― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 10:30 (nineteen years ago) link
Yeah this is spot on. It combines with her unusually vivid and visual lyrics to make her songs seem very filmic; and then Paul Poli's production is so frequently cinematic. My favourite line may still be the one that Matt quotes in his article from "Backstroke": "picture me in one of those two-seater things, top down so thoughts of you are in the breeze, and the wind, and the wind, and the wind is in my hair..."
But I also love the opening lines in "For A Lifetime": "you give and you give, but you never seem to get back in return/what you give, till your heart's a thirsty third-degree burns."
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 10:56 (nineteen years ago) link
All of this is in contrast to the sophisticated, slightly hazy, evening-dress-and-glass-of-wine image which Teedra projects. The effect is rather like Sade brought suddenly into really sharp focus.
― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 11:09 (nineteen years ago) link
OTM. I knew you would like this album Alex. It engages the same pleasure receptors in my brains as are engaged by all the stuff we both like.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 12:23 (nineteen years ago) link
It's why I bought it actually, the things you said you liked about it are the same things that are present in everything we both like.
― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 12:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― john'n'chicago, Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:11 (nineteen years ago) link
also, may i suggest rashaan patterson's After Hours, specifically "So Hot", which i've said elsewhere is the best thing i've heard so far this year.
― john'n'chicago, Thursday, 20 January 2005 22:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 20 January 2005 22:46 (nineteen years ago) link
also, i couldn't get teedra out of my head last night, esp. the title track.
― john'n'chiago, Friday, 21 January 2005 15:57 (nineteen years ago) link
saw the video on tv today and, yeah, it does. anyone know just where the sample's from though?
― jermaine, Saturday, 26 February 2005 13:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 26 February 2005 14:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 2 June 2005 09:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Negativa, True Believer (You know you love it when I'm dressed in drag) (Barima), Thursday, 2 June 2005 09:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― stelfox, Thursday, 2 June 2005 09:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 2 June 2005 09:46 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Negativa, True Believer (You know you love it when I'm dressed in drag) (Barima), Thursday, 2 June 2005 09:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 2 June 2005 09:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Negativa, True Believer (You know you love it when I'm dressed in drag) (Barima), Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― ppp, Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:26 (nineteen years ago) link
the cover of the UK release of the album is diffeent to the import I bought, I worry that this means BONUS TRACKS.
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Negativa, True Believer (You know you love it when I'm dressed in drag) (Barima), Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― stelfox, Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― ppp, Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― stelfox, Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― ppp, Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 2 June 2005 11:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― ppp, Thursday, 2 June 2005 11:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― deej., Thursday, 2 June 2005 12:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 3 June 2005 13:16 (nineteen years ago) link
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― ppp, Friday, 3 June 2005 13:21 (nineteen years ago) link
Lex is OTM about the title track (occupies the same place in my heart), but yeah, I adore "Outta My Head" as well, and I like the way that on that portion of the album every song sounds like a massive switch-up after the previous one.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 3 June 2005 13:30 (nineteen years ago) link
I kind of need better dictaphone skills, though.
― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 3 June 2005 13:33 (nineteen years ago) link
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― stelf)xxx, Friday, 3 June 2005 13:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 3 June 2005 13:47 (nineteen years ago) link
stelfox, there is not one bad song on mariahs album. id say its 90% perfect. this album is just magnificent. circles is just WOW. those backing vocals. OMg.
― ppp, Friday, 3 June 2005 13:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 3 June 2005 14:09 (nineteen years ago) link
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― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 1 August 2005 12:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Gregory T (tubesocks), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 14:27 (eighteen years ago) link
This shit is great, it reminds me of "Oops Oh My" (although not quite as good as that). Is it from a new album or what?
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 24 October 2005 03:09 (eighteen years ago) link
Teedra has "Take My Love Away" playing on her myspace page, it sounds ace, very sad and gentle and reflective, gorgeously produced as per.
Teedra's voice is just...I can't think of another singer whose voice cuts into me as much as hers.
Nice to find out that her favourite song is Starpoint's "Object Of My Desire"! And that she started out writing songs over the top of Prince grooves, which makes a lot of sense obv.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 27 August 2006 13:07 (seventeen years ago) link
honestly found it hard to get enthusiastic about most of her post-complex simplicity material but "make me" appeared in my release radar this morning and sounds great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKtUAiQwO_g
― monotony, Friday, 7 May 2021 00:05 (three years ago) link
Is it possible for one of the OG teedra fans to please re-up her "young hustla vol 1-3" series? I've been looking online forever, all the links are decayed. I'd appreciate it.
― Ibadan, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 02:51 (one year ago) link