Songoftheday 6/9/20 - When you're alone don't you ever get confused, ain't nothing wrong with making it feel good baby...
from the album Fled (Original Soundtrack) (1996)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #40 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 1
Today's song of the day comes from Tionne Watkins, or "T-Boz", as she goes by as one-third of the R&B group TLC, who in the mid 1990s were just coming off their most successful album of their career, CrazySexyCool, which spun off four top ten pop hits including two #1's in "Creep" and "Waterfalls". But at that same time, because of a horrible record deal that left them paying for every incidental service while their management and label reaped the dough, the trio were filing for bankruptcy by 1995. During that limbo and fight with the label (and Lisa "Left-Eye" Lopez was struggling with a myriad of issues), T-Boz went and recorded a song for the soundtrack to the Laurence Fishburne movie Fled (which had one of the shitty Baldwins, Stephen, in it). Written by Dallas Austin and laid on a sample of Salt-N-Pepa's "My Mike Sounds Nice", Tionne ended up with her own top-40 hit, the only one of the three to do so as a lead artist (Lopez would do better as a guest on a top ten hit for Lil' Kim later on)...
"Touch Myself" reached the top-40 on the American pop chart in August of 1996. The song also climbed to #23 on Billboard magazine's R&B chart. Internationally, the single was a top-40 hit in New Zealand at #33, and peaked at #48 in the UK.
The following year, T-Boz guested on rapper Da Brat's single "Ghetto Love", which made the top-20 on the pop and R&B chart (and will be a future SOTD). In 1999, TLC reunited for their third album Fanmail. T-Boz had a second lead artist chart hit in 2000 with another song from a movie, this time "My Getaway" from the Rugrats In Paris animated film, which peaked at #79 on the R&B chart and got to #44 in the UK. That same year she guested on Mack 10's "Tight To Def", which topped at #65 at R&B. It's her most recent chart appearance in the U.S. as a solo artist.
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There was an alternate version of the video that featured the remix with rapper Richie Rich and removed the movie clips (since the movie bombed)...
Up tomorrow: Vocal soul group sings about the previous evening.
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