Trynna Finda Way

Album: Whoa, Nelly! (2000)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song was inspired by Beat poets Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, as well as Jim Carroll's novel The Basketball Diaries. Furtado delivers some of the lines in a spoken Beat style, and the lyrics deal with themes of searching for truth and meaning.
  • "Trynna Finda Way" is part of Nelly Furtado's first album, Whoa, Nelly!, released when she was 21. She was born and raised in Victoria, British Columbia, but moved to Toronto when she was 17 and made a mark in the burgeoning trip-hop scene. DreamWorks Records signed her, impressed with her modern sound and pop sensibility. She also had a video-friendly look and wrote her own songs. The album's first two singles, "I'm Like A Bird" and "Turn Off The Light," were both hits. It got even better when she teamed with producer Timbaland on her 2006 album Loose, which went to #1 in America and included the hit "Promiscuous."
  • Furtado wrote the song with her producers, Gerald Eaton and Brian West.

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