― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 13 November 2004 10:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― jones (actual), Saturday, 13 November 2004 18:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 15 November 2004 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 10:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― 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 (eighteen years ago) link
― Negativa, True Believer (You know you love it when I'm dressed in drag) (Barima), Thursday, 2 June 2005 09:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― stelfox, Thursday, 2 June 2005 09:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 2 June 2005 09:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 2 June 2005 09:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Negativa, True Believer (You know you love it when I'm dressed in drag) (Barima), Thursday, 2 June 2005 09:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 2 June 2005 09:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Negativa, True Believer (You know you love it when I'm dressed in drag) (Barima), Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― ppp, Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:26 (eighteen 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 (eighteen years ago) link
― Negativa, True Believer (You know you love it when I'm dressed in drag) (Barima), Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― stelfox, Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― ppp, Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― stelfox, Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― ppp, Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 2 June 2005 11:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― ppp, Thursday, 2 June 2005 11:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― deej., Thursday, 2 June 2005 12:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 3 June 2005 13:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― BARMS, Friday, 3 June 2005 13:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― ppp, Friday, 3 June 2005 13:21 (eighteen 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 (eighteen years ago) link
I kind of need better dictaphone skills, though.
― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 3 June 2005 13:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 3 June 2005 13:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― stelf)xxx, Friday, 3 June 2005 13:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 3 June 2005 13:47 (eighteen 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 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 3 June 2005 14:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― ppp, Friday, 3 June 2005 14:23 (eighteen years ago) link
she just posted a new mixtape: https://soundcloud.com/teedramoses/sets/clairvoyant-the-mixtape
― How to Destroy How to Dress Well (lou), Friday, 18 December 2015 07:49 (eight years ago) link
Waaaaait. How did I miss that she put out a new album?!
― Some Pizza Grudge From Twenty Years Ago (Old Lunch), Friday, 18 December 2015 13:48 (eight years ago) link
Waaaaait. How did I forget that I missed that she put out a new album?!
And how do I always forget how amazing Complex Simplicity is?
― My Whole Existence Is Flan (Old Lunch), Thursday, 7 April 2016 17:40 (eight years ago) link
15th anniversary edition of Complex Simplicity is out, with some added tracks. It’s on Spotify as well, from where the original album has been absent for a long time, at least where I live.https://ratedrnb.com/2019/09/teedra-moses-releases-15th-anniversary-edition-of-complex-simplicity/
She’s doing a tour in the US right now and will also be doing a couple of shows in the UK in February.
― breastcrawl, Sunday, 29 September 2019 10:03 (four 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 (two 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