TLC had quite the turbulent career. Their unprecedented success was hindered by bancrupcy and ill managment before their final dissolution following the death of Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopez.
TLC remain to this day one of the biggest selling female groups of all time. They have paved the way for many artists thanks to the uniquely feminine touch they brought to the hip-hop/rap genre. Recently notable protégés include Australia's Iggy Azalea who started out in an all girl trio in rural New South Wales claiming to want to be the "Left Eye"of the group.
I've decided to include their 1994 Grammy Award winning single Creep from their (also Grammy Award winning) second album CrazySexyCool. The song samples "Hey Young World" by Slick Rick. The clip features Left Eye (crazy), Chilli (sexy) and T-Boz (cool), lookin' cool as cupcakes in satin PJ's. I have a vague memory of my sister and I reenacting the clip dressed in our (way less cool) PJ's. Shame we don't have that on camera. Between the satin PJ's and the baggy outfits in the next scene this clip is so quintessentially 90's. It's perfect.
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