Nelly Furtado has defended her decision to drop pop and move into the R&B arena. Furtado worked with hit producer Timbaland on her new album ?Loose? that hits the shops next month. Speaking to Billboard Fortado said: "For a long time I kind of denied my R&B and hip-hop roots. "All that rap and R&B I listened to as a kid made an impression on me; I used to write R&B songs in my bedroom that sounded like Mariah Carey songs. "Now I'm tapping into that again, and I'm like, 'Wow, I didn't know I could go back there.' It feels so good." "I think now I have more separation between what I do as a songwriter and what I do as an artist."
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