“Maneater,” welcome to the Spotify Billions Membership. Nelly Furtado’s huge 2006 hit has surpassed one billion streams on Spotify. It’s Furtado’s second tune to succeed in that milestone on the platform following “Promiscuous,” her chart-topping Timbaland duet from the identical 12 months.
Furtado wrote “Maneater” with Timbaland, Danja, and Jim Beanz. Timbaland and Danja produced the monitor, which reached No. 16 on the Billboard Sizzling 100 and climbed to No. 2 in Furtado’s native Canada, the place it additionally grew to become the second greatest promoting digital monitor of 2006.
Talking to Rolling Stone within the lead-up to Free’s launch, Furtado described “Maneater” as “a ‘couture pop’ song,” drawing comparisons to the work of electroclash singer Peaches: “It’s got a crazy loud beat, and the vocals are bitchy and loud.” Additionally in Rolling Stone, critic Rob Sheffield famous that whereas “Maneater” has no connection to the Corridor & Oates tune of the identical title, it “bumps hard enough to qualify as a sequel, and that’s high praise indeed.” Essential reward for “Maneater” continued all through 2006; at 12 months’s finish, it ranked extremely on the Village Voice’s annual Pazz & Jop critics’ ballot.
Furtado labored carefully with Timbaland on Free, the 2006 album that yielded “Maneater” and “Promiscuous” in addition to the No. 1 hit “Say It Right,” which is properly on its option to an eventual Billions Membership induction of its personal. The next 12 months, after the blockbuster success of Free and Justin Timberlake’s Timbaland-produced FutureSex/LoveSounds, the three artists joined forces on one other No. 1 smash, “Give It To Me,” which functioned as a victory lap for the cohort’s reign over mid-2000s pop music.
It’s not an exaggeration to say Furtado and her crew have been on hearth on the time. In 2010, she instructed the BBC a speaker burst into flames whereas recording “Maneater” on the Hit Manufacturing facility in Miami: “We put that beat on, and it was so rumbling and rapturous and pagan that it incited a fire! We actually were scared of the beat. We felt like it had the devil in it, or something. We put it away for a few weeks, until we had the courage to play it again. It was life-threatening! Someone almost got first-degree burns.”
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