Nelly Furtado has revealed a slate of new remixes of her classic hits “Say it Right” and “Maneater.”
In celebration of Women’s History Month, the veteran pop star plans to share reimagined versions of the tracks by Deborah De Luca, Rinzen, Adana Twins and Nala throughout March. The first in the bunch, a remix of “Say It Right” by Solamente Records label head Deborah De Luca, is out now—the series will culminate with Mi Domina label owner Nala’s rendition of “Maneater,” due on March 28th.
“Say It Right” first appeared on Furtado’s third full-length album, 2006’s Loose, and quickly skyrocketed to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Now 4x RIAA-platinum certified, the Timbaland-produced track earned a Grammy nomination for Best Female Vocal Performance—its music video has amassed over a billion YouTube views since its release.
“Maneater” also first appeared on Loose, famously interpolating (but not quite covering) Hall & Oates’ 1982 hit of the same name. As Rolling Stone’s Rob Sheffield wrote of the track upon its release: “[It] bumps hard enough to qualify as a sequel, and that’s high praise indeed.”
Speaking to The Fader in 2016 on the recording of Loose, Furtado recalled: “We were doing this like a garage band, writing and recording as we went, and sometimes mixing and doing vocals. It wasn’t the traditional, we’re gonna do a bunch of demos and then I’m gonna re-sing everything. It was very-real time. This thing was really unorthodox in terms of how it sounded; it didn’t have that extra sheen that a lot of pop records had at the time. The distortion, the weird shit, we left it all on there.”
Listen to the remix of “Say It Right” now.
