 " Maneater " was one of the first songs Furtado and Timbaland worked on in the Hit Factory Criteria recording studios in Miami , Florida . She has described the song as an analogy of how she incorporated the " creative energy " of Timbaland and his production crew into Loose . When making the album , Furtado and Timbaland were influenced by the work of musicians from the 1980s such as Talking Heads , Blondie , Madonna , The Police and Eurythmics . " Eurythmics had this spooky , keyboard @-@ driven pop sound " , Furtado said . Final production of the track was delayed after a speaker caught fire in the studio control room . 
