Teedra Moses

Some days "Complex Simplicity" is my favourite song EVER.

U mad titchy.

dude.

that song isnt even on the level of mona lisa. (eg wanna please u). the reasons i liked teedra is cos she reminded me of all the 90s female R&B i liked. but apart from be your girl, its all signifiers (warmth, no euro-ish synths, rhode-ish keyboards, more of a 'soul' rather than pop voice, etc etc) and no songs.

*rhodes

sounds like shed be good live tho -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TwP7ShdCaE
(i like 'youll never find' anyway)

Titchy just be quiet you're ridiculously wrong on this point, "Complex Simplicity" is one of the finest pieces of songwriting and one of the finest performances I can think of. Genuinely moving.

she's really great live. tim otm, nothing to say except "u mad"

ha.

Everybody worried 'bout the negative
Lookin' at the worst of things
I'm just try'na celebrate my life
Mama said be young when you can be young
Life only gets rougher
I'm just try'na keep my youthful eye
I won't be held down
With all the things that happened in the past
Daddy he wasn't there
Mama she's goin' out
I gotta be grown...
I need you to hold me down!

tim, you heard her tracks from this year right? her mixtape was nice bit the two really crucial tracks were "so kool" and "put it in the wind" - plus "to hell with it" and "everybody rock" which leaked later in the year.

I've listened to them on youtube but the only one I actually have is "So Kool" (which is brilliant). It's hard to place teedra tracks quality wise on one or two listens but they all sounded pretty great.

there's some inevitably good bits on royal patience (the new mixtape) but altogether it's maybe the first time i've felt i was supporting a sentimental pet cause (though still a deserving one) rather than honouring the righteous fire of a colossal artistic injustice etc.

like i'm not sure if it's just some sort of general frustration or if i'm onto something but for instance 'g-tight', the 2002 poli paul offcut on here, seems to stick out by a fair margin in terms of its all-in-one elegantly assured ladygangsta, even though all its elements are notionally present in the other tracks.

hmm that's not the one that stood out to me - so far i'm about "oh love", "kisses never taste so sweet" and "international playboi" - but it's definitely...not the kind of thing with which i'd feel able to convince anyone not already on board. but then, the same was true for the last mixtape apart from the still-towering "so kool" and "put it in the wind". have to wonder where teedra is going these days though.

yeah obviously i think i'm just latching onto the closest thing to complex simplicity with its fully-formed implicit context. i do like all those other songs but like you say i've rather lost the thread of how they're supposed to hang together now.

i assume she's not signed atm? i really want another album from her - i think she'd think more about how the songs should hang together in that situation, rather than dumping a zip of badly-tagged songs at wildly varying bitrates on the world.

omg i know right? first thing i wanted to do was post here about banishing a bitch for bad mp3/m4a grabbag tagging but then i thought about how she's prolly just sat at home in front of an old imac listening to kings of leon and i thought better of it. plus i'm sure she knew i secretly enjoy correcting that shit anyway.

no, still not signed as far as i know. probably end up on hyperdub at this rate.

kinda weird how she never even did any more outside writing after 'dip it low', you'd think that wouldve kept her name in the industry at least and been a nice little earner to boot.

a teedra and cooly g supergroup.

they could call it 'simple complexity'.

you know that would actually be really great. funky remixes have been keeping teedra's name alive for a while now anyway.

i think she's done the ~focusing on being a mother~ thing?

as much as badu likes to call herself an analogue girl in a digital world, i get the distinct impression that it's teedra who's constantly asking her desktop "what does this do?", i suspect she may not even know what a bitrate is.

gotta love it really tbh. i know i'm risking death 4 this btw but does anyone else actually kinda see the cosmic rightness of teedra liking kol? it has improved my tolerance for 'sex on fire' immeasurably if nothing else.

did you see the cosmic rightness of timbo liking coldplay?

have to say, teedra's KOL repping sits easier than solange's ongoing adventures with GAPDY, which made me unfollow her a while ago

R&B artists in liking mainstream rock bands shocka!

i liked it when kanye said he liked fiona apple!

maxwell said he liked grizzly bear. i think jay-z did too, but i dont really believe him.

gotta love it really tbh. i know i'm risking death 4 this btw but does anyone else actually kinda see the cosmic rightness of teedra liking kol? it has improved my tolerance for 'sex on fire' immeasurably if nothing else.

Yeah this makes a lot of sense to me. I think people hate the big KOL singles out of a sense that they're something that should be hated, that they allow the public to indulge in retrograde taste etc but really I can so imagine Teedra vibing on the way their tunes hang together.

an interview! album due...can it be...this august??

http://www.soulculture.co.uk/features/interviews/teedra-moses-interview-back-to-where-i-started/

ScratchaDVA

RT @TinieTempah: Teedra Moses- Backstroke
about 21 hours ago via Echofon

slyly pervasive album u know?

heard geeneus play 'no more tears' in the middle of an otherwise very obvious r&b set on his show once as well.

i'm so glad i got to see her live last year.

everyone <3s teedra.

oh and screama using "complex simpliciteee!" for a signature remains the cosmic sign that can never be ignored, don't care if it's a coinkidink or not.

gonna listen to this now actually. hey does surm know teedra?

i shall ask, next time i'm on the gay thread

three tracks back into this album and i'm stanning so hard for her right now i probably qualify for asking him myself tbh

i fucking love how she emerges just in time for valentine's day every year. it's so right. anyway she's been sending out this link to a new song - 110kbps, and fans of her inimitable tagging style won't be disappointed - but it's really, really nice http://rapidshare.com/files/446435066/I_Adore_U.mp3

Teedra Moses Unplugged
Friday, March 11, 2011
The Park on 14th (3rd floor)
920 14th Street
Washington, DC

Anybody seen her unplugged?

And I wonder if anything has changed with her label situation since that interview linked to above? Does not appear to be the case.

"r u 4 real" was released as an official single on itunes the other week - on the black moses music label, which i'm guessing is her own?

I might be doing a quick e-mail interview with her to run the day of her show in Washington DC. Trying to set that up. Can't make the gig this time.

the b-more club mix of BYG is even better than the original and thats the one i listen to most.

Also a BIG fan of that mix.

don't suppose anyone feels like uploading that?

its the best thing shes done. (or had done to her)

feel vindicated in owning the sexx on fire album all along haha
love u teedra

a quick e-mail interview with her:

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2011/03/11/tonight-rb-singer-teedra-moses-unplugged-at-the-park-at-14th/

TM: I have an album scheduled for August.

WCP: How is this version different than the one planned for a few years ago?

TM: I gave away a few of the songs scheduled to be on The Young Lioness... I held on to the ones that meant a great deal to me. I've settled into the sound of The Lioness and it is strong but subtle... its champagne soul. It feels good, it's grown up and it's in the pocket.

WCP: Do you have any interest in writing songs for others anymore?

TM: I like writing songs... period. If I write a song that someone wants to sing cool. I would love for them to have it. otherwise, I'm just writing songs. They're not particularly for anyone.

WCP: What artists are you listening to?

TM: I like Adele. I like J. Monet. I've been listening to Ahmad Jamal and Coltrane more recently. Sade...

WCP: Do you still listen to gospel? Sing in church when you're home?

TM: I listen to gospel when I go to church and sometimes on Pandora. I'm not up to date on whats really going on in gospel like I should be, though. I don't sing in church. I want to start singing at my church here in Miami... but I'm never home for choir practice.

Love Teedra for feeling guilty about being "not up to date on whats really going on in gospel like I should be".

I <3 Teedra

<3 teedra

i wish "r u 4 real" was a bit more in tune :/

No mention of Kings of Leon this time is a good thing. I wasn't able to make the DC gig this time. I haven't seen any writeups of it online.

Oops with the "this time"

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