Teddy Sinclair for Alice & Olivia talks Madonna, Rih, and Alicia Keys

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full interview: https://www.aliceandolivia.com/LISTENUPQAWITHTEDDYSINCLAIR

 

 

Describe Cruel Youth's sound in 5 words:

Love Letters Written From Broadmoor [Editor’s note: Broadmoor Hospital is an insane asylum in England.

 

What’s it like writing and recording with your husband, Willy Moon, in your home studio?

Excessive. Cowboy hats with kimonos, ball gowns with Adidas football jackets, tiaras with t-shirts…Willy describes it as Mallory Knox [Juliette Lewis’s character in ‘Natural Born Killers’] goes to Woodstock dressed as Iris [Jodie Foster’s character in ‘Taxi Driver.’] I think that’s fairly accurate. I think I’m caught in a landslide of overindulgence in all the things I wasn’t allowed to be when I was signed to a major label. All the things that make me… me. My Uruguayan grandmother raised me, and when she died she left me every piece of jewelry and furniture she had collected from the 60s and 70s, so I’ve been wearing every ring and necklace every day all at once… There’s no space left on my body so I’m just stacking rubies, on gold, on Cristo Redentor pendants. We bought midcentury wall paper and used all her furniture to recreate her home in our studio, and that’s where we make the Cruel Youth records.

How would you describe your look these days?

Excessive. Cowboy hats with kimonos, ball gowns with Adidas football jackets, tiaras with t-shirts…Willy describes it as Mallory Knox [Juliette Lewis’s character in ‘Natural Born Killers’] goes to Woodstock dressed as Iris [Jodie Foster’s character in ‘Taxi Driver.’] I think that’s fairly accurate. I think I’m caught in a landslide of overindulgence in all the things I wasn’t allowed to be when I was signed to a major label. All the things that make me… me. My Uruguayan grandmother raised me, and when she died she left me every piece of jewelry and furniture she had collected from the 60s and 70s, so I’ve been wearing every ring and necklace every day all at once… There’s no space left on my body so I’m just stacking rubies, on gold, on Cristo Redentor pendants. We bought midcentury wall paper and used all her furniture to recreate her home in our studio, and that’s where we make the Cruel Youth records.

Favorite memories working with Madonna?

Eating cookies and watching her teach me how to seduce boys.

Rihanna?

Getting high, laughing and talking to each other about wanting to make more songs about getting high.

Alicia Keys?

She knew I didn’t like big, grey-walled, air-conditioned recording studios because I find it harder to access my ideas in such an unnatural environment. So, after our first couple of sessions, she surprised me by having her team move the electric piano and all of the recording equipment up onto the roof so we could look out over all of the New York lights and write our songs under the moon.

 

full interview: https://www.aliceandolivia.com/LISTENUPQAWITHTEDDYSINCLAIR

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I still don't understand who are the components of this band except teddy 

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22 minutes ago, flopheart said:

I still don't understand who are the components of this band except teddy 

here they are

teddy blurs them out because she's a bad bitch

 

http://atrl.net/forums/showthread.php?p=36005054#36005054

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This palette of colors look do wonders with her. Fashion is on point.

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28 minutes ago, PERFECTIONIST said:

What’s it like writing and recording with your husband, Willy Moon, in your home studio?

It’s a bit like ‘Fawlty Towers’ meets ‘Natural Born Killers.’ We make music about 12 hours a day, so it’s lovely to spend time together playing with the ideas in each other’s heads. I love writing songs with Willy -- he has a particular vision of me and the bits of my voice and personality to shine a spotlight on… and his brain goes to such extreme places that we could be sat right next to each other, but he’s as far as Mars between his ears. We work on his record, too, and he always has a particular way of playing guitar that’s really memorable, as if it’s a person singing, not just noise in the background… it balances the detail in my lyrics better than anyone else I’ve ever worked with, and we still mess around and have all the fun that regular married couples enjoy.

What’s it like writing and recording with your husband, Willy Moon, in your home studio?

Excessive. Cowboy hats with kimonos, ball gowns with Adidas football jackets, tiaras with t-shirts…Willy describes it as Mallory Knox [Juliette Lewis’s character in ‘Natural Born Killers’] goes to Woodstock dressed as Iris [Jodie Foster’s character in ‘Taxi Driver.’] I think that’s fairly accurate. I think I’m caught in a landslide of overindulgence in all the things I wasn’t allowed to be when I was signed to a major label. All the things that make me… me. My Uruguayan grandmother raised me, and when she died she left me every piece of jewelry and furniture she had collected from the 60s and 70s, so I’ve been wearing every ring and necklace every day all at once… There’s no space left on my body so I’m just stacking rubies, on gold, on Cristo Redentor pendants. We bought midcentury wall paper and used all her furniture to recreate her home in our studio, and that’s where we make the Cruel Youth records.

 

She looks like Foxes in that pic btw

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55 minutes ago, PERFECTIONIST said:

here they are

teddy blurs them out because she's a bad bitch

 

http://atrl.net/forums/showthread.php?p=36005054#36005054

oh cool thank u 

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On 9.9.2016 at 6:04 PM, flopheart said:

I still don't understand who are the components of this band except teddy 

Natalia and Verbalicious I guess

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I am so here for this EP. For simply producing this music in an in-home studio with her husband and band-mates, it sounds so polished and professional. The lyrics are deep and meaningful. The music video for Mr. Watson is incredible. This is how you make music on a budget. Teddy Sinclair slays and she looks blood gorgeous. I cannot wait for the EP to drop. I wish people would get over this X-Factor nonsense and just stan her as a talented musician.