Nelly Furtado: Tiny Desk Concert

Nelly Furtado’s career has spanned a quarter-century, not to mention tens of millions of records sold, so it’s tough to fit all the highlights into a single Tiny Desk concert. But damned if Furtado didn’t at least try: Her set featured a bunch of her biggest hits (“Promiscuous,” “Say It Right,” “I’m Like A Bird,” “Maneater”), her remix of Missy Elliott’s “Get Ur Freak On” and, yes, a brand-new single called “Love Bites.” In all, 11 tracks — some of them complete, some of them truncated into medleys — made the cut.

For this set, Furtado assembled eight of her favorite veteran collaborators, who joined her in organically re-creating her busy, glitchy pop sound without relying on backing tracks. That meant incorporating everything from a violin to cowbell to beatboxing to scratching courtesy of DJ Lil Jaz — Furtado and Lil Jaz have a daughter together, Nevis, who served as the set’s creative director — in a performance that felt like a victory lap, a greatest-hits reel and a homecoming all at once.

SET LIST

• “Say It Right”
• “Explode”
• “Powerless (Say What You Want)”
• “Promiscuous”
• “All Good Things (Come To An End)”
• “I'm Like A Bird”
• “Get Ur Freak On (Remix)”
• “Love Bites”
• “Eat Your Man”
• “Give It To Me”
• “Maneater”

MUSICIANS

• Nelly Furtado: lead vocals
• Hrag Sanbalian: keys, musical direction
• Daniel Stone: percussion
• William Lamoureux: violin
• Brian West: guitar
• Lionel Jarvis: bass
• Jim Beanz: vocals
• Anjulie Persaud: vocals
• DJ Lil’ Jaz: DJ

TINY DESK TEAM

• Producer: Bobby Carter
• Director/Editor: Kara Frame
• Audio Technical Director: Neil Tevault
• Videographers: Kara Frame, Maia Stern, Joshua Bryant, Alanté Serene
• Audio Engineer: Carleigh Strange
• Production Assistant: Ashley Pointer
• Photographer: Michael Zamora
• Tiny Desk Copy Editor: Hazel Cills
• Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed
• Series Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson
• VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins