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Lengthy but a good read. 

[Freemala Harris]

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[CREAM.]

I could never get into this album

But congrats!

[Gilgamesh.]

Chili: When the song got leaked, I heard that Timbaland got upset about it. He was feeling like Dallas bit off of his sound or whatever. I didn't think it sounded exactly like his stuff, but it definitely sounded like maybe he could have did a collaboration. It was just a popular sound at the time. The lyrics are so TLC, as far as our whole girl power thing and talking about guys. It's actually one of my favorite songs to perform

ACK!

I never really thought about this at the time but it does have a Timbaland vibe.

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Austin: So this song came in at the last minute. It was originally for Kandi and Tiny because they wanted to do a project together. But I told Kevin, "If you let me have this for TLC, I'll make it the first single." It would be different, with Chili singing the record, rather than us always starting with T-Boz. "No Scrubs" was a breakthrough for Chili because we hadn't focused on her like that for the first two albums. It was a great way to expose her; being a secondary vocalist was not just her purpose. After the song's success, it felt like TLC was a new group, because we took a different approach to reinvent them.

[Freemala Harris]

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T-Boz: Chili ended up doing this as a solo song because it's just too pretty for me. I was too rough and rugged for that at the time, I don't want to talk about missing nobody! [Laughs.] But she sounded amazing and it was totally up her alley. It really highlighted her as a singer. I would have messed the song up!

Chili: We were signed to [FanMail co-executive producer] Babyface?s label [LaFace Records], so I was always around him. He is such a joy to work with. A lot of people do not know that he is actually a really silly guy. He's just very quiet and observes everything. But when we would get in the studio, we just laughed the whole time.

We were at the end of recording the album and I was sick. I had like a sinus infection and was on all these steroids trying to get my voice back all the way. And I asked Babyface, "Can we do [this song] next weekend?" But we had this deadline to finish the album. And so I was just like nasal spraying it up. It was crazy. I wanted to redo it because I sounded stuffy. But he thought it sounded good and was going to work out well. I just loved being in the studio with him because he helps to bring out things in you that you didn't even know you had.

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T-Boz: I went into the booth and attempted to do it, because the verses were written [by Diane Warren] for me. I came out and said, ?Diane, I?m sorry but I can?t do this!? [laughs] She is an amazing writer, and I love her because she respected my views. I told her to give it to Chili because it was such a sexy song. ?Red Light Special? [from 1994?s CrazySexyCool] worked for me, but not ?Come On Down.?

Chili: I don't know who she originally wrote this song for, but she told me on the phone that whoever it was didn't want to sing it. I loved everything about "Come On Down" because you know what it's talking about, but it was very nicely subliminal. I loved the country feel of the record, so I couldn't wait. And she was so excited that I wanted to do it. She wasn't actually in studio with me 'cause we recorded it in Atlanta and she was in LA. But I was happy that she was so happy with it. It's definitely one of my favorite songs because I do like a little touch of country. It reminded me of something Shania Twain would do.

[MelMel]

they were ahead of their time, reading Mays and Trey fucking DOWNE on this

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[Admin]

I didn't know they did a Shout Remix with Enrique and Sheila E. Too bad it was never released.

[L0NZ.]

Silly Ho
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[L0NZ.]

Loved seeing TBoz talk about the songs. She really gets in depth and I didn't know she wrote so much.

Silly Ho doesn't really give me Tim outside of the sporadic syncopation, which ironically was always what I liked most about it.

And I always thought Chilli sounded funny on Miss You So Much. She was sick. I love that song