Poor Album Sales Don’t Bother Nelly Furtado

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She might not be flying like a bird with her latest album sales, but Nelly Furtado won't let that stop her from making music.

Her new album, The Spirit Indestructible, is the follow-up to her 2009 Spanish-language album Mi Plan. Before that was her career-boosting album Loose, which featured her hit single, "Promiscuous." The Spirit Indestructible failed to meet album expectations, selling a mere 6,000 copies (debuting at 79 on Billboard) compared to Loose's 219,000 in its first week (in which it debuted at number one).

"Just like a lot of my albums, actually. I have very few albums that debut high," Furtado said. "I've had kind of everything happen to me commercially and at different levels," she says. "I've had different scenes and I've dabbled in a lot of markets so I see the music world as very global and I'm always looking for new avenues and opportunities, so one chart or anything doesn't necessarily [mean anything]."

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Nelly Furtado Wants a More ‘Professional’ Image

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Nelly Furtado wants to be seen as a more "professional" singer.

The 33-year-old star is known for her raunchy image and risque lyrics in songs like "Promiscuous Girl," but says the birth of her daughter Nevis eight years ago made her want to appear more sophisticated and encouraged her to censor her songs.

"From (Nevis' birth) forward I've been looking at my career in a more professional way. Before, I was just floating down the river and not really sure what I was doing. Writing-wise I keep her in mind - the tone of things, how I present myself," she said.

The Canadian star has even replaced the word "promiscuous" with "mysterious" in her infamous hit song when she performs it live. "I guess I wanted to show that the song's still a good song without that word in it. It's still melodic," she explained.

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Nelly Furtado: Being a Mother Has Made My Music More Joyful

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Nelly Furtado's music is more "joyful" since she became a mother.

The "Maneater" hitmaker is more aware of her surroundings since having daughter Nevis, eight, and says she has a huge influence on her music: "Once you become a parent it kind of forces you to look more outside yourself and become a little more in the moment, which is kind of great because an artist's life can be one of solitude. I find my songs become more joyful, fun and inspired."

Nelly added also said she is more "in tune" with the rest of the world, and produces more collaborations, rather than writing songs alone with her guitar. The 33-year-old singer spoke of her move into Latin music with her last album Mi Plan and how it has boosted her confidence. "I broke into a whole other world. I really felt like Alice in Wonderland, you know, just kind of falling down the rabbit hole. I woke up in a brand new world. Just creating in Spanish, recording in Spanish and performing in Spanish has given me a lot of strength as a vocalist," she said.

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Nelly Furtado Takes Advice from Children

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Nelly Furtado rewrote her album to please her daughter.

The Canadian-born singer recorded her new album Mi Plan at home and paid careful attention to the advice she was given by five-year-old Nevis - her child with husband Demacio Castellon - when comprising the final track listing.

“I had English writer’s block so I decided to make an album in Spanish. I played it to my daughter and she said to me, ‘Mummy there are too many slow songs. You need more fast songs,’” Furtado said. “So mummy went back to the studio and put a couple more fast songs on the album. She’s like a little A and R person and is pretty musical for her age.”

While the Spanish album took the “Maneater” star in a new direction, she is already thinking ahead to her next direction and wants to collaborate with ‘Bulletproof’ hitmaker La Roux.

“I love La Roux and I’m there for a collaboration. It would be fun,” she told Britain’s Daily Star newspaper. “It’s fantastic how popular dance music is right now and I’d love to do something more dancey in the future. It would be something natural for me to do because I started out in trip hop and dance has always been a part of my music.”

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