Nelly Furtado says it was Drake’s thought to have her carry out “I’m Like a Chicken” at his OVO All-Canadian North Stars live performance in 2022.
The Canadian singer-songwriter, 45, lately appeared on the Zach Sang Present to speak about her shock look on the rapper’s historic present in Toronto that noticed her carry out excerpts of her Timbaland-assisted 2006 hit “Promiscuous” and her Y2K debut single “I’m Like a Chicken.”
“I used to be like, ‘Drake, why don’t I do, like, one in every of your songs? I obtained bars, you already know?’” Furtado quipped. “After which he is like, ‘Mmm, no, we do not have sufficient time to rehearse that. That is not going to go off proper.’”
As an alternative, Drake steered “I’m Like a Chicken.” Though the track was a significant hit all these years in the past, Furtado implied she was type of confused by his request and steered “Promiscuous” as a substitute.
“He is like, ‘Yeah, however for positive you bought to do ‘I am Like a Chicken.’ I used to be actually hesitant to … I do not know, it is simply out of context,” she confessed.
Drake’s instincts proved to be proper and the efficiency turned out to be a significant success. One fan’s video of the shock look has garnered almost a million views on YouTube.
The efficiency was additionally a significant second for Furtado, which she says led her to find extra confidence inside herself after a virtually five-year hiatus from the stage.
“I simply obtained on the market after which it’s true, we did ‘I’m Like a Chicken’ and it was an actual second, and he was actually like ‘I informed you so!’” Furtado mentioned.
She continued, “That was a superb second for me as a result of I had performed lots of work on myself internally, I’d say, up till the years—these 5 years not being on stage. After I obtained on the market, what hit me was, ‘Oh my God, I am a very completely different girl now,’ you already know? I can obtain this, I might be right here, I might be current otherwise. I’ve a lot extra to supply at this job like, ‘Wow, I suppose I used to be fairly good at this at one level,’ you already know what I imply?”
“What if I deliver all this new data about myself, all this new confidence, all this new self-love into what I am doing now? Then I believe I simply leaned into that like, ‘Wow, I am an entire new particular person within the studio as a result of I obtained new boundaries. I obtained new self love,’” she added.
Furtado is gearing as much as launch 7, her aptly-titled seventh studio album, on Sept. 20. The LP will probably be her first album since 2017’s The Experience.
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