Teedra Moses

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"Teedra's voice has this unbelievable clarity to it."

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 (twenty-one years ago)

Something else which really stands out about the album is how sparse it sounds at first listen - really, it's just that stark, clear voice and a beat, and maybe one sample, pushed forward in the mix. But there are so many interesting things going on in the background! And this combines with your point about Teedra's lyrics - because the voice is so upfront (and because she avoids melisma, and makes a point of enunciating every word), the listener is forced to engage with exactly what she's saying.

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 (twenty-one years ago)

"And this combines with your point about Teedra's lyrics - because the voice is so upfront (and because she avoids melisma, and makes a point of enunciating every word), the listener is forced to engage with exactly what she's saying."

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 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha the Teedra Moses/Stina Nordenstam connection! (That's not even a joke, they both share a very... crystalline quality.)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

Just listening to this now. Only up to track 4 so far. 'Backstroke' stands out a mile. What a wonderful track, sonically and emotionally.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

same here alba. just caught on yesterday based on the albums poll. what an impressive album. usually the combined weight of 4 minute tracks wears my ears down, but not here...

― john'n'chicago, Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm really glad you both like this!

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I love it. A fine album.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

i love the "daddy, i'm too cute to fight, you better get that bitch told tonight" line.

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 (twenty-one years ago)

Will do - thanks. (It's Rahsaan, not Rashaan, I've discovered)

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 20 January 2005 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

wow. i'm an idiot. i need to correct the thread i started about the guy.

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 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

I think "Be Your Girl" has the same piano sample as "One on One" by Nas

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 (twenty-one years ago)

Ahmad Jamal's The Awakening, apparently.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 26 February 2005 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

I might be interviewing Teedra tomorrow!

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 2 June 2005 09:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Sweet!

― Negativa, True Believer (You know you love it when I'm dressed in drag) (Barima), Thursday, 2 June 2005 09:38 (twenty-one years ago)

who for? i'd be interested to read it.

― stelfox, Thursday, 2 June 2005 09:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Plan B

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 2 June 2005 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't done an interview in about a YEAR. I am actually a little nervous. About two weeks ago I had a daydream about interviewing Teedra, during which I came up with lots of interesting and awesome questions. Needless to say I can remember none of them now.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 2 June 2005 09:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Take her shopping! That could help.

― Negativa, True Believer (You know you love it when I'm dressed in drag) (Barima), Thursday, 2 June 2005 09:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I get vv limited time with her, I am not sure if this makes it worse or better (ans: worse)

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 2 June 2005 09:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Ask her for a new album post haste. Tell her she and Kiley should team up and lay the smackdown on Whitney and Mariah. Ask her if she danced in the 'Dip It Low' vid and tell her she has fabulous taste in outfits.

― Negativa, True Believer (You know you love it when I'm dressed in drag) (Barima), Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i love the be your girl single, but as for the rest of the album, it seemed pretty below-par. nice voice, just not that great songs. she sings what seems like the same melody song after song.

― ppp, Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:26 (twenty-one years ago)

they're really slow burners. the title track is one of my favourite songs ever, I think.

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 (twenty-one years ago)

It does. I used iTunes to merge the tracklistings, though I still don't think I've completed either edition.

― Negativa, True Believer (You know you love it when I'm dressed in drag) (Barima), Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:37 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't understand why outta my head isn't a massive favourite here. it's a great track

― stelfox, Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:37 (twenty-one years ago)

well, slow burners maybe, or maybe theyre just not that great, actually. they dont seem particularly well written, theyre just listenable i find cos she has a nice voice. im selling my cd on ebay. its like a lot of R&B albums, one or two great songs, the rest is filler. i was hoping for better from her.

― ppp, Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

the Outta My Head/Complex Simplicity/For A Lifetime triptych is the peak of the album for me, a really incredible triple emotional blow.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i'd absolutely agree there.
something about last day really gets to me, too, though.

― stelfox, Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I love the way it unwinds so...gracefully. there's so much relief there, like she's realised what the key to life is and can relax now.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:52 (twenty-one years ago)

i cant believe you guys are rhapsodising over teedra and yet noone on ILM is talking about the new mariah album. now THAT album is tremendous.

― ppp, Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I would really like to hear the nouvelle Mariah, I love the single and the title.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 2 June 2005 11:05 (twenty-one years ago)

seriously, its SO brilliant. the best R&B album of the year in my opinion. shes really outdone herself. the bridge on the single its like that is sublime. you have to hear we belong together and circles.

― ppp, Thursday, 2 June 2005 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the new Mariah is great but so is teedra! Hardly *Just* about the voice for me. "Backstroke" is my favorite track.

― deej., Thursday, 2 June 2005 12:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Teedra is lovely, and very very small.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 3 June 2005 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh shit, did you ask her if she'll marry me?

― BARMS, Friday, 3 June 2005 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

she is very pretty. she looks lovely.

― ppp, Friday, 3 June 2005 13:21 (twenty-one years ago)

PPP, listen to the section from "You Better Tell Her" through to "Last Day" again. I find the charge of weak songs quite surprising, esp. as if anything I'd probably consider "Be Your Girl" to be one of the weaker tracks on that score (relatively - this was my equal fave album from last year so all such distinctions are pretty pedantic).

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 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't I'm afraid Barima. We talked about the impossibility of finding decent jewellery in Camden (she was confused about this before I informed her that Camden is the hellhole of London), the last fight she got in, and she gave me a sneak preview of this song she's writing called 'The Whole World Is A Ghetto'. She's really sweet and very thoughtful, and she wore these amazing red-tinted shades throughout.

I kind of need better dictaphone skills, though.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 3 June 2005 13:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I got 25mins in the end which was excellent!

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 3 June 2005 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)

i'll look fwd to reading this and, yeah, the mariah album is fabulous, too.

― stelf)xxx, Friday, 3 June 2005 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i like it less than teedra, tho.

― stelf)xxx, Friday, 3 June 2005 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

unbelievably given her lyrics she said she "doesn't intend to be poetical", and is amazed/flattered that people keep telling her that she is...

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 3 June 2005 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

hey lex, where can i read the interview?

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 (twenty-one years ago)

you will probably have to wait a couple of months to read the interview in the next Plan B, but I will bump this thread when it appears. I haven't even started transcribing yet.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 3 June 2005 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

look forward to reading it... will keep a look out.

― ppp, Friday, 3 June 2005 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

New issue of Plan B out today, my Teedra piece is in it. It's very abridged though that is mostly my fault for going so much over the word limit in the first place.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 1 August 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

"Complex Simplicity" continues to impress me. I've been fawning over "No More Tears" lately and just realized it samples Outkast's "SpottieOttieDopaliscious". I've heard this horn line quite a bit lately, does anyone know it's origin or is it an Outkast original?

― Gregory T (tubesocks), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

"Cut Buddy"!

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 (twenty years ago)

ten months pass...

New Teedra album in the 07! A Young Lioness!

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 (nineteen years ago)

Great news!

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Sunday, 27 August 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

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"Single"

Producer: PJ MORTON
Writer: T. MOSES
Writer: P. MORTON

Love her voice and this is good, but alas I don't think it will necessarily get more exposure and bring her to a larger audience or a younger one

― curmudgeon, Sunday, 26 April 2026 15:48 (one month ago)

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