Nelly Furtado Says She Has a Song for a Taylor Swift Collaboration: ‘She’s an Icon!’
The “Maneater” singer will drop her new album, ‘7,’ this September
Nelly Furtado has a song picked out for a potential collaboration with Taylor Swift.
The “Maneater” singer, 45, shared in an interview with Extra shared on Thursday, July 11 that she penned a tune for Swift, 34, that the Eras touring star hasn’t heard yet.
“I have a song for Taylor,” she said, noting the track was produced by Australian EDM artist Dom Dolla, who is a pal of Swift’s boyfriend Travis Kelce. “Dom is friends with Travis, so let’s get it poppin’! We want Taylor on it!”
“It kind of surreal for me,” Furtado said to Extra. “I take these long breaks away from music and sometimes I feel like a music librarian trapped in a pop star’s body, so every time I come back out from the woods I’m like ‘I’m back from the woods! I’m back from my cave!’ ”
“I meet other artists and they like my music, like a Taylor Swift, it’s kind of like, ‘Oh f—, that’s cool!” she continued. “‘Really, you were singing my song at a party?’ You kind of forget that you’ve been around awhile.”
“She’s an icon!” Furtado gushed during a July 11 sit-down on Today with Hoda and Jenna. “That it’s such a beautiful flow of life to know that your songs made an impact 20 years later Because you second guess yourself and you go, ‘Oh, maybe it was just a thing, a trend.’ But then when you see new generations enjoying your music, it becomes very real.”
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Swift made no secret of her love for Furtado as the two chatted backstage at the 2023 VMAs.
“I was like, screaming, ‘I’m Like a Bird’ the other day,” Swift told Furtado, in a video shared to the latter singer’s TikTok. “Versatility, dude. You can do anything, you can do anything.”
Furtado then complimented Swift on her songwriting and said “every time you write another amazing song, I’m like, ‘She did it again!’ ”
Fans of Furtado (Swift included) will surely say she did it again when she drops her new album, 7, in September.
