ARTIST

TLC

Somewhere between Public Service Announcements and your lovable, bratty, kid sister lies TLC, as pre-fab as New Kids On The Block and as sassy as a Riot Grrl band. Throughout the '90s, (Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, and Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas) successfully engineered a public transformation from hyperactive teens to smooth starlets.

TLC first hit the pop radar in 1991. Buoyed by an energetic video and rap-along hit ("Ain't Too Proud To Beg"), the album was a bonafide hit, selling 2 million records. At this point, the group might have reasonably faded away like so many other one-hit wonders of the era, having worked its image/gimmick to death. But no: The follow-up was a long time in the making three years) and the girls underwent a complete image...
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