Teedra Moses

and don't tell me that jadakiss rap isn't hot on "you'll never find," he undercuts the song and then his own argument!

Everyone should get this album.

Ever go to "Independence Splash" every year March on the beach outside Accra, B.A.R.M.S.?

Yay Andy!

Tim, what do you think of the Lil Jon track? I like that he's continued working outside his popular template on the downlow. I don't know how i feel about the track though.

Yeah this is spot on. It combines with her unusually vivid and visual lyrics to make her songs seem very filmic; and then Paul Poli's production is so frequently cinematic. My favourite line may still be the one that Matt quotes in his article from "Backstroke": "picture me in one of those two-seater things, top down so thoughts of you are in the breeze, and the wind, and the wind, and the wind is in my hair..."

But I also love the opening lines in "For A Lifetime": "you give and you give, but you never seem to get back in return/what you give, till your heart's a thirsty third-degree burns."

All of this is in contrast to the sophisticated, slightly hazy, evening-dress-and-glass-of-wine image which Teedra projects. The effect is rather like Sade brought suddenly into really sharp focus.

OTM. I knew you would like this album Alex. It engages the same pleasure receptors in my brains as are engaged by all the stuff we both like.

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.

girl u know i love miguel, doesnt change the fact that what evan said about him was snoopgif-worthy

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

That Teairra Marí album is really nice; definitely going to order one of the $0.24 used copies of it from Amazon

all im listening is teedra is the last days, she's so important in my life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mUGnjdUgUw

that voice. she could sing me titchyschneider posts and i'd be in heaven

IRL lols.

hahaha

but could she sing you dog latin posts

1) Teedra UK live dates in September!
2) Teedra and Katy B love-in on Twitter! <3 <3 <3 <3

in case you forgot Siik was the man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xvF5JygKB0

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new song, on the same sample as that one brooke valentine one https://soundcloud.com/teedramoses/all-i-ever-wanted

she was amazing at koko last night btw

wait the album actually appears to be ON ITS WAY and out 23 june

http://www.thisisrnb.com/2015/04/new-music-teedra-moses-get-it-right/

lead single is nice

!!!!!!!!

They're calling her Friday May 8 show in DC an album release gig

album will be out 7 aug

it is really lovely

thanks

she just posted a new mixtape: https://soundcloud.com/teedramoses/sets/clairvoyant-the-mixtape

Waaaaait. How did I miss that she put out a new album?!

Waaaaait. How did I forget that I missed that she put out a new album?!

And how do I always forget how amazing Complex Simplicity is?

15th anniversary edition of Complex Simplicity is out, with some added tracks. It’s on Spotify as well, from where the original album has been absent for a long time, at least where I live.
https://ratedrnb.com/2019/09/teedra-moses-releases-15th-anniversary-edition-of-complex-simplicity/

She’s doing a tour in the US right now and will also be doing a couple of shows in the UK in February.

honestly found it hard to get enthusiastic about most of her post-complex simplicity material but "make me" appeared in my release radar this morning and sounds great:

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

Is it possible for one of the OG teedra fans to please re-up her "young hustla vol 1-3" series? I've been looking online forever, all the links are decayed. I'd appreciate it.