I've accepted the fact that I was probably one of a few teenage boys who watched the TLC bipoic, CrazySexyCool, Monday night. This is how most of the conversations about it went for me yesterday:
Me- "Hey, did you see the TLC movie last night?"
Clueless kid- "You mean the TV channel?"
Me- "No, the girl group-"
Clueless kid- "TLC? Never heard of them."
Me- "You never heard of 'Waterfalls'? 'Creep'? Left-eye???"
Clueless kid "........."
I often forget that most people don't know much about things they weren't alive to remember, nor do they bother to research them- guess that makes me the weird one. It's a little sad that not a lot of young people know about the R&B scene of the 90s. What made acts like TLC, En Vogue, and Aaliyah so popular were that they made songs with women empowering themes but they weren't corny and it was okay for guys to bump them. I'm not going to get too preachy. All I'm saying is if you ever get tired of hearing Rihanna sing about "strippers going up and down that pole", look up "Ooooooooh.. on the TLC Tip", "CrazySexyCool", "Age Ain't Nothing but Nothing but a Number" or "One in a Million," you won't regret it.
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