Songoftheday 7/29/18 - Every now and then I get a little crazy that's not the way it's supposed to be, sometimes my vision is a little hazy I can't tell who I should trust or just who I let trust me...
from the album Ooooooohhh...On The TLC Tip (1992)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #7 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 21
Today's song of the day comes from the groundbreaking R&B/hip-hop trio from Atlanta, TLC, whose debut album Ooooooohhh...On The TLC Tip had scored them a pair of huge pop hits with "Ain't Too Proud To Beg" and "Baby-Baby-Baby", the latter spending six weeks at #2 on the American Top-40 in August and September of 1992. The third release from the record would be the up-tempo "message" song "What About Your Friends". Written by Dallas Austin with TLC member Lisa "Left-Eye" Lopes providing the rap interlude, the song was the most interesting of the bunch, with a slinky beat driving their reflections on trust and truth...
"What About Your Friends" became TLC's third consecutive top ten pop hit in America in November of 1992. The song spent one week at #2 on Billboard's R&B chart as well. Internationally, the single reached the top-40 in New Zealand (#19), but was only a minor hit in Canada (#44), the UK (#59), and Australia (#79).
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There was an alternate cut of the video that started them out in the set from their previous videos...
And here are the girls rockin' it out on Showtime At The Apollo in 1992...
And on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, along with previous hit "Baby-Baby-Baby"...
For kids TV, they spoofed their own song for "What About Your Food"...see if you can spot all the classic hip hop jams they include...
And finally, T-Boz and Chilli live in concert in 2015 (RIP Left-Eye)....
Up tomorrow: British "Diva" needs to tread lightly.
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