"Thank you, Canada, I love you for accepting me," Furtado said in Sunday's telecast, in which she took the winner's podium three times. "I love you!" Toronto-based rock band Billy Talent was the only other multiple winner of the weekend, taking trophies for group of the year and rock album of the year.
Front man Ben Kowalewicz said they wanted to share the award with their friends and co-nominees Alexisonfire. Backstage, he said they had a very simple plan for their Juno celebration: "Get drunk. Get very, very drunk.
" Kowalewicz also offered a special thanks to the band's hometown of Mississauga, Ont., crediting the community with supporting them through a decade-long climb to the top. But it was a disappointing night for critics' favourite k-os, a genre-mashing performer who had tied with Furtado and rockers Billy Talent for most nominations for his acclaimed disc "Atlantis: Hymns for Disco.
" K-os lost four trophies at a private ceremony Saturday and lost the fifth award, a best-single nomination for his infectious party song "Sunday Morning," to Furtado's "Promiscuous" on Sunday. He appeared early in the broadcast with a performance of his hit "Sunday Morning," changing the lyric to at one point declare: "This show is not me, this show is propaganda." Furtado set an off-kilter tone early in the show by arriving onstage suspended from cables high above Saskatoon's Credit Union Centre.
The Victoria beauty wore an all-black outfit adorned with feathers in a nod to her 2000 debut hit "I'm Like A Bird," and later poked more fun at herself by appearing in a black latex bodysuit and a matronly nightgown in pre-taped comedy bits. She ended the evening with five trophies including the two accolades she picked up at Saturday's private industry event. That ceremony crowned her artist of the year and her blockbuster disc "Loose" the best pop album.
Backstage, Furtado said she was shocked by her multiple wins, especially best album. "I've sat in the audience at the Junos and lost for best album twice and I always wondered, 'Oh, maybe one day I'll get that,' you know?" said Furtado, adding she was indebted to her producer Timbaland, the U.
S. beat guru also behind hits from Justin Timberlake and The Pussycat Dolls.
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