Teedra Moses

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.

I kind of need better dictaphone skills, though.

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.

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?

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.

cool huh

(erm ok i wz actually trying to verify whether ne-yo is about to publicly come out in some magazine next month??! this in the same week he wz caught photo'd doing, uhhh... not v gay activities with a backing dancer. gotta be a hoax rite)

here's a page of some more new odds n sods. i've linked to this site b4, the audio section is a goldmine of teedra rejectamenta! you can find the original trina song wot had teedra on it before kelly rowland, for example, or this sort of ok rmx of 'you'll never find' with the obv sample, the provenance of which still baffles me because i only learnt of it when i saw thee 12 itself in poxy electrotwat music record shop phonica, of all places. (it were never in regular rnb shops.)

New song "Love's Gonna Be" here.

A bit disappointing, actually.

sample must have cost a fortune

so i went back and forth for a bit on 'so kool', wondering if this was really what i wanted from teedra, then i realised i couldn't actually stop listening to it. she sounds more subdued than in the past but it fits the song perfectly. it's so lush and pastoral - very 'rock the boat' - and the chorus is just beautiful, "don't you call me today" totally gets me.

let's hope this means a new album is actually imminent this time!!

ok where is the teedra crew of 4 years ago >:(

I'm waiting to find "So Kool" before I post. Also I'm scared of getting excited and jinxing the whole thing.

it's on the fader!

there was a lovely lil track called Blow Me Out that she briefly put up on her myspace some time ago.

i still haven't heard "Complex Simplicity" in its entirety! i even bought it few years ago but i kinda lost the habit of playing audio cds and i always keep forgetting to put it on :( :( :(

Okay so I've heard "So Kool" now and yeah it is rather OMG AMAZING.

OMG <3 <3 <3 <3

child the natural fact is...i can't pay my taxes...

i like it

Short notice

Just got an e-mail today from the Washington DC promoter regarding Teedra this week in DC (it's a smaller room than for her last local appearance):

Thursday, April 2nd
@
LIV
2001 11th Street, NW
(Near 11th & U Streets)

Doors @ 9PM

Sweet! Thanks for the heads up. Saw her play a short but sweet set at the Black Cat almost 2 years ago. Hope she plays some new stuff this time. Lionhearted is easily among my favorites of the year so far.

I saw her at the Cat but alas won't be able to make it this time.

I guess I could talk about new Teedra joints on the Rolling R&B thread, but if Teedra visited me in my dreams tonight and I had to admit I'd been intermingling her new material with just any R&B i'd be really ashamed.

Anyway, LOVE this slowburning stalker of a kiss-off jam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_HPsA0WzRs

I also didn't even know she'd released a new mixtape this year. When oh when will Young Lioness drop? It's gettin' so the "Young" is becoming tenuous.

brainwasher and i both mentioned the mixtape on rolling r&b in like january you funky-addled clod!!

'to hell with it' is a good song (most likely better on paper than 'everybody rock') but part of me is hesitant to greenlight her boldest yet recorded foray into darkest jazmine sullivania - i've always loved her easy, big sisterly relationship with modernity you see. also she loves rolling r&b and is honoured every time she's mentioned there.

The problem with rolling threads is that I feel like I have to watch every embedded youtube and not participate otherwise - and then there's never time to do so.

This problem doesn't arise when you're on the Executive Board (e.g. funky house sceptics) but as a simple non-executive member it often feels easier just to skip the meetings so no-one realises you've been shirking your duties.

LOL "Sullivania". I like her soulful stuff as well but I do occasionally get the impression sometimes with that kinda mixtape cut that she kinda just sleepwalked through the songwriting process (singing always spot on obv) because she finds that kind of thing so easy now. On one level this is compelling because it's like Essence Of Teedra, but on another level it ends up standing in the shadow of her first album (having a hard-to-top debut not necessarily being a "problem" of course).

While I'd be concerned if she decided just abandon that and do all electrosheen all the time ("Everybody Rock", "So Kool" etc.) I get the sense that she thinks through her woodland forays a little bit more than her open house tours.

teedramoses im riding to kings of leon's last album... this is soul music... the lead singer's voice is a-may-zin. i nevr get tired of this cd.

i was gonna post that earlier :(

Um...I somehow never heard this until very recently? And it might be a more perfect rainy-day-album than Mariah's latest one. Definitely amazing.

I found a Teedra Moses sleeveless tee behind my computer 5 minutes ago.

posted from the SR thread - i thought it would be better to post it here rather than derail that one even more:

"Titchy saying that Teedra's only good song is "Be Your Girl" is one of the wrongest things you've said!! It's not even top 5 on her album!"

are you serious? lol. i suppose ill have to dig it out again just to check but i dont remember anything better on there. though the b-more club mix of BYG is even better than the original and thats the one i listen to most.

1. Complex Simplicity
2. Back Stroke
3. For A Lifetime
4. The Last Day
5. Outta My Head

1. complex simplicity
2. for a lifetime
3. you'll never find (a better woman)
4. backstroke
5. outta my head
6. caution

also HYPE:

@teedramoses im gonna release the Royal Patience EP on Valentines Day 2010 for free download... stay tuned :-) luv ya muah!
about 18 hours ago from mobile web

yeah im not seeing how any of those are better. theyre all very samey, not really that well defined as songs, and not really that special enough groove-wise or melodically to compensate. teedras got a lovely voice and could be a great singer but be your girl is her only great song. the rest is pretty ho-hum filler. most of that first album still sounds like b-list 90s R&B. the type of thing id have expected from tara thomas, kim swain or someone, though both of those artists' better known songs are still better than the top 5 listed above.

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

U mad titchy.