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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)

"backstroke" remains my favorite

― deej.. (deej..), Sunday, 27 August 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

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

(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)

― rtccc (mwah), Sunday, 27 August 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

oh i do remember hearing back when young lioness wz scheduled for this summer that the first single was gonna feature trey songz, and the news of it naffed me off a little, cos trey songz is a bit of a knob.

― rtccc (mwah), Sunday, 27 August 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.teedramoses.net/filemgmt/viewcat.php?cid=13

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.)

― rtccc (mwah), Sunday, 27 August 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

ten months pass...

New song "Love's Gonna Be" here.

A bit disappointing, actually.

― groovemaaan, Saturday, 30 June 2007 23:00 (eighteen years ago)

sample must have cost a fortune

― deej, Saturday, 30 June 2007 23:09 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

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.

― lex pretend, Monday, 24 November 2008 12:27 (seventeen years ago)

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

― lex pretend, Monday, 24 November 2008 12:28 (seventeen years ago)

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

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 11:40 (seventeen years ago)

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

― Tim F, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 11:58 (seventeen years ago)

it's on the fader!

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 11:58 (seventeen years ago)

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 :( :( :(

― Mind Taker, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 12:08 (seventeen years ago)

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

― Tim F, Thursday, 27 November 2008 10:01 (seventeen years ago)

three months pass...

OMG <3 <3 <3 <3

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

― lex pretend, Monday, 2 March 2009 22:20 (seventeen years ago)

i like it

― tuomasters at work (blueski), Monday, 2 March 2009 22:25 (seventeen years ago)

four weeks pass...

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

― curmudgeon, Monday, 30 March 2009 21:21 (seventeen years ago)

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.

― lou, Monday, 30 March 2009 21:31 (seventeen years ago)

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

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 03:09 (seventeen years ago)

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