikTok to
the weekend song because I love it so much and
I've been rinsing it get the metaphor in the showering
the song. Yeah, so that's why I was late. So
that's so embarrassing, Like, like, do you guys like knowing
that that I made a TikTok? And that made me right.
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I needed to capture the moment.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
But I don't feel like you were late though. Oh
we have people who are late, and that's why I
just got here. That's all you need to do. As
long as you're here, we have people to show it.
Just okay, be here at eight o'clock for the interview.
They'll SHOWU at eight fifteen. Like what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Yeah, you can't for radio. I grew up doing radio, right,
I'm old school, Like I was twenty when I started
doing this, and I traveled across the entire country. Well,
thank god for you for radio stations a day here.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
What she's saying, Katy Perry, she's late, but she's a
good friend. We allow her. She's okay, she can be well.
No one should be allowed to be late. You're you're fine.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
You did great today, Okay, thanks, Yeah, so I wasn't late.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
So Nelly for Tato. The album seven is out tonight
at midnight. But I'm going to play you an illegal
cut now.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Okay. We like, oh my god, please, we.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Like getting attorneys. You know, attorney's offices aren't even open yet.
It's too early, so we can play it now and
when they come in, we'll be gone. We'll meet the spa.
Let's all go the song I've decided from your album.
I've decided to play Honesty. Why because it makes me
want to dance, It makes it, it sounds sonically, it
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takes me back to when I used to go to
the clubs a lot.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Will you dance with me when we play it?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
You don't see me dance?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
I'm going to try still alone.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
It's nasty a solo dance dance with Danielle. Yeah, but
this you can get up on here.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
All right, let's go. Anyone ever done that told us
it won't hold anyone out there?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
My heart saved a lot of money on the furniture.
I wouldn't do it. Yeah, they cut corners when they
built it.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
They would force them to have to replace it.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Not Amy.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
If you break the furniture, we get new furniture. So
there's there's a problem. Thank you so much for coming
in today.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Oh my god. I love seeing you all. Thank you.
I love to be here. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
And I love the fact that we're world premiering a
song on our show illegally. Yeah, let's go okay. The
album is set the rules anyway, rules schmools. The song
is called Honesty. It's Nellie for Toado from the album
se Tonight. Have you ever heard this on the radio yet?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
You?
Speaker 2 (18:42):
No? No yah speaker Nellie for
From them. Mercedes Benz Interview Loud.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You know, wasn't that long ago when Nelly for Toado
came in to say hi to us? Yeah, now she's
back to say hi again. I see her out there.
Why why are you out there? And we're in here?
Should we go out there?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
I bet Nate's out there just talking and talking and
flatting and laughing.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Let her go. Nate's putting makeup on Nellie for They
don't put makeup on our guests. She looks fine, she
looks good. Oh, my gosh. Anyway, a new album which
drops tonight, and we're about to play well, I don't
know if they know this. We're about to play a
cut off that album. You know, sometimes we get in
trouble playing cuts before we were supposed to. Well, we're
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gonna take that chance. Nellie for Toado. My gosh, she's
all loaded down with cocktails and jewelry.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I want all the jewelry she has on it looks.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
It's always nice to accessorize.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
But I'm so good.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
I'm so happy to be back.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yes, it was, Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
That was a full year ago.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
It was a full year ago. Wow, with the Timberland
and justin Timberlake song. Oh, I think that's what we're
talking about.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I know, I was like, what what were what song
were we talking about? You like?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Cool?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
It's very nice. Cool.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
I like that ring look at that snake RINGA.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Let's just talk about let's just talk about accessories. Let's talk.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Where were Okay, I got it. I love headphones two
ds in a row. People said that they.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Like, sometimes we'll give people the option. We don't have
to do headphones.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
No, they're fun, but a narcissist. I like to hear
my voice like back in my ear, Like that's important.
I mean when it's got like the effects.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
You know, sure it's true. I mean no one likes
the rob recorded vocal. Right when you hear your voice,
this is true. We we don't sound we sound like
frogs without headphones. So we're celebrating tonight's tonight, right the
album comes up tonight?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Is that true?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Apparently an Australian fan was like, actually, it's not tomorrow.
It's tonight in Australia, So yeah, so is it?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
When is it enough for us?
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
For you?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
It's tomorrow Friday Friday. All the new albums come out
on Friday. They do Yeah, got always come out on Friday.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Friday in Australia already, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
That's what I'm saying, like my album, But actually I
don't know. I think it might be like all what time?
Anybody know?
Speaker 6 (02:32):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
I think we don't. This is a mystery.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
This is the most confusing moment of mine.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Is that midnight international locally okay, so tonight and midnight
the album comes out, okay everywhere? Well I've met anywhere.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
I have a problem with this, and I'll tell you
why in this trouble. I already have a cut from
your album, and I know it's not supposed to play
until after midnight, but I'm gonna play it anyway no
matter what you say, it's gonna happen. You don't. I'm
excited because sometimes, you know, sometimes management gets all mad.
They don't want they don't wantus to play it until
it's time. But we're gonna play it anyway, just to
(03:07):
piss off, piss off everyone. That's is the way it's
gonna be. So this album. You actually collaborated with your
play whatever, with your daughter on this album.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Oh my god, And guess what, it's her twenty first
birthday tomorrow, one year old. I know she's doing and
I have six and five.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Who don't you have a damn you have a lot
going on.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
Oh my god, but it's great. So this is all
the joy and beauty. But also it's all a beauty,
a beautiful thing. Hey, can I tell you something? Before
you got here, we were having some fun. I'm I'm
saying we're not having fun now. But you remember what
year was this?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
What they hear? Timbaland gave me the best beat in
the world. Will if I DJ were with my friends,
if someone lets me take over the iPad at a
club or something, I play this song, so I win
every time. You know California by Tupac when, But but
this is right up there with it. Sorry, but that's
(04:08):
just listen.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I mean the song is just it stands the test.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I love it. I love it. Of course it's karaoke.
I'm karaoke with everybody.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Hold on, hold, Remember I love the song song. I'm
like it's finest.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yeah it was. Yeah. I was actually twenty years old
when I wrote this on a on a guitar the
traditional way.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yeah, I wrote so I didn't know that I did. Yeah,
that's a great song.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Thank you is trapped in a little hotel room. You know,
sad when you're twenty. That's good.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
We're all sad when we're twenty.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I know. That's what I mean. You could all write I'm.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Like and of course, uh tibolin.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Oh, this is my favorite, it is your favorite. Meta Like,
we are singing about being in the club listening to
our own song. That's hilarious. Did you ever do it
in the club? Listening to you about being in the
couple of times?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
That's that's gonna be weird. You're listening to a song
about you in the club while you're in the club
listening to the song about it.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Yes, yes, I know it's fun.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Though, head exploding. Yes, But now I'm we're about to
play something new and that's gonna happen in a minute.
So okay, what's going on other than being a mom,
being a collaborator, having an album out and looking fabulous?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
It's my god thinks there's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
A list of other things going on too.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I'm just I'm just like, I put a lot of
energy into the album. I'm real like music. I want
to say I'm a music nerd, Like I just I'm
constantly listening to making new playlists and making more music
or thinking not strategized in how to make more music.
So this is like a dream come true for me
because it's not fair that I had four years. It's
not fair. People don't get four years to make albums
and just long story, but I got four years, and
(05:47):
it's like it's really good. I'm really proud of it.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I don't usually when people write albums, really, when they
write an album, they're at a certain place in their life.
But four years, you've been in a lot of places
in your life, so you've had time to write a.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
List for sure. For sure, Yeah, I definitely. I like
to keep one foot in the industry and one foot
in a very very normal life. I'm talking as normal
as you can imagine that more boring than that for Tato,
Like I don't know, just like I mean, of course,
like you spice it up with some concerts and you're
traveling around the world and you're doing fun stuff. But
(06:22):
I think that I need that normal because it like
I got to get off the wheel sometimes to feel
you know, you go to the grocery store, and grocery
go to the grocery store. Yeah, I do all those things.
I'm good at kind of being looking. Like yesterday I
was at customs at the airport and the guy was like,
you know what, every time you come through, I've seen
(06:43):
you three times now, and I I always have to
look you get me every time. I never know it's
you to look at your passport and I'm like, I know.
I like to keep it lowkey. I travel by myself
sometimes he's like yeah, I'm like, yeah, I like to
keep one foot in like just regular life.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
You know, Well, let's talk about it.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
But I love being entertainer maybe, and that's why because
I want to keep doing it, loving it.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
That's something you love doing, but you also love everything
else in your life. So let's talk about when you
write an album. When you put an album together, it's
about life and life experiences and said that, so you're
living a life of being an entertainer, but you're also
living a life of normalcy.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
So our songs about normalcy as exciting for us as suck.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
I mean, I'm not normal. I love normal, but I
don't think my brain is like normal. Abnormal is like
if you see me in the studio. It's not normal,
you know. I write ten songs at the same time,
and I have like I could have twenty people in
there and make a party out of it. I also
have in a tent of ADHD, so I could do
a lot of things at once. But I also get
bored very easily. People ask me a lot. They're like,
why do you have so many strange different genres that
(07:41):
you dabble in? It makes no sense, you know, like
what genre are you? And I don't know if everybody knows.
But I do have songs with like jessingers, like Michael
Buble or like you know, Andre bo Kelly. I have
a song with a Game, I have a song with
N E. R D. I have a song with a
lot of different kinds of.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Dance acts, very diverse.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Yeah. So, and that's because I get word very easily.
So I guess it's been good to have the ADHD
because it keeps me kind of going. I have a
whole album in Spanish, like stereo. Well, the song with
Mamba Sadio on this new album, yeah, Portuguese. I sing
a little in Portuguese as.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Well, So this is on the new album.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
My new album has again one song with some.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
You don't mind talking about collabse come on.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Talking too quickly?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
No, no, no, no, there's a lot coming out here.
Go as fast as you want, but talk about the
collaborations on this album any surprise, Yeah, yeah, actually.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
No, I like to kind of work with people. Maybe
some people hadn't heard before. There's a really good South
African art world. He has a lot of fans. Actually,
his name's Blackie. He's on a song called Crown.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I've heard of Blackie.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yeah, there you go. Then you know Blackie? Yeah, so
Blackie's not on Crown. And then I've got this incredible artist,
Charlotte d Wilson. Her voice just kind of takes you
back to like seventies vinyl, you know, and it's called
All Comes Back. It's a ballad. And then I've got
Bamba Stadio on a Spanish song. I've got this really,
I mean singer songwriter Gray Hawking on one song.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Called Better for Worse.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
So yeah, there's there's there's heartbreak, there's like there's there's
a little bit of everything. But you can also dance.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Well, I know that.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
I know.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
The song about to pop in a few minutes is
a dance song. It's very rhythmic. Do you didn't even
know what someone? I'm playing?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
See Lewis and Tolo also on my album. But this
other song is just as you Lewis producing.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
How is to doing? By the way, we haven't seen
in a while.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Oh my god. Her and As she made a really cool,
like really cool. They made a bunch of new songs together,
and she's she's working on her her new album and.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
I love I performed in New York with her.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
In Brooklyn a couple weeks ago. We performed the song
for the first time together and me here and Eschy
we love that.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Sh wait, hold on, it's just turning a song by
the way.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Uh And the song went number one and dance radio
did it really did?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:48):
It was. It's it's kind of like a really cool,
like it's a cool song.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
If you're just turning us on. Nelly Pertato is here
and she's a million miles an hour because you have
a lot of energy, because you're so excited. I can
out this is this is your knife. No, no, do
not turn that down, not a what's up? Gandhi? Do
not dial anything down? Please don't no, no, not allowed.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
When you're talking about collaborating.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Obviously you said you collaborated with your daughter who's twenty
one years old now tomorrow tomorrow, Happy birthday.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Navy, Happy Birthday.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Does she come with a bunch of ideas and say, Mom,
please don't insert your opinion like most twenty one year
olds would, or she followed mama's.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Lead because you're you. She has opinions.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Of course she does.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
She's You're raised her that way, super sertive and strong
willed from birth, so great person. Have them studio. She'll
be like, no, sorry, you know I don't want that.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
I don't think you're going to embarrass me.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Mom. No, she's got a musical mind, so she actually
know what's interesting. She kind of reminded me to make
a quality album with depth and musicality and.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Wait, hold on, what were you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Just turn on auto tune and like shadow album like this,
I mean music.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Does she tell you like, Mom, don't do this, don't
do this because you're gonna embarrass me, Like my kids
will say, Mom, that is cringe.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Don't do that.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Like does she do that to you with anything else?
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Oh my god, are you kidding me? When I first
started using social media, she was a teenager and she
was sixteen, and I made the mistake of being like,
do you like this fun on my Instagram? And she'd
be like so so so anyways, yeah yeah no but
not now now now now, now Mom's doing her own thing.
She's got it down. But uh yeah, I definitely I
love talking her about music. It's awesome. Well, you know
(11:41):
why I've hand with your kids. It's just like you
trust them, you know when they when they become adults,
and you have so much in common that when it
comes to art and music and work, like because she's
in the same field, she works in the business, and
uh I trust her opinion. It's like having a twin
you ever wanted two brains?
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Kid?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
So you're your friends, but do you do you still
still sometimes draw that line between kidding.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Yeah, yeah, I'm not. I'm not like party mom. It's
not how it goes now.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I was working at a song we're about to play
from your new album. It's only a little for two
minutes long. Is there is there ever a conscious decision
in producing an album or a song track by track
where a song needs to be five minutes long versus
one minute long, or it's just whatever it needs to
be to create the art.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Yeah, I'm pretty specific because I also co produce most
of my albums, so I'm a producer as well. So
I sit there, I'm so picky. At the end of it,
I'm like, it's too long. We need to take out
like three lines of that last chorus. We need to
make the bridge shorter, we need to like I want
to change the lyrics in the first verse. So I'm very,
very picky. I'm very like like sound librarian in the
(12:58):
studio and I notice, like really things nobody probably notices,
and it changed them at the last minute. So yeah,
two minutes to five. Yeah, big difference. It depends on
the song.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
It depends on I guess.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
But it's funny because my one of my co producers,
he made this one song longer. I agreed to it.
But every time I hear it, all I can hear
is my shorter version, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Wa, it's your album though at the end of.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
The day, it's yours, and I'm still second guessing. It's
on the last minute, Like maybe I liked it, but
I but we have this thing called demoitis in the industry.
So when you're a musician in the studio, you have demoitis,
and like you might be I liked it better before,
and like your collaborators will be like, you just have demoitis.
You just like that version because you did it a
year when you've been listening to it in your headphones
and in the car, because they're just your songs.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
That make that makes it sound like it's your problem. Right.
I wonder if anyone ever has ever produced a song
and they head it just tussled around so much it
comes up to be like four seconds long. Well that's
what you want.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
You can chop it too much, too, Yeah, you can
make it too short.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Well.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
I like short songs, though lately a lot of a
lot of songs are short, and I would say, like
like two and a half minutes, but I'll do Fortunately,
the Weekend's new.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Song and love I love it. We're playing it. We're
playing a lot, We're playing it a lot. But this song,
it doesn't need to be longer or shorter. It's perfect.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
It's four and a half minutes a weekend song. But
see what I mean? But why do I know that?
Speaker 2 (14:13):
What about people like us who have short attention span?
And I need a shorter song because I'm I'm like,
that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Like sometimes short like that song by Tate McCrae's only
two and a half minutes, that song by Yeah yeah,
that song. But then I've noticed lately people putting it
out slightly longer, like three three and a half minutes,
just right. But don't you notice that? Can't you take
a song and my songs.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Are back in style again, edit it and then just
keep that last bit for the remix.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
And re release it as the remix the album.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
You can do whatever you want, but look at a
look at a song like Bohemian Rhapsody, which is like
seven years long, Way to Heaven forty five years. What's scary?
What Charlie XCX's the Queen?
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Actually I love that. Oh my god, I have to
see that lot live show.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
So what's your all about on the eve of popping
the new album here in the States at midnight tonight?
Is it all just traveling around talking to people, getting
your one jazzed up about it, talking about them.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
I get a massage, yeah, yeah, god, had you had
like a five hour massage yesterday? Oh my god. I
will tell you exactly where to go cottle Leah Beauty
and Wellness.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Go there.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
It's really close.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Oh my god, five hours, no way.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
I did all kinds of sweet yees. Yeah. Oh like yesterday,
I got a manicure, I got the seven look seven.
My album's called seven, but I got it's simple.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
You know, it's very nice.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
But thanks. But yeah, I'll be talking about it. I'll
be excited. I'll be You know what I can't wait
to do is have all my sounds on social media
so I can make a bunch of tiktoks and reels,
because that's like one of my favorites.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Do you like producing tiktoks? It's like a hobby. You
don't let me do it all? No, no, no.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
I mean I have people to help me, have a team,
but I do a lot of my own.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
I just go off in the corner and just do it.
I just see Nellie at home in bed, lights off
at four in the morning, just making her own ticket.
You just go into town.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Yeah, could be or I'm late, like I actually was
late today because I was making a TikTok in the
shower at the hotel.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
In the shower.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah, sorry, elder, we're clothes on. Oh I had clothes on.
I wasn't thinking about I was making a TikTok to
the weekend song because I love it so much and
I've been rinsing it get the metaphor in the showering
the song. Yeah, so that's why I was late. So
that's so embarrassing, Like, like, do you guys like knowing
that that I made a TikTok? And that made me right.
(16:29):
I needed to capture the moment.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
But I don't feel like you were late though. Oh
we have people who are late, and that's why I
just got here. That's all you need to do. As
long as you're here, we have people to show it.
Just okay, be here at eight o'clock for the interview.
They'll SHOWU at eight fifteen. Like what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Yeah, you can't for radio. I grew up doing radio, right,
I'm old school, Like I was twenty when I started
doing this, and I traveled across the entire country. Well,
thank god for you for radio stations a day here.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
What she's saying, Katy Perry, she's late, but she's a
good friend. We allow her. She's okay, she can be well.
No one should be allowed to be late. You're you're fine.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
You did great today, Okay, thanks, Yeah, so I wasn't late.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
So Nelly for Tato. The album seven is out tonight
at midnight. But I'm going to play you an illegal
cut now.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Okay. We like, oh my god, please, we.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Like getting attorneys. You know, attorney's offices aren't even open yet.
It's too early, so we can play it now and
when they come in, we'll be gone. We'll meet the spa.
Let's all go the song I've decided from your album.
I've decided to play Honesty. Why because it makes me
want to dance, It makes it, it sounds sonically, it
(17:41):
takes me back to when I used to go to
the clubs a lot.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Will you dance with me when we play it?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
You don't see me dance?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
I'm going to try still alone.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
It's nasty a solo dance dance with Danielle. Yeah, but
this you can get up on here.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
All right, let's go. Anyone ever done that told us
it won't hold anyone out there?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
My heart saved a lot of money on the furniture.
I wouldn't do it. Yeah, they cut corners when they
built it.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
They would force them to have to replace it.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Not Amy.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
If you break the furniture, we get new furniture. So
there's there's a problem. Thank you so much for coming
in today.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Oh my god. I love seeing you all. Thank you.
I love to be here. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
And I love the fact that we're world premiering a
song on our show illegally. Yeah, let's go okay. The
album is set the rules anyway, rules schmools. The song
is called Honesty. It's Nellie for Toado from the album
se Tonight. Have you ever heard this on the radio yet?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
You?
Speaker 2 (18:42):
No? No yah speaker Nellie for
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