Maneater (Nelly Furtado Song)
| Maneater | |
|---|---|
| Nelly Furtado | |
| publication | May 26, 2006 |
| length | 4:25 |
| Genre (s) | Electro-pop , dance-pop |
| Author (s) |
N. Furtado , TZ Mosley , N. Hills , JD Washington |
| music |
Timbaland , Danja , Jim Beanz |
| album | Loose |
Maneater is the first European Single of the Portuguese - Canadian pop - singer Nelly Furtado from her third studio album Loose , with whom she reported back after a year's break. The song was written by Furtado, Timbaland , Nate Hills and Jim Beanz and produced at Hit Factory in Miami , Florida . With Maneater she began to discover hip-hop for herself, which was probably also due to Timbaland, who produced the song and the album.
Maneater was the first single on the album and the European region was selected for the release. In the German-speaking area the CD was released on May 26, 2006, in the rest of Europe and Asia around a week later. In North America and Australia , however , Maneater did not hit stores until September 26, 2006 as the second single from Loose .
Production history
Maneater was one of the first songs Furtado and Timbaland worked on together at the Hit Factory Criteria Recording Studios in Miami , Florida . She described the song as an analogy of how she worked with the "creative energy" Timbalands and his team in Loose . While producing the album, Furtado and Timbaland were drawn from the work of musicians from the 1980s such as: B. Talking Heads , Blondie , Madonna , The Police and Eurythmics . Final production of the track was delayed after a fire broke out in the studio's control room. Furtado stated that Maneater was "a" couture pop "song". In an interview with MTV News, she described the song as follows: “It has a crazy, loud beat and the voices are snappy and loud. Lots of people say Maneater sounds like a Peaches song because of the creepy voices ”. The song is about an insecure relationship with a so-called "maneater", a charismatic and seductive woman who uses her charm to control and destroy the lives of men. According to Furtado, the song is related to people "feeling hot when they dance in front of the mirror in their underwear". “It just includes life itself; it makes you dance, ”she said during the media-initiated comparison with the Hall & Oates single" Maneater ", which Furtado named as inspiration for the song.
On January 8, 2006, a 30-second clip of the piece was released on the Internet and the full title on the 17th. This version has a different ending than the one on the album Loose . The rapper Lil Wayne , who Furtado referred to as "the most amazing freestyler in the world", is featured on a remix by Maneater . The music duo JoSH , who already produced a remix of the song Powerless (Say What You Want) , also developed another remix for Maneater . The Australian single also includes a cover of Gnarls Barkley's Crazy .
The song was nominated for Best International for the NRJ Music Awards .
Video
Anthony Mandler directed the video for Maneater . It was filmed primarily on Firestone Boulevard in South Gate , California over a period of over fourteen hours. The choreography was taken over by Frank Gatson, who u. a. worked with Beyoncé and Rihanna .
The video focuses on Furtado's request on the one hand on partying and on the other hand on the parody of a "man-murdering woman". It begins with Furtado looking for her runaway Great Dane Toby at night in an apparently deserted industrial area of a nameless city. She follows her dog to the basement of a dilapidated building, where she encounters a silent crowd. Furtado stands in the middle of the crowd and starts dancing at the beginning of the song. This serves the purpose of the catalyst of a dance party. In the video, Furtado is shown dancing an oriental dance , as well as other shots in which she stands in front of flames. Towards the end of the video, Furtado goes to the roof of the building and dances with the sun rising. At the end of the video, Furtado leaves the party at dawn and finds her dog waiting on a stair step near the exit.
The "Maneater" world premiere was on May 4, 2006 on MTV Germany on Total Request Live , better known as TRL, where it entered the TRL charts at number 9 the next day. In the United States, Yahoo! Music premiered on September 6th.
Charts
Maneater was made available for download (via iTunes ) on May 2, 2006. As a maxi-CD, it was released as the first single from the album outside of North America on May 26th in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, and on July 5th in Great Britain and other European countries. It debuted at number eight in the UK Top 40 the week before the CD was released, and reached number one a week later on July 11, 2006. The single stayed at the top of the chart for three weeks, and in the seventh week after its release, Nelly Furtado's record label withdrew the CD. Maneater left the charts three weeks later because the rules of the Official UK Charts Company prevent withdrawn songs from staying on the charts for more than two weeks. Maneater was Nelly Furtado's first single to hit # 1 in the UK and made her the first Canadian artist since Celine Dion with 1998's My Heart Will Go On , which was a number one hit on the UK charts .
The single became a hit across Europe. It reached the top 5 in Austria, Switzerland, Germany, New Zealand, Ireland and Norway as well as the top 10 in Belgium, Finland and the Netherlands and the top 20 in France. The video for "Maneater" premiered on September 8 in the United States. It debuted at number 62 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was the week's highest new entry. Maneater reached the top 20 in the US and number one on the official dance charts, but was not as commercially successful as Promiscuous , the first single from Loose in North America to top the charts . In Australia, Maneater reached the top 5 on September 25 and made it to number 3 the following week.
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particularities
In the English-speaking world, the term "maneater" describes a woman who frequently has sexual intercourse with alternating men. The term is humorous and roughly comparable to the German saying "Mannermordende ...", see Femme fatale .
Contributors
- Singing: Nelly Furtado
- Audio mix: Marcella Araica, Demacio Castellon
- Voice production: Jim Beanz
- Backing vocals: Jim Beanz, Timbaland
- Technicians: James Roach, Kobla Tetey
- Drums: Danja
- Keyboard: Danja
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maneater in the French charts on LesCharts.com
- ↑ Maneater in the Australian charts on Australian-Charts.com
- ↑ Maneater in the German charts on OfficialCharts.de
- ↑ Maneater in the Austrian charts on AustrianCharts.at
- ↑ Maneater in the Austrian charts on Hitparade.ch
- ↑ Maneater (Nelly-Furtado-Lied) in the Official UK Charts (English)
- Jump up ↑ Maneater in the US Singles Chart Billboard 200
- ↑ 'Hits of the World': Canada Digital Singles . In: Billboard Magazine full text in the Google Book Search . October 14, 2006.
- ↑ Maneater in the German annual charts 2006 on OfficialCharts.de
- ↑ Maneater in the Austrian annual charts 2006 on Austriancharts.at
- ↑ Maneater in the Swiss annual charts 2006 on Hitparade.ch