Nelly [Q]+[A]|

 

As promised, USA TODAY's Donna Freydkin picked a few of the questions you submitted for Nelly Furtado, and served as your proxy interviewer. Here are the five questions she asked on your behalf, plus Nelly's responses. And check out Donna's story as well:

 

Ron P asked, "Do you feel more freedom from the 'pop star' image you projected just a few years ago? Whose idea was it to change your image? (It was for the best in my opinion!)

 

NF: "I was always that kid in high school who would show up with different outfits every day. One day, preppy. One day, skater. One day, hippie. It was always in my nature to try everything. That's what my career will always be like. I'm always going to be changing. My styling reflects my personality at the time. It's never premeditated with me - I go with my heart because I'm a really bad liar."

 

Gilda Pujadas: "Nelly, I really love your songs, especially Fotografia, your dueto with Juanes, so, tell me, will we be hearing in the future more songs in Spanish from you? Your Latin American fans will be happy hear that's so!"

 

NF: "I'm planning on recording a full-length Spanish and Portuguese album with Gustavo Santaolalla. He's the one who won the Oscar for Brokeback Mountain. This will be some time in the next three or four years, definitely."

 

Lambert: "Nelly, was it a big step for you to come out with a hip-hop flavor this time around?"

 

NF: "Luckily, I've collaborated with so many hip-hop artists in the past that it was second nature to me. Luckily, it was also my first love as a teenager. I've collaborated with hip-hop artists like Missy Elliott and The Roots. I became comfortable doing it. I really love to rap on stage and love to sing R&B-style songs on stage. It's really natural to me."

 

Rachel Meddar: "I know you have mentioned in interviews that your almost-3-year-old daughter, Nevis, has had a major influence on the youthful and vibrant sound that is heard on Loose, and you credit her for that sound. I was wondering if there was anyone else or an event in your life that has also influenced/impacted Loose.

 

NF: "Probably just being in Miami, being in that energy and around the Latin vibe and the heat and the festive environment. Timbaland is just a liberating person. He brings out another side of myself as an artist. I'm thinking about moving there! I'm having a real love affair with Miami right now. But I do love Toronto also, where I live."

 

And, closing the session in suitably intellectual style, here's Will: "My question: Oh, my lord! Where did you get that body?!"

 

NF: "After I had a child, my body changed and became more curvaceous."

Edited September 8, 200618 yr by Jake

Thanks for that Jake..

 

Makes for good reading :)

I'm always going to be changing

 

Lets hope back to her folklore ways! :D

 

 

I'm always going to be changing

 

Lets hope back to her folklore ways! :D

 

 

Well a Spanish/Portugese album in the next 3/4 yrs, could be interesting but a waste of space methinks at the same time -_-