Canadian singer Nelly Furtado got an album-saving tip from an unlikely A&R, her 20-year-old daughter, Nevis.
Two months ahead of the release of Furtado's upcoming album, 7, the artist spoke to NME about Nevis suggesting that she didn't use a certain pitch-correcting tool.
"She’d literally be like, 'Mom, why are you using Auto-Tune on this song?' You think it sounds cool but it doesn’t," Furtado recalled about their conversation. "She also reminded me that people love my music because it’s three-dimensional, which made me dig even deeper."
The latter is especially true since Furtado hasn't needed Auto-Tune on her biggest songs, including "I'm Like a Bird," "Promiscuous," and "Say It Right."
Furtado's spoken about Auto-Tune before in a 2004 interview with MuchMusic, seen around the 12-minute mark below. While Furtado acknowledged that she'd used Auto-Tune "once," she called herself and her team "pretty pure in the studio."
"I have several songs in my album that are one take or just like a couple takes pieced together. But I guess sometimes you're looking for a certain sound or whatever," she said. But it's not Auto-Tune though it's not tuning your voice so it's in tune. Literally, it's just maybe just pasting two performances together."
She continued, "I guess sometimes, maybe when you're in eleventh hour in the studio or something and you maybe can't can't hit a particular load or something, then you maybe boost it up a tiny bit, I guess."
Furtado also pointed towards programs that make artists who "really can't sing at all be able to carry a tune" but that hearing it is "obvious."