"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?
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 19:17 (6 months ago) Bookmark
― r|t|c, Thursday, 6 October 2011 22:45 (twelve years ago) link
seems just as likely to have been something off the mixtape though, idk
http://www.datpiff.com/Teedra-Moses-Luxurious-Undergrind-mixtape.247878.html
― r|t|c, Thursday, 6 October 2011 22:51 (twelve years ago) link
i found something purporting to be the trina/teedra...in .ram format which, what even is that. it won't play on my laptop but if anyone wants to have a go at converting it, http://www.sendspace.com/file/nvy22u
― lex pretend, Friday, 7 October 2011 07:14 (twelve years ago) link
ah this was what i heard on the radio over the summer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itv1p7Rl36Y&feature=related
― alan2dyk (some dude), Friday, 7 October 2011 07:19 (twelve years ago) link
lex if you just want an mp3 then converting the youtube vid gives fairly decent quality
http://hulkshare.com/qwt7kackglfd
― r|t|c, Friday, 7 October 2011 07:56 (twelve years ago) link
the mixtape fell by the wayside for me somewhat tbh but prompted by ships it's sounding good now. teedz knows the dealio though:
Perfect? I don’t even know what that is, but I just really want it to stand out to me. That’s the hardest part, getting me on board like everything is good. "I almost didn’t put out Luxurious underGrind because I was like, ‘Ughhh, this is just not good enough,’ but I had to step away from it and go back and listen to it and say ‘No, no, this is good, let’s go!’ So that’s kind of how I have to do it sometimes, but I’m not trying to be perfect. I don’t think there is such a thing.
― r|t|c, Friday, 7 October 2011 08:01 (twelve years ago) link
also haha how did she get into forbes...?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/tamarawarren/2011/05/25/five-questions-for-teedra-moses/
― r|t|c, Friday, 7 October 2011 08:02 (twelve years ago) link
video for "another luvr". SUCH A BAD BITCH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me9yZJ72DcQ
― if u leave imma crank wu-tang in my black matte truck (lex pretend), Friday, 17 February 2012 12:28 (twelve years ago) link
why can't wale fuck off though
i need those sunglasses
teedra moses is so beautiful it's almost o_O
― horseshoe, Friday, 17 February 2012 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
otm
it's the way she carries herself too. i want to be teedra moses when i grow up
― if u leave imma crank wu-tang in my black matte truck (lex pretend), Friday, 17 February 2012 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
This track is amazing, why have I not been paying more attention to this woman?
― boxedjoy, Friday, 17 February 2012 22:53 (twelve years ago) link
Um. So the Euro edition of Complex Simplicity had a Truth Hurts/Raphael Saadiq featuring remix of Be Your Girl that samples Juicy Fruit?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktVPwHZ2DnA
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 01:26 (eleven years ago) link
Was this something we all knew about except me?
yup, always loved that - feels like a quiet, understated triumph in contrast to the original's pleading neediness. the UK album also had this excellent song on it, if anyone's not heard it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbfYmwgVb8g
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 06:04 (eleven years ago) link
Both of these tracks are news to me, but I'm always learning things from ILM.
― MikoMcha, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 11:50 (eleven years ago) link
Both amazing obv.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 11:53 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.discogs.com/Teedra-Moses-Youll-Never-Find-A-Better-Woman/release/1564893
along the lines of 'still your girl' there was also this exactly what you'd expect but still dece mix of 'you'll never find' interpolating 'everybody loves the sunshine'
kinda dressed itself as a bootleg but as tvt themselves put it out on the low i would suspect it's canon
this link to a mix it's in still works:
http://www.mixoftheweek.com/mixes/motw248.html
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 12:50 (eleven years ago) link
probably already said all of that sometime upthread but hey, ilm baby
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 12:51 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCCEZU6u15A
maybe some of you didnt hear this either so
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 12:52 (eleven years ago) link
just lookin at discogs i'd forgotten ne-yo had a hand in a lot of complex simplicity before he'd got big
makes excellent sense obv
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 12:54 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkon4G5i_vA
unmistakeable fingerprint
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 12:57 (eleven years ago) link
― r|t|c, Wednesday, April 4, 2012 8:54 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
did not know that! is he credited for anything besides 'vocal arrangement' per wiki? seems like such a lost opportunity that he hasn't gone back and worked with teedra more since then
― some dude, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 14:06 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.discogs.com/Teedra-Moses-Complex-Simplicity/release/3292414
not per discogs - do have the cd in a box somewhere but i doubt anything else is there to be found really
http://www.songwriteruniverse.com/ne-yo.htm
in this interview he says he met scott storch while working on it, and then came 'let me love you', then etc
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 14:21 (eleven years ago) link
I didn't know about Ne-Yo either!
More reasons to love Complex Simplicity.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 21:04 (eleven years ago) link
something i didnt know wot i only learned today: according to wiki ne-yo "...helped with the musical arrangement on the Teedra Moses debut Complex Simplicity."
cool huh
― rtccc (mwah), Sunday, 27 August 2006 20:14 (5 years ago) Bookmark
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 13:51 (8 hours ago) Bookmark
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
and now ne-yo is making singles "featuring calvin harris" :(
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
Is that Teairra Marí album any good? Really liking that song.
― Evan R, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 21:25 (eleven years ago) link
yes, i love it. ice cold and hard-ass
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 21:29 (eleven years ago) link
brittle screwface
gulp
um guys i just tried putting complex simplicity on, yknow like we all do once a year
and uh my brain is all is this katy b? idk man, sounds a lot like katy b
this is shaking me to my core
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
it's katy b.
― TALiB KWELi SODMG (The Reverend), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 21:31 (eleven years ago) link
yah but stick 'caution' on tho
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks, Lex; checking it out right now.
And I think I've said this before, but I'm pretty sure Katy B is not a thing that exists in America.
― Evan R, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
haha well katy's been going on about what a genius teedra is since forever! so i have had these thoughts. it's more apparent in the songwriting, you know that deceptively casual way of phrasing something then dropping a really startlingly poetic image in the middle of it, than the singing
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
I'm pretty sure Katy B is not a thing that exists in America.
it took a while but lots of US journalists started talking about her last year.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 21:34 (eleven years ago) link
I've heard "Lights On" on US radio.
― TALiB KWELi SODMG (The Reverend), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
oh wow so she has
ULTIMATE CULT HEROES 5. TEEDRA MOSESChosen by: Katy BWhen I was about 15 my friend’s dad was always in touch with new soul records. He put his daughter onto Teedra Moses and we rinsed the life out of ‘Complex Simplicity’. She’s been out of the loop since her record label went bust, and has been writing for other artists and releasing mixtapes. But you know what? I want a new album, Teedra!
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 21:42 (eleven years ago) link
they're singing does seems similar though in that they both have a remarkable clarity in their voices
― prolego, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 21:42 (eleven years ago) link
^ yes. it's also true what lex said about the songwriting but you can also hear little moments where the capabilities of their voices converge and theyre just alike
seems very obviously an album katy has been karaokeing since forever
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 21:45 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah but Katy B is a boring, middle of the road Noxzema girl pop singer, while Teedra Moses is, you know, interesting and talented
― Evan R, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 21:46 (eleven years ago) link
do i have to break out snoop.gif for the second time today?
― TALiB KWELi SODMG (The Reverend), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
yeah guess she can't push the envelope to its very bleeding edge like miguel does every single time huh
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 21:49 (eleven years ago) link
i was just about to type almost exactly that sentence except with grimes, though miguel works too
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
hahaha, ok, I'll back down from the Katy B bashing. I shouldn't try to troll too hard about an artist I clearly don't understand (and probably wasn't meant to understand) anyway.
― Evan R, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
miguel is amazing tho. please leave the playing yourselves to evan.
― TALiB KWELi SODMG (The Reverend), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
girl u know i love miguel, doesnt change the fact that what evan said about him was snoopgif-worthy
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 21:57 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, I would hate to see my precious miguel/grimes get caught in the crossfire because of my own impudence... snoop.gif me, but let the music go free
― Evan R, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 21:59 (eleven years ago) link
That Teairra Marí album is really nice; definitely going to order one of the $0.24 used copies of it from Amazon
― Evan R, Thursday, 5 April 2012 05:27 (eleven years ago) link
all im listening is teedra is the last days, she's so important in my life
― moullet, Thursday, 19 April 2012 19:43 (eleven years ago) link