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 the 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 (00:16):
I bet Nate's out there just talking and talking and
farting and laughing.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Let her go. Nate's putting makeup on Nelly for Nate.
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 (00:52):
I want all the jewelry she has on It looks amazing.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
It's always nice to accessorize.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
No, 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 was like, what what were what song? Were we
talking about? You like, this is cool, it's very nice
and cool. I like that ring, look at that snake ring.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Let's just talk about let's just talk about accessories, let's talk.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Where we're Okay, I got it. I love headphones.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Do you.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Two days in a row people said that they live
because you know, sometimes we'll get people the option. We
don't have to do headphones now.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
They're fun, But I'm a narcissist. I like to hear
my voice like back in my hair, Like that's important.
I mean when it's got like the effects.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
You know, sure it's true.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I mean no one likes the rob recorded vocal. Right
when you hear your voice.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
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? Is that true?
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Apparently an Australian fan was like, actually, it's not tomorrow.
It's tonight in Australia, So yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
So when is it? When is it not for us?
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
For you? It's tomorrow Friday Friday. All the new albums
come out on Friday.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
They do.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Yeah, always come out on Friday Friday in Australia already,
isn't it.
Speaker 4 (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 3 (02:32):
I don't. I think.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Ahead. It's a mystery.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
This is the most confusing moment of mine.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Is it midnight international?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Midnight locally? Okay?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
So tonight and midnight the album comes out? Okay everywhere? Well,
I've got 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
wants to play it until it's time. But we're gonna
play it anyway, just to piss off, piss off everyone.
(03:09):
That's just the way it's gonna be. So this album,
you actually collaborated with your play whatever you with your
daughter on this album.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Oh my god. And guess what.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
It's her twenty first birthday tomorrow, one year old.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
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 1 (03:27):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
But it's great.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
So this is all the joy and beauty.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
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 saying we're not having fun now.
But you remember what year was this?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
What the here? Timbaland gave me the best beat in
the world. Well, if I DJ were with.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
My friends, if someone lets me take over the iPad
at a club or something, I play this song, so
I win every time. California by Tupuc wins. But but
this is right up there with it. Sorry, but that's
just listen.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I mean, this song is just it stands the testing.
I love it.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I love it. Of course it's karaoke. I'm karaoke with everybody.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
What about this one? Hold on hold?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Remember I love the song song It's finest? Yeah it was.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Yeah. I was actually twenty years old when I wrote
this on a on a guitar the traditional way I wrote.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
So I didn't know that I did. Yeah, such a
great song.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Thank you is being 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. We could all write I'm.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Like a rite and of course, uh, Timberlin, oh this
is my favorite. Give it to me your paying meta.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Like we are singing about being in the club listening
to our own song.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
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 gonna be weird. You're listening to a song about
you and 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):
There's my god, thanks, There's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
A list of other things going on too.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I'm just I'm just like, I put a lot of
energy into the album. I'm real like music.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
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 strategizing, 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.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
It's not fair.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
People don't get four years to make albums and just
long story, but I got four years, and it's like
it's really good.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I'm really proud of it.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I don't usually when people write albums, Nellie, when they
write an album, they're at a certain place in their life.
But four years, you've been a lot of places in
your life, so you've had time to write at for sure.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
For sure, Yeah, I definitely. I like to keep one
foot in the industry and one foot in a very
very normal life.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
I'm talking as normal as you can imagine that more
boring than that for tado, 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 I think that I need
that normal because it like I gotta get off the
(06:29):
wheel sometimes to feel you know.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
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.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
And the guy was like, you know what, every time
you come through, I've seen you three times now.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
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 low key. 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, let's talk about it.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
But I love the entertainer. Maybe that's why, because I
want to keep doing it. Love 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 to that. So you're
living a life of being an entertainer, but you're also
living a life of normalcy. Yeah, so our songs about
normalcy as exciting for us as so you know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
I mean, I'm not normal. I love a normal, but
I don't think my brain is like normal.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
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 attent of ADHD, so I could
do a lot of things at once.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
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 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.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Songs with like jessingers, like Michael Buble or like you know,
Andre Bochelly.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I have a song with a Game, I have a
song with n E.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
R D.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I have a song with a lot of different kinds
of dance acts.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Very diverse.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Yeah, so, and that's because I get board very easily.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
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, well, the song with Mamba Steradio
on this new album, yeah, my Portuguese. I sing a
little in Portuguese as well, So this is on the
new album. My new album has one song with some you.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Don't mind talking about collapse? Come on talking too quickly?
No 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.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Yeah, actually 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 is Blackie. He's on a song called Crown.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I've heard of Blackie.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yeah, there you go. Then you know Blackie? Yeah, so
Blackie's not on Crown.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
And then I've got this incredible artist, Charlotte Day 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 Sterio on
a Spanish song. I've got this really, I'm amazing singer
songwriter Grey Hawking on one song called Better for Worse.
So yeah, there's there's there's heartbreak, there's like there's there's
(09:08):
a little bit of everything, but you can also dance.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Well. I know that I know the song about to
pop in a few minutes is a damn song. It's
very rhythmic. Do you didn't even know what someone? I'm playing?
Speaker 4 (09:18):
See Lewis and Toblo 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
to in a while?
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Her and As she made a really cool, like really cool.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
They made a bunch of new songs together, and she's
she's working on her her new album and I love
I performed in New York with her in Brooklyn a
couple of weeks ago. We performed the song for the
first time together and me here and hy we love that.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Sho wait hold on, it's just turning a song by the.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Way, uh and the song my number one and dance
radio it did it really did? Yeah, 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. Nellie 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
tell this is this is your NiFe. No, no, do
not turn that down.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
I know a dial?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
What's up? Gandhi? Do not dial anything down Please don't no, no,
not allowed.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
When you're talking about collaborating, obviously you said you collaborated
with your daughter who's twenty one years old now tomorrow tomorrow,
Happy birthday, Navy, Happy birthday. 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
following mama's lead because you're you, she has opinions.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Of course she does.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
She's you raised her that way, super sertive and strong
willed from birth, so great person.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
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. Mom.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
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.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
And wait, hold on, what were you gonna do just
turn on auto tunes like shallow album like this.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Iles of music.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
But 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. Like does she do that to you
with anything else?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Oh my god, are you kidding me?
Speaker 4 (11:21):
When I first started using social media, she was a
teenager and she was sixteen, and I made the mistake
of being like.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Do you like this run on my Instagram?
Speaker 4 (11:28):
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.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
It's awesome. Well, you know why I've found 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 like a twin.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
You ever wanted two brains your friends?
Speaker 2 (12:02):
But do you do? You still still sometimes draw that
line between medding.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Yeah, yeah, I'm not. I'm not like party mom. It's
not how it goes down.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I was looking 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 4 (12:34):
Yeah, I'm pretty specific because I also co produce most
of my albums, so I'm a producer as well.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
So I sit there, I'm so picky.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
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 want to change the lyrics in the
first verse.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
So I'm very, very picky.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
I'm very like like sound librarian in the studio, and
I notice, like really things nobody probably notices, and it
tanged them at the last minute.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
So yeah, two minutes to five. Yeah, big difference. It
depends on the song.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
It depends on this, I guess.
Speaker 4 (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):
Well, it's your album, though at the end of the day,
it's yours.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
And I'm still second guessing it's on the last minute,
Like maybe I liked it, but I but we have
this song 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, they're just your songs.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
That makes it sound like it's your problem, right. I
wonder if anyone ever has ever produced a song and
they head it toussled 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, I I like short.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Songs, though lately a lot of a lot of songs are.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Short, and I would say, like, I like two and
a half minutes, but I'll do fortunately like the Weekend's
new song and love I love it.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
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.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
But see what I mean?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Why do I know that?
Speaker 2 (14:13):
What about people? A Custodaly, you have short attention span
and I need a shorter song because I'm like, that's what.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
I'm saying, 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 out
slightly longer, like three three and a half minutes, just right.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Notice that. Can't you take a song and like 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 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 y's the Queen?
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Actually I love that? Oh my god, I have to
see that live show.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
So what's your day 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?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yeah, yeah, god? Had you had like a five hour
massage yesterday?
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Oh my god? I will tell you exactly where to go.
Cotta leah, beauty and wellness.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Go there.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
It's really close. Oh my god, five hours, no way.
I did all kinds of sweet yees. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Oh like yesterday, I got a manicure, I got the
seven look seven.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
My album's called seven. But it went simple. You know,
it's very nice. But thanks. But yeah, I'll be talking
about it. I'll be excited.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
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.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Like one of my favorites.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Do you love producing tiktoks?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
It's like a hobby, you know what.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Let Neves do it all.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
No, no, no, I mean I have people to help me,
have a team, but I do a lot of my own.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
I just see you off in the corner and just
do it. I just see Nelly at home in bed,
lights off at four in the morning to making her
own ticketo 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 no, 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 shower, sing the song.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Yes, so 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?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
And that made me right. 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.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Yeah, right, and that's why I just got here.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
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 interviewal show at eight fifteen,
Like what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Yeah, you can't for radio.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
I grew up doing radio, right, I'm old school, Like
I was twenty when I started doing this, and I
traveled across.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
The entire country.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Well, thank god for you for radio stations A day here.
What she's saying, Katie Perry.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
The same.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
She's late, but she's a good friend. We allow her.
She's okay, she could be well, no one should be
allowed to be late. You're you're fine, you did great today.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Okay, thanks, Yeah, so I wasn't late.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
So Nellie for Tato. The album seven is out tonight
at midnight. But I'm going to play you an the
legal cut now.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
We like, Oh my god, please, we 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?
(17:37):
It makes it, it sounds sonically, it 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. Do a solo dance. Dance with Danielle?
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yeah, but this you can.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Get up on here. All right, let's go. Has anyone
ever done that? It won't hold anyone's.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Wat My heart saved a lot of money on the furniture.
I wouldn't do it. Yeah, they cut corners and they
built it.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
I would force them to have to replace it.
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
up today.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Oh my god. I love seeing you all. Thank you.
I love to be here.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Thank you. And I love the fact that we're world
premiering a song on our show illegally.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
The album is The Rules anyway, Rules schmools.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
The song is called Honesty. It's Nellie for Toto from
the album set Tonight. Have you ever heard this on
the radio yet? You no no.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Volume?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Yes, speaker
From the 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 (00:16):
I bet Nate's out there just talking and talking and
farting and laughing.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Let her go. Nate's putting makeup on Nelly for Nate.
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 (00:52):
I want all the jewelry she has on It looks amazing.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
It's always nice to accessorize.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
No, 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 was like, what what were what song? Were we
talking about? You like, this is cool, it's very nice
and cool. I like that ring, look at that snake ring.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Let's just talk about let's just talk about accessories, let's talk.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Where we're Okay, I got it. I love headphones.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Do you.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Two days in a row people said that they live
because you know, sometimes we'll get people the option. We
don't have to do headphones now.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
They're fun, But I'm a narcissist. I like to hear
my voice like back in my hair, Like that's important.
I mean when it's got like the effects.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
You know, sure it's true.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I mean no one likes the rob recorded vocal. Right
when you hear your voice.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
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? Is that true?
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Apparently an Australian fan was like, actually, it's not tomorrow.
It's tonight in Australia, So yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
So when is it? When is it not for us?
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
For you? It's tomorrow Friday Friday. All the new albums
come out on Friday.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
They do.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Yeah, always come out on Friday Friday in Australia already,
isn't it.
Speaker 4 (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 3 (02:32):
I don't. I think.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Ahead. It's a mystery.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
This is the most confusing moment of mine.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Is it midnight international?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Midnight locally? Okay?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
So tonight and midnight the album comes out? Okay everywhere? Well,
I've got 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
wants to play it until it's time. But we're gonna
play it anyway, just to piss off, piss off everyone.
(03:09):
That's just the way it's gonna be. So this album,
you actually collaborated with your play whatever you with your
daughter on this album.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Oh my god. And guess what.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
It's her twenty first birthday tomorrow, one year old.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
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 1 (03:27):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
But it's great.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
So this is all the joy and beauty.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
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 saying we're not having fun now.
But you remember what year was this?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
What the here? Timbaland gave me the best beat in
the world. Well, if I DJ were with.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
My friends, if someone lets me take over the iPad
at a club or something, I play this song, so
I win every time. California by Tupuc wins. But but
this is right up there with it. Sorry, but that's
just listen.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I mean, this song is just it stands the testing.
I love it.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I love it. Of course it's karaoke. I'm karaoke with everybody.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
What about this one? Hold on hold?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Remember I love the song song It's finest? Yeah it was.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Yeah. I was actually twenty years old when I wrote
this on a on a guitar the traditional way I wrote.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
So I didn't know that I did. Yeah, such a
great song.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Thank you is being 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. We could all write I'm.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Like a rite and of course, uh, Timberlin, oh this
is my favorite. Give it to me your paying meta.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Like we are singing about being in the club listening
to our own song.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
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 gonna be weird. You're listening to a song about
you and 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):
There's my god, thanks, There's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
A list of other things going on too.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I'm just I'm just like, I put a lot of
energy into the album. I'm real like music.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
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 strategizing, 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.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
It's not fair.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
People don't get four years to make albums and just
long story, but I got four years, and it's like
it's really good.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I'm really proud of it.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I don't usually when people write albums, Nellie, when they
write an album, they're at a certain place in their life.
But four years, you've been a lot of places in
your life, so you've had time to write at for sure.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
For sure, Yeah, I definitely. I like to keep one
foot in the industry and one foot in a very
very normal life.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
I'm talking as normal as you can imagine that more
boring than that for tado, 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 I think that I need
that normal because it like I gotta get off the
(06:29):
wheel sometimes to feel you know.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
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.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
And the guy was like, you know what, every time
you come through, I've seen you three times now.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
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 low key. 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, let's talk about it.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
But I love the entertainer. Maybe that's why, because I
want to keep doing it. Love 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 to that. So you're
living a life of being an entertainer, but you're also
living a life of normalcy. Yeah, so our songs about
normalcy as exciting for us as so you know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
I mean, I'm not normal. I love a normal, but
I don't think my brain is like normal.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
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 attent of ADHD, so I could
do a lot of things at once.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
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 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.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Songs with like jessingers, like Michael Buble or like you know,
Andre Bochelly.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I have a song with a Game, I have a
song with n E.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
R D.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I have a song with a lot of different kinds
of dance acts.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Very diverse.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Yeah, so, and that's because I get board very easily.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
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, well, the song with Mamba Steradio
on this new album, yeah, my Portuguese. I sing a
little in Portuguese as well, So this is on the
new album. My new album has one song with some you.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Don't mind talking about collapse? Come on talking too quickly?
No 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.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Yeah, actually 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 is Blackie. He's on a song called Crown.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I've heard of Blackie.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yeah, there you go. Then you know Blackie? Yeah, so
Blackie's not on Crown.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
And then I've got this incredible artist, Charlotte Day 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 Sterio on
a Spanish song. I've got this really, I'm amazing singer
songwriter Grey Hawking on one song called Better for Worse.
So yeah, there's there's there's heartbreak, there's like there's there's
(09:08):
a little bit of everything, but you can also dance.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Well. I know that I know the song about to
pop in a few minutes is a damn song. It's
very rhythmic. Do you didn't even know what someone? I'm playing?
Speaker 4 (09:18):
See Lewis and Toblo 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
to in a while?
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Her and As she made a really cool, like really cool.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
They made a bunch of new songs together, and she's
she's working on her her new album and I love
I performed in New York with her in Brooklyn a
couple of weeks ago. We performed the song for the
first time together and me here and hy we love that.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Sho wait hold on, it's just turning a song by the.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Way, uh and the song my number one and dance
radio it did it really did? Yeah, 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. Nellie 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
tell this is this is your NiFe. No, no, do
not turn that down.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
I know a dial?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
What's up? Gandhi? Do not dial anything down Please don't no, no,
not allowed.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
When you're talking about collaborating, obviously you said you collaborated
with your daughter who's twenty one years old now tomorrow tomorrow,
Happy birthday, Navy, Happy birthday. 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
following mama's lead because you're you, she has opinions.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Of course she does.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
She's you raised her that way, super sertive and strong
willed from birth, so great person.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
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. Mom.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
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.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
And wait, hold on, what were you gonna do just
turn on auto tunes like shallow album like this.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Iles of music.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
But 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. Like does she do that to you
with anything else?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Oh my god, are you kidding me?
Speaker 4 (11:21):
When I first started using social media, she was a
teenager and she was sixteen, and I made the mistake
of being like.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Do you like this run on my Instagram?
Speaker 4 (11:28):
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.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
It's awesome. Well, you know why I've found 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 like a twin.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
You ever wanted two brains your friends?
Speaker 2 (12:02):
But do you do? You still still sometimes draw that
line between medding.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Yeah, yeah, I'm not. I'm not like party mom. It's
not how it goes down.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I was looking 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 4 (12:34):
Yeah, I'm pretty specific because I also co produce most
of my albums, so I'm a producer as well.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
So I sit there, I'm so picky.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
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 want to change the lyrics in the
first verse.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
So I'm very, very picky.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
I'm very like like sound librarian in the studio, and
I notice, like really things nobody probably notices, and it
tanged them at the last minute.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
So yeah, two minutes to five. Yeah, big difference. It
depends on the song.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
It depends on this, I guess.
Speaker 4 (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):
Well, it's your album, though at the end of the day,
it's yours.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
And I'm still second guessing it's on the last minute,
Like maybe I liked it, but I but we have
this song 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, they're just your songs.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
That makes it sound like it's your problem, right. I
wonder if anyone ever has ever produced a song and
they head it toussled 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, I I like short.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Songs, though lately a lot of a lot of songs are.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Short, and I would say, like, I like two and
a half minutes, but I'll do fortunately like the Weekend's
new song and love I love it.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
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.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
But see what I mean?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Why do I know that?
Speaker 2 (14:13):
What about people? A Custodaly, you have short attention span
and I need a shorter song because I'm like, that's what.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
I'm saying, 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 out
slightly longer, like three three and a half minutes, just right.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Notice that. Can't you take a song and like 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 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 y's the Queen?
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Actually I love that? Oh my god, I have to
see that live show.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
So what's your day 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?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yeah, yeah, god? Had you had like a five hour
massage yesterday?
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Oh my god? I will tell you exactly where to go.
Cotta leah, beauty and wellness.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Go there.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
It's really close. Oh my god, five hours, no way.
I did all kinds of sweet yees. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Oh like yesterday, I got a manicure, I got the
seven look seven.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
My album's called seven. But it went simple. You know,
it's very nice. But thanks. But yeah, I'll be talking
about it. I'll be excited.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
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.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Like one of my favorites.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Do you love producing tiktoks?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
It's like a hobby, you know what.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Let Neves do it all.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
No, no, no, I mean I have people to help me,
have a team, but I do a lot of my own.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
I just see you off in the corner and just
do it. I just see Nelly at home in bed,
lights off at four in the morning to making her
own ticketo 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 no, 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 shower, sing the song.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Yes, so 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?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
And that made me right. 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.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Yeah, right, and that's why I just got here.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
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 interviewal show at eight fifteen,
Like what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Yeah, you can't for radio.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
I grew up doing radio, right, I'm old school, Like
I was twenty when I started doing this, and I
traveled across.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
The entire country.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Well, thank god for you for radio stations A day here.
What she's saying, Katie Perry.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
The same.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
She's late, but she's a good friend. We allow her.
She's okay, she could be well, no one should be
allowed to be late. You're you're fine, you did great today.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Okay, thanks, Yeah, so I wasn't late.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
So Nellie for Tato. The album seven is out tonight
at midnight. But I'm going to play you an the
legal cut now.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
We like, Oh my god, please, we 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?
(17:37):
It makes it, it sounds sonically, it 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. Do a solo dance. Dance with Danielle?
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yeah, but this you can.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Get up on here. All right, let's go. Has anyone
ever done that? It won't hold anyone's.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Wat My heart saved a lot of money on the furniture.
I wouldn't do it. Yeah, they cut corners and they
built it.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
I would force them to have to replace it.
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
up today.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Oh my god. I love seeing you all. Thank you.
I love to be here.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Thank you. And I love the fact that we're world
premiering a song on our show illegally.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
The album is The Rules anyway, Rules schmools.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
The song is called Honesty. It's Nellie for Toto from
the album set Tonight. Have you ever heard this on
the radio yet? You no no.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Volume?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Yes, speaker
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