Maneater

Nelly Furtado began work on "Maneater" at the Hit Factory Criteria recording studios in Miami, where it was one of the first songs she and Timbaland developed for her third album, Loose. Written with Timbaland, Danja, and Jim Beanz, the track drew on the 1982 Hall & Oates song of the same name and on 1980s artists such as Talking Heads, Blondie, and Eurythmics. Furtado described it as an analogy for how she absorbed the creative energy of Timbaland's production crew, and characterized the finished song as "couture pop".

Recording did not go smoothly. A speaker caught fire in the studio control room while Furtado was laying down the track, an incident that left her spooked. She feared the music itself had somehow caused the flames, and the song was put away for a few weeks until the group had the courage to play it again. She later joked that they felt the beat had the devil in it, and that someone almost got first-degree burns.

Released to mainstream radio in the United States in July 2006, the single topped the UK chart and reached the top ten across much of Europe and Australia. It became a club hit in North America, reaching number one on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play chart, though it did not match the commercial success of "Promiscuous". The song was later performed on Furtado's Get Loose Tour, and Daryl Hall, for his part, called it "theft" in a 2008 interview at SXSW.