Trynna Finda Way

Infobox Single
Name = Trynna Finda Way


Cover size =
Caption = Picture CD
Artist = Nelly Furtado
from Album = Whoa, Nelly!
A-side =
B-side =
Released = Autumn 2002
Format =
Recorded =
Genre = Trip hop, hip hop
Length = 4:43
Label = DreamWorks
Writer = Nelly Furtado
Producer = Gerald Eaton, Brian West
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Chart position =
Last single = "Hey, Man!"
(2002)
This single = "Trynna Finda Way"
(2002)
Next single = "Ching Ching"
(2002)
Misc =

"Trynna Finda Way" is a song by R&B/soul/hip hop Nelly Furtado, and was the sixth and final single from her 2000 debut album, "Whoa, Nelly!". The track was released to radio in Mexico in late 2002 (see 2002 in music).

Furtado has described the song as a stream-of-consciousness piece heavily inspired by Beat poets such as Jack Kerouac (particularly his novel "On the Road") and Allen Ginsberg, as well as the "street science and street energy and rawness" present in Jim Carroll's novel "The Basketball Diaries". The opening line of the song, "I left my heart in San Francisco", is a reference to Ginsberg. She originally wrote part of the first verse of "Trynna Finda Way" for a song called "Post No Bills". [ [http://www.mtv.com/bands/archive/n/nellyf01/index.jhtml "Nelly Furtado: This Bird Has Flown"] . MTV News. January 2001. Retrieved March 29 2007.] [ [http://web.archive.org/web/20050404101936/shitontheradio.com/whoanelly.htm "Whoa, Nelly! - Album & Song Info"] . shitontheradio.com. Retrieved March 29 2007 from the Internet Archive.]

The song includes influences of hip hop music because of Furtado's self-described "obsession" with urban and hip-hop music when she was a teenager. It features a berimbau, a traditional Brazilian instrument, because Furtado connected with Brazilian music and its "rich instrumentation". [ [http://www.burninthespotlight.com/index.php/2000/horsing-around-with-nelly-furtado/ "Horsing Around With Nelly Furtado"] . Checkout Entertainment, via burninthespotlight.com. December 15 2000. Retrieved March 29 2007.]

"Trynna Finda Way" was featured on the soundtrack of the 2001 film "The Princess Diaries", and it was used in the 2005 television film "School of Life".

Track listing

Mexico Single

;CD Promo

#"Trynna Finda Way"

Other versions

* "Trynna Finda Way" (New Album Version) (3:32)

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