Teedra Moses

omg i just noticed the "you better tell her" / "all n my grill" connection

five years too late but whatever

haha look what else i found

http://i.imgur.com/Fc45z.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PhKMuZZ50Q

aha

the cdq must be out there

what was the awesome solo single she had out over the summer that i heard on the radio exactly once?

"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

seems just as likely to have been something off the mixtape though, idk

http://www.datpiff.com/Teedra-Moses-Luxurious-Undergrind-mixtape.247878.html

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

ah this was what i heard on the radio over the summer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itv1p7Rl36Y&feature=related

lex if you just want an mp3 then converting the youtube vid gives fairly decent quality

http://hulkshare.com/qwt7kackglfd

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.

also haha how did she get into forbes...?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tamarawarren/2011/05/25/five-questions-for-teedra-moses/

video for "another luvr". SUCH A BAD BITCH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me9yZJ72DcQ

why can't wale fuck off though

i need those sunglasses

teedra moses is so beautiful it's almost o_O

otm

it's the way she carries herself too. i want to be teedra moses when i grow up

This track is amazing, why have I not been paying more attention to this woman?

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

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

Both of these tracks are news to me, but I'm always learning things from ILM.

Both amazing obv.

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

probably already said all of that sometime upthread but hey, ilm baby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCCEZU6u15A

maybe some of you didnt hear this either so

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkon4G5i_vA

unmistakeable fingerprint

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, 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

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

I didn't know about Ne-Yo either!

More reasons to love Complex Simplicity.

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

probably already said all of that sometime upthread but hey, ilm baby

― r|t|c, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 13:51 (8 hours ago) Bookmark

and now ne-yo is making singles "featuring calvin harris" :(

Is that Teairra Marí album any good? Really liking that song.

yes, i love it. ice cold and hard-ass

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

it's katy b.

yah but stick 'caution' on tho

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.

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

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.

I've heard "Lights On" on US radio.

oh wow so she has

ULTIMATE CULT HEROES
5. TEEDRA MOSES
Chosen by: Katy B
When 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!

they're singing does seems similar though in that they both have a remarkable clarity in their voices

^ 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

Yeah but Katy B is a boring, middle of the road Noxzema girl pop singer, while Teedra Moses is, you know, interesting and talented

do i have to break out snoop.gif for the second time today?

yeah guess she can't push the envelope to its very bleeding edge like miguel does every single time huh

i was just about to type almost exactly that sentence except with grimes, though miguel works too

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.

miguel is amazing tho. please leave the playing yourselves to evan.