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Teddy Sinclair spills tea on madge, rih, and alicia
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We're hooked on buzzed-about three-piece girl band known as Cruel Youth, which makes sense considering their soulful with a side of sass sound, hypnotizing debut single, “Mr. Watson” (which recently hit over a million plays on Spotify, #nbd), and magnetic front-woman Teddy Sinclair (FKA Natalia Kills).
From singing her face off to writing songs for the likes of Madonna, RiRi (“Kiss It Better,” anyone?!), and Alicia Keys, Teddy is a total boss babe and our favorite new member of the #aosquad!
Naturally, we almost lost our minds when Teddy visited us at a+o HQ to play a little leopard-heavy dress-up and give us a taste of the musical magic the artist has been brewing behind-the-scenes. It’s also important to note that Sinclair loves her some Alice + Olivia.
In short, Cruel Youth’s debut EP cannot come soon enough. Please don’t be cruel, Teddy. Hurry! Until then, check out our chit-chat with Sinclair, who holds nothing, we mean, nothing back. Teddy’s our kind of cowgirl.
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.
Perfection! What’s the last song you listened to?
“Alexis Texas.” It’s a song off the Cruel Youth record we have been finishing this evening. It’s about one of the first few dates my husband took me on… He said we were going dancing, so I got all dolled up, and we jumped in a taxi, and a few moments later we pulled up at the Eurostar train station. He never mentioned his favorite club was in Paris! That whole weekend was… well, I don’t remember most of it, but I couldn’t tell if we were in Paris or in heaven. Afterward, I had a headache that lasted at least 2 weeks… but it was well worth it. A few months later, we got married.
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.
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