Nelly Furtado speaks exclusively with GAY TIMES about her ‘sexy, confident and cool’ new album, Mighty Hoopla and her history with the LGBTQIA+ community.
WORDS BY SAM DAMSHENAS SPECIAL THANKS TO STEPHANIE DUNCAN-BOSU “I really think I’m serving,” says Nelly Furtado.
We can confirm that that is quite correct: over the past year, the Canadian Prime Minister of Pop, Folk-Pop and Urban [insert any genre here, really] has been having a well-deserved resurgence (thank f**k) with her exhilarating techno-house anthem ‘Eat Your Man’ and the Tove Lo, SG Lewis-assisted dance banger ‘Love Bites’, both of which will be included on her upcoming seventh studio album – her first since 2017’s fan-favourite The Ride.
With her new material, which she describes as “super melodic” and non-stop “bangers”, Nelly wants her fans to feel – in her word(s) – “ugh!”: “I’ve served with this [new album].