Nelly Furtado confirms that “Maneater” set a speaker on fire in the studio:
“Timbaland said: ‘I made this beat for you’ and played it super loud. Suddenly I smelled burning, there was all this smoke and a flame shot out of the speaker. Someone came to replace the speaker but it freaked us out: maybe we should put this song away till tomorrow. And we worked on a different song. It was a super weird start to ‘Maneater,’ but a great start to the album.”