Furtado replies, “That’s the price you pay for being passionate about music and refusing to believe it’s your job all these years. It’s just still seeing it as a hobby. My poor manager. He’s suffered many grey hairs because of it. I’m just really hard headed and I just do what I want to do. Some people come along, some people don’t. I’ve made my hobby into a career, but sometimes I still look at it as a hobby so I don’t always make the best quote unquote career choices. But I enjoy it every step of the way, which I think is the most important thing.”
Eh, she seems to have a bit of a hard time balancing her artistic ego and facing reality
I can see what she's saying but there has to be some middle ground. And her being aware of what she's doing and still pursuing that path is very reckless for her careers longevity
Won't matter if you're "true" to yourself and you get dropped, then you won't have money to work with the producers you need or have a label to help distribute your music, or get radio play, or even have people aware you're out
And based on how TSI is doing, it doesnt seem like Nelly is the kind of artist who can go grassroots and do well
In 2007, she played a private gig for Muammar Qaddafi, who reportedly paid Furtado $1 million, which a few months before the Libyan dictator was killed in 2011 she announced would be donated to charity, half to build a girls’ boarding school in Kenya.
Asked how or if her deeper thoughts get into her music, she says, “I think it’s depends. On a song called Bucket List, you could go on a million sky dives, but if you’re by yourself with nobody to hold your hand on your death bed, then what is it all worth? If you put love at the bottom of the list, what’s the point of a bucket list? That’s the whole point of the song.”
She has another on The Spirit Indestructible called “Arab Spring,” a weighty title indeed.
“It’s not a political song,” she says. “It comes from me looking at footage of TV, like the Libyan rebels, and feeling wow, myself as a young Canadian, I have no idea what it’s like to live through a war. I have no idea what it’s like to walk in a battle with my best friend by my side, and then lose my best friend to the other side, or to have lost my friend because of his own ideology vs. mine.
Two of the best songs off the album and their meaning behind
I mean, when you have a lot of already successful albums under your belt, you don't really need to chase the big hits anymore. I wonder what her label thinks about their multi-million dollar investment thinking of her profession as a "hobby."
didnt knew this one!
