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I was going through my CDs and I found out that I apparently own "Oooh... On the TLC Tip"-- the first CD by TLC. It's interesting to remember that the group was very political originally.
TLC's final track ("Conclusion") includes a bit about words cannot express to you how important safe sex is to us-- what some of us toy around with can easily become a deadly weapon. Actually, my favorite song on TLC's first CD is called "His Story", dedicated to Tawana Brawley, a young Black woman who spoke out about being raped six White men. This is a story of a male/female threat to society/ why you wanna go and tell a lie on me? His story, over mine/ his story will be his story and/ my story is a waste of time...
I feel like they lost some of that edge-- Salt n' Pepa faded out of the limelight quickly, but TLC didn't. While, TLC's second, and breakthrough, CD was political, it didn't wear its politics on its sleeve the way their first album did. "Waterfalls" was a powerful song, but it was a little quieter, a little bit less agressive. This is not to say it was bad, but I do remember being surprised the first tiem I heard "Oooh... On the TLC Tip" at how much more pointed it was. The songs have more hard edges-- their sound, as well as their music was more polished in their second album.
Their third CD was... well, disappointing, as a recall. I vaguely remember "Unpretty"-- a song about female self image, but the focus was gone. Might have something to do with all the infighting and lawsuits, but still.
There's no real point to this post except that I think I'll listen to Salt-N-Pepa and TLC tomorrow. Whatever happened to my copy of CrazySexyCool?
TLC's final track ("Conclusion") includes a bit about words cannot express to you how important safe sex is to us-- what some of us toy around with can easily become a deadly weapon. Actually, my favorite song on TLC's first CD is called "His Story", dedicated to Tawana Brawley, a young Black woman who spoke out about being raped six White men. This is a story of a male/female threat to society/ why you wanna go and tell a lie on me? His story, over mine/ his story will be his story and/ my story is a waste of time...
I feel like they lost some of that edge-- Salt n' Pepa faded out of the limelight quickly, but TLC didn't. While, TLC's second, and breakthrough, CD was political, it didn't wear its politics on its sleeve the way their first album did. "Waterfalls" was a powerful song, but it was a little quieter, a little bit less agressive. This is not to say it was bad, but I do remember being surprised the first tiem I heard "Oooh... On the TLC Tip" at how much more pointed it was. The songs have more hard edges-- their sound, as well as their music was more polished in their second album.
Their third CD was... well, disappointing, as a recall. I vaguely remember "Unpretty"-- a song about female self image, but the focus was gone. Might have something to do with all the infighting and lawsuits, but still.
There's no real point to this post except that I think I'll listen to Salt-N-Pepa and TLC tomorrow. Whatever happened to my copy of CrazySexyCool?