{"id":691508,"date":"2026-03-30T02:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T02:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/691508\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T02:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T02:57:11","slug":"nelly-furtado-returns-with-new-music-after-quitting-industry-over-body-shaming-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/691508\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelly Furtado returns with new music after quitting industry over body-shaming comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nelly Furtado has returned to the spotlight in the most spectacular way almost six months after announcing she was quitting music for the \u201cforeseeable future\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Back in October, the Canadian singer shocked fans when she revealed she was <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/entertainment\/music\/nelly-furtado-quitting-music-after-facing-rash-of-attacks-by-body-shamers\/news-story\/d1749e448d998e63fc7a617403bf1529\" target=\"_blank\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\" data-tgev-order=\"d1749e448d998e63fc7a617403bf1529\" data-tgev-label=\"entertainment\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">stepping away from the stage<\/a> to focus on other \u201ccreative and personal endeavours\u201d in the wake of body-shaming comments she received from social media trolls.<\/p>\n<p>However, in the last few days, Furtado has re-emerged at various industry events in her home country looking happier and more fashionable than ever.<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, the singer wore a midnight blue silk bodysuit under a matching power suit to the Women\u2019s College Hospital Foundation\u2019s 15th Annual Women for Women\u2019s event in Toronto, where she was recognised as the 2026 Trailblazer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing surrounded by so many inspiring women and their stories was a beautiful reminder of how important community and supporting one another is!\u201d she <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DWWdEJaEUDc\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">captioned a carousel of photos<\/a> from the event on Instagram. <\/p>\n<p>On Monday, she then frocked up for the Juno Awards in Ontario, where she was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. <\/p>\n<p>Walking the red carpet at the venue, Furtado looked stunning in an eye-catching red and black floor-length ballgown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m thrilled to celebrate with my fellow community of Canadian musicians!\u201d she wrote on Instagram ahead of the ceremony. \u201cI\u2019m feeling so grateful (and nervous!).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, the singer also wowed in a skin-tight, brown maxi dress as she teased her upcoming new single with a high-energy video featuring producer Boi-1da.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew muuuusic! Excited to share this and grateful to be part of this exciting collabo @boi1da x @perfectpitchcanada x @canadasoccer,\u201d she wrote alongside the clip. \u201cElectric Circus out April 10!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This marks the first time since in two years that Furtado will drop new music. Her last album, 7, which was aptly her seventh studio album, was released back in 2024. <\/p>\n<p>The singer\u2019s fans are equally excited for her new music and return to the spotlight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeees! PLEASE DON\u2019T STOP TO MAKE MUSIC. Real fans love you. 7 is still on repeat,\u201d one commented on Instagram, as another wrote, \u201cThat\u2019s great! She should keep doing music.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHappy you are happy! You look and are amazing,\u201d commented one user wrote, with another excitedly saying, \u201cYesssss we are ready Miss Nelly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When the online body-shaming attacks over her onstage outfits and body reached fever-pitch last year, Furtado subsequently made a pointed fashion statement while headlining Manchester Pride in August.<\/p>\n<p>She stepped on stage in an oversized optical illusion T-shirt with a cartoon hourglass body outline in a cinched up crop top, miniskirt and belt reading \u201cWhoa Nelly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The back of the cartoon-emblazoned shirt read, \u201cBetter than ever\u201d in a tattoo font.<\/p>\n<p>However, just two months later, the singer was ready for a break from the spotlight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c25 years later, my music has reached a whole new generation of fans and I couldn\u2019t be happier about that,\u201d she wrote via Instagram at the time. \u201cAll this aside, I have decided to step away from performance for the foreseeable future and pursue some other creative and personal endeavours that I feel would better suit this next phase of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have enjoyed my career immensely, and I still love writing music as I have always seen it as a hobby I was lucky enough to make into a career,\u201d she continued, adding that she\u2019ll \u201cidentify as a songwriter forever\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nelly Furtado has returned to the spotlight in the most spectacular way almost six months after announcing she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":691509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[5229,289689,289683,2147,289677,289688,289685,289678,289681,289692,171,289687,289694,289691,289695,289684,164299,587,33386,2150,95947,289682,289676,289686,289680,10413,289693,289675,289679,83309,289690,8790,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-691508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-america","tag-belt-reading","tag-blue-silk-bodysuit","tag-canada","tag-canadian-musicians","tag-canadian-singer","tag-cartoon-hourglass","tag-cartoon-emblazoned-shirt-read","tag-christine-salazar","tag-electric-circus","tag-entertainment","tag-fashionable-return","tag-home-country-looking","tag-hospital-inc","tag-industry-events","tag-love-writing-music","tag-nelly-furtado","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-ontario","tag-optical-illusion","tag-personal-endeavours","tag-pointed-fashion-statement","tag-quit-horror-film","tag-real-fans-love","tag-red-carpet","tag-social-media-trolls","tag-spectacular-way","tag-star-quit-horror","tag-studio-album","tag-tattoo-font","tag-toronto","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}