My paparrazi moment…

Walking in my neighbourhood Friday night and this guy gives me a notice. Turns out he was from a film company and the notice was about the use of the streets in my ‘hood Saturday June 27. I read it then ask him who the video was for and he told me Nelly Furtado…

OK let me just say, BIG Nelly Furtado fan. When I went to school in London ON, her album Loose kept me sane on my 2hr drive between London and the GTA. I was just saying to my new friend Melinda, who I met at an assignment this week, that if there was any artist I would want to be friends with it would be her because from what I’ve seen of her in interviews, she seems down to earth and level headed. So the fact that she was gonna be steps away from my place was just incredible.

So I went home and called Melinda and she was as excited as I was and she planned to come by on Saturday so we could catch our glimpse of Nelly. We then tried to figure out what song she was doing the video for. I knew exactly where to look to find out; days earlier I had seen a tweet on Twitter by Perez Hilton, who I must say I am guilty of following, with a link for the preview of her new song. So I went back to it, followed the link and listened to the preview on his website. The song is Manos Al Aire off her upcoming spanish language album. So I thought Great! Found the song, like it, but no idea what she’s saying.

Woke up on Saturday kind of late, was exhausted from the work week. I hear nothing, so I’m thinking production hasn’t started yet. This is around 11AM, laid in bed for a while longer then decided to take a walk to see if they were on one of the other roads listed on the notice. YUP!! She was there… I immediately text messaged Melinda to come over now. Then I got on twitter and started giving the play by play (click the link).

There was a small audience, I realized I forgot my camera. I ran home and got it. Came back started taking pictures and short video clips of Nelly. This is how I spent my Saturday June 27, 2009. Melinda and I took short breaks and went back to my house to get out of the sun.

I must say Nelly is a trooper. They had her in the Sun all day. Melinda and I were exhausted from being in the Sun and we weren’t even working…so I can imagine how tired her and the crew were. The shoot lasted until 10:30 PM when Nelly got driven away in a black Hummer.