Teedra Moses

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i love the "daddy, i'm too cute to fight, you better get that bitch told tonight" line.

also, may i suggest rashaan patterson's After Hours, specifically "So Hot", which i've said elsewhere is the best thing i've heard so far this year.

― john'n'chicago, Thursday, 20 January 2005 22:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Will do - thanks. (It's Rahsaan, not Rashaan, I've discovered)

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 20 January 2005 22:46 (nineteen years ago) link

wow. i'm an idiot. i need to correct the thread i started about the guy.

also, i couldn't get teedra out of my head last night, esp. the title track.

― john'n'chiago, Friday, 21 January 2005 15:57 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

I think "Be Your Girl" has the same piano sample as "One on One" by Nas

saw the video on tv today and, yeah, it does. anyone know just where the sample's from though?

― jermaine, Saturday, 26 February 2005 13:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Ahmad Jamal's The Awakening, apparently.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 26 February 2005 14:04 (nineteen years ago) link

three months pass...

I might be interviewing Teedra tomorrow!

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 2 June 2005 09:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Sweet!

― Negativa, True Believer (You know you love it when I'm dressed in drag) (Barima), Thursday, 2 June 2005 09:38 (eighteen years ago) link

who for? i'd be interested to read it.

― stelfox, Thursday, 2 June 2005 09:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Plan B

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 2 June 2005 09:46 (eighteen years ago) link

I haven't done an interview in about a YEAR. I am actually a little nervous. About two weeks ago I had a daydream about interviewing Teedra, during which I came up with lots of interesting and awesome questions. Needless to say I can remember none of them now.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 2 June 2005 09:48 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

i'd absolutely agree there.
something about last day really gets to me, too, though.

― stelfox, Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:48 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

Teedra is lovely, and very very small.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 3 June 2005 13:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh shit, did you ask her if she'll marry me?

― BARMS, Friday, 3 June 2005 13:18 (eighteen years ago) link

she is very pretty. she looks lovely.

― ppp, Friday, 3 June 2005 13:21 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

I got 25mins in the end which was excellent!

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 3 June 2005 13:34 (eighteen years ago) link

i'll look fwd to reading this and, yeah, the mariah album is fabulous, too.

― stelf)xxx, Friday, 3 June 2005 13:46 (eighteen years ago) link

i like it less than teedra, tho.

― stelf)xxx, Friday, 3 June 2005 13:46 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

look forward to reading it... will keep a look out.

― ppp, Friday, 3 June 2005 14:23 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Great news!

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Sunday, 27 August 2006 13:21 (seventeen years ago) link

"backstroke" remains my favorite

― deej.. (deej..), Sunday, 27 August 2006 15:17 (seventeen 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

(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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

ten months pass...

New song "Love's Gonna Be" here.

A bit disappointing, actually.

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

sample must have cost a fortune

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

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 (fifteen years ago) link

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

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

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