Yes,” Furtado recently confirmed to The Guardian when asked if the rumor was true. It was her very first day working on her 2006 album Loose with producers Timbaland and Danja, she explained, when Timbaland said “‘I made this beat for you’ and played it super loud.

Nelly Furtado set a speaker on fire when recording her song Maneater. The 45-year-old singer has recalled how flames burst out of the speaker as she recorded her 2006 hit when a beat got "played super loud" by producer Timbaland.

Nelly Furtado has recalled how a studio speaker ended up on fire when she first started recording her hit 2006 song 'Maneater'.