Still one of my favorite Nelly Furato songs is Say it Right and hard to believe it’s been 20 years since its single release.
GRAMMY® Award-winning, multiplatinum singer, songwriter, and producer Nelly Furtado celebrates the 20th anniversary of her landmark third studio album, Loose, with the release of the 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition on September 4, 2026. Available as a 2LP Color Vinyl and an expanded digital edition across all streaming platforms, the collection celebrates one of the defining pop albums of the 2000s with previously unreleased music, rare session recordings, and new interpretations of fan favorites. Additionally, 300 copies of the 2LP Red & White Vinyl will include a new lithograph of the original album artwork personally signed by Nelly.
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Originally released on June 7, 2006, Loose marked a defining creative evolution for Furtado. Produced alongside Timbaland, the album fused pop, R&B, electro, Latin, house, new wave, folk, and reggaeton into a fearless, genre-blurring sound that reshaped mainstream pop. Featuring the global hits “Promiscuous” featuring Timbaland, “Maneater,” and “Say It Right,” Loose debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, has sold more than 10 million copies worldwide, and earned 3x Platinum certification in the United States.
The album produced three of Furtado’s biggest career-defining singles. “Promiscuous” reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, earned 7x Platinum certification from the RIAA, and has since surpassed 2 billion Spotify streams. Billboard Canada recently recalled, “The track instantly became a standout, going on to become one of the album’s biggest hits and a key pillar in shaping Furtado’s career.” “Maneater” is certified 2x Platinum and has amassed more than 1.2 billion Spotify streams, while “Say It Right” has earned 4x Platinum certification and surpassed 1.1 billion Spotify streams. Between “Promiscuous” and “Say It Right,” Furtado spent a combined seven weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100.
The era also earned Furtado GRAMMY® Award nominations for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals for “Promiscuous” and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for “Say It Right.” Two decades later, Loose continues to be recognized as one of pop’s defining albums, with Parade recalling, “2000s pop queen Nelly Furtado took over the airwaves with her 2006 album Loose, which features legendary hits like ‘Promiscuous,’ ‘Say It Right,’ and ‘Maneater.'” Pitchfork declared simply, “It makes you move.”
The expanded digital edition features 28 tracks, including 10 bonus recordings that further illuminate one of the most celebrated creative periods of Furtado’s career. The collection includes three previously unreleased Loose-era session tracks, two previously unreleased 2024 recordings, four newly reimagined versions of fan favorites, and a previously unreleased secret demo.
At the heart of the Deluxe Edition are four newly reimagined versions of Loose favorites – including “Maneater (RITUAL VERSION)”—created in collaboration with Grammy nominated classical instrumental piano soloist and composer, Adam Tendler. Recorded entirely acoustically with just piano and voice, the performances were captured in single takes and improvised in the moment, allowing Furtado to revisit the songs from a new perspective two decades later.
Furtado shares, “At the core of performance is interpretation. To sing is to interpret. Being able to interpret my own repertoire, and the repertoire of others is my favorite part of singing.
“Choosing the cadence, notes, embellishments, and delivery of the voice is where freedom is found as a singer. My favorite approach to this craft is through improvisation. My four new recordings of songs from Loose allow me to find new resonance within the themes of the songs at this current stage of my life as I approach midlife. It was a pleasure to spend an afternoon with Adam Tendler as he provided the perfect, adventurous musical foil, as we journeyed on a one-take improvisational voyage and found new hymns and trances within the Loose ‘canon.'”
Tendler adds, “Nelly and I were musical pen pals long before she invited me to join her in reimagining these four songs from Loose — songs that are timeless in part because of their complexity and darkness. It was this shadow world we inhabited during our one-day, 11-hour recording session, creating several versions of each song in a single take, completely acoustic (piano/voice), and improvising them on the spot. To me, they have the arc of a song cycle.
The reimagined recordings are the latest chapter in Furtado’s ongoing exploration of the Loose catalog. Last year, she revisited one of the album’s signature songs with a series of “Say It Right” remixes from acclaimed producers Deborah De Luca, Adana Twins, Rinzen, and Nala. Stereogum awarded the original track a 9/10, writing, “On ‘Say It Right,’ it all comes together.” The FADER also revisited the making of Loose, praising Furtado’s creative chemistry with Timbaland, while Tame Impala offered its own celebrated rendition of “Say It Right” during Annie Mac’s BBC Radio 1 session.
