Furtado: 'Spanish helps express emotion'

Nelly Furtado has said that the Spanish she uses on her new album helps her express her emotions better than English.

The star's follow-up to 2006's Loose is titled Mi Plan and is sung entirely in Spanish.

Furtado told Metro: "I'd been working on Portuguese and Spanish music for a while. I really like Latin pop's melodies and it allows me to express emotions in a fuller way. It felt like English was for communicating more basic feelings.

"Look at the video for my first single, 'Manos Al Aire' - I seem so angry but the chorus says, 'My hands are in the air, let's work this out'. If I did that in English, I'd either get labelled as furious or sappy."

She added: "I don't see success in terms of selling more albums, it's more about broadening your audience. It's difficult to reinvent yourself as a new discovery after ten years.

"Who wouldn't want to create a sense of familiarity in many different places? Who knows, someone in Kazakhstan could play one of my MP3s and feel an emotion - that's really cool."