Watch Good Kid's rollicking cover of Nelly Furtado's 'I'm Like a Bird'
The 2025 Juno Awards are March 30, and CBC Music is officially in celebration mode. In the lead up to the awards, we're presenting the Juno Sessions: a series in which emerging musicians cover songs by artists who have previously won the coveted songwriter of the year award.
To start things off, Toronto's Good Kid brought their indie rock edge to Nelly Furtado's 2000 breakout hit, "I'm Like a Bird." The band received their first Juno nom in 2024 for breakthrough group of the year.
Good Kid were drawn to the "timeless nature" of the song, telling CBC Music in an interview that "it didn't feel like it had aged at all." They created a hybrid of the song's arrangement, uncovering interesting chord progressions and adding a heavy guitar sound that doesn't exist in the original.
"We realized, even though it sounds really good and simple and easy to sing along to, it's actually a very complex song with lots of stuff in it. And one of the joys of covering things like this is, it allows you to look at all those details and really appreciate them."
Furtado won the award for songwriter of the year at the 2001 Junos, for her writing on "I'm Like a Bird," "Turn off the Lights," and "...On the Radio (Remember the Days)." She took home awards for best producer, best new solo artist and best single, as well that night. The 10-time Juno winner hosted the awards in 2024, performing a medley of her songs including her No. 1 hits "Promiscuous," "Give It to Me" and "Say It Right."
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