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http://www.mtv.com/news/2279047/tlc-no-scrubs-dating-comedians-reflect/ https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/mar/27/tlc-comeback-respect-empowerment-mansplaining-no-scrubs (GUARDIAN) http://www.essence.com/chilli-interview-tlc-tour (ESS) http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a21804/no-scrubs-oral-history/ (ESQUI) http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/official-charts-flashback-1999-tlc-no-scrubs__4745/ (UKCHART) BOOK http://www.vh1.com/news/51790/behind-the-song-tlc-waterfalls/ (VH1+MORE) http://www.idolator.com/7457259/kandi-tlc-no-scrubs-history-pop-school (kandi) http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/the-juice/6049079/tlcs-rozonda-chilli-thomas-reflects-on-the-15th-anniversary-of-no http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/tameka-tiny-harris-on-michael-jacksons-xscape-connection-20140501 (TINY) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/features/scrub0415.htm https://www.yahoo.com/music/kandi-burruss-destinys-child-didnt-like-bug-a-110940961421.html https://singersroom.com/content/2008-11-01/kandi-burruss-the-first-lady/ http://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/09/style/noticed-a-hip-hop-battle-of-the-sexes.html
iconic track (kandi)
It also introduced a new word into the vernacular. (kandi)
immortalized lame men who ride shotgun everywhere. (ESQUI)
Being in a studio is very time-consuming. Sometimes you can't even finish a song and your voice gets tired. But with this particular one, I just knocked it out. (ESQUI)
Kandi Buruss from Xscape wrote the song. I changed up a couple words, but for the most part it was ready. I just needed to jump on and sing it. (ESQUI)
It was one of those songs that's so catchy, you'd find yourself singing it when it wasn't even on. (ESQUI)
I loved that song, too, and I was like, "What did we do?" (ESQUI)
A lot of guys would hate on "No Scrubs" just because of what it was saying. I could be walking in the mall and hear, "Chilli, I ain't a scrub. I ain't no scrub!" Girls telling me, "I don't want no scrub, either." It was like the girlfriend song, for real. Guys were truly adamant about not being a scrub. I think deep down they really liked it and jammed to it in secret. (ESQUI)
We just couldn't believe it. We were always on a high with it. We were thankful that we were even able to stumble across a hit like that. It's a girl anthem. (ESQUI)
Grammy nom (BOOK+[1])
Composition
editKevin Briggs who is responsible for another bills bills, a song that takes trifling, lying and cheating men to task. [3]
The title of the first smash from "Fanmail" - "No Scrubs" - has entered the language as slang (the ultimate pop compliment). A "scrub," in addition to being a traditional sports term for a second-string or inferior player, now also refers to a guy who mooches off the women he dates. Many men have taken offense at the number, considering it a materialistic rant from greedy women. It even inspired an answer song, "No Pigeons" (a term for exploitative females). Lopes admits "men do feel bashed [by the song].
" But she's unrepentant. "The men who get offended by it, I guess, are the ones who really have some insecurities about not being responsible. [4]
[https://rollingout.com/2009/10/13/tony-mercedes-discusses-kandi-burruss-and-why-the-south-is-running-the-record-business/ I took those two and we lobbied with L.A. Reid, Babyface and TLC to have that record put on TLC’s album.] Kandi she casually freestyled the opening lines while driving in the car with her friend — and she was stoked to learn that TLC was interested in the song. (kandi)
originally wrote the song for their ’90s R&B group, Xscape. Ultimately, Burruss decided the song was a better fit for TLC. (VH1)
Scrubs? I think it's an Atlanta thing. We just kind of made it bigger than it was a phrase going around. (TINY)
we were coming together to do a project for ourselves. We were sitting down, coming up with ideas, and when we wrote, we would always come up with a concept first. And she had a concept 'cause she had been, like, "I wanna talk about a screw-up, a guy that's a screw-up that doesn't have their own business in order. It came from a previous relationship that she was in. And we took that and wrote about what we call a scrub. (TINY)
the producer She'kspere had played it for some of the powers that be at LaFace, and they immediately were like, we want this song for TLC. And he came back to us, and we were kind of thinking about it. We were kind of like, 'This is a hit for us. Like, we really feel like we can make it off this song.' Because at this time, Xscape just broke up, and we were really trying to find our way. So it was probably the best thing we probably could have ever ever did by giving TLC that "No Scrubs" record.(TINY)
Release
editSilly Ho first release (BOOK)
Reception
edithttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/tlc-wins-2-at-soul-train-awards/
Charts
edithttp://nztop40.co.nz/chart/?chart=4049
[7] 750,000 - 2000 US (BOOK)
entered the Official Singles Chart at Number 7 (UKCHART)
No Scrubs is the band’s biggest selling single, with a sales tally of over 618,000 copies. (UKCHART)
It was the band’s third Top 10 hit, following 1995’s Waterfalls and 1996’s re-release of Creep and would go on to peak at Number 3, giving the band their highest chart position in the UK. (UKCHART)
Cover
editArguably TLC’s most iconic song (UKCHART)
"Dance with Me (Le Youth song) [8]
Shawn Mendes and James Corden [9]
ZOE SALDANA [10]
Video
editThe video was fun, but a little difficult. When I had to get on that swing — that swing was so tall and wide. I was very intimidated when I walked on set. I had to practice a little bit before shooting because I'm afraid of heights. (ESQUI)
The part at the end where you see us performing together and doing karate chops or whatever was actually us moving in a circle, so we couldn't stand still. We had to keep moving, so we wouldn't fall. Lisa ["Left Eye" Lopes] got a little too excited about karate chopping us, and I got kicked. Tionne [Watkins] kind of got hurt, but it was nothing a little Neosporin couldn't help. Lisa's rap in that scene is my absolute favorite. When she has on the blue gear, she looks like an action hero or something. (ESQUI)
Live performances
editAt the New York show, the former Prince joined the group for a quick guitar solo on “No Scrubs”
http://ew.com/article/1999/11/04/tlcs-fanmail-tour-trouble/ Fanmail
I remember Prince introduced us at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards and said we were his favorite group, and that's huge for someone like him to say. We didn't know he was going to introduce us, either. At the show, we put our spin on "Too Much Booty in the Pants," and 'N Sync was there watching. I think on an award show after, they copied us. They had a remix of something with one of those booty-shaking contests. I wanted to beat up all those boys. (ESQUI)
It was the trio’s most successful single in the UK. (GUARDIAN)
FanMail, the follow-up that spawned No Scrubs, explored empowerment and female identity. (GUARDIAN)
down to its earwormy hook and lyrics that brilliantly call out men with few or no prospects who still think they are worthy of female adoration. It became an anthem of female self-respect, sung by female friends to each other on dancefloors everywhere. It was Gloria Gaynor’s I Will Survive for the 90s. (GUARDIAN)
If 1994’s Waterfalls remains the group’s biggest single, No Scrubs is arguably their most influential. It discussed mansplaining long before that word existed, and pushed back at everyday sexism and unwanted male attention on the street. Songs with similar themes followed it – from Destiny’s Child’s Bills, Bills, Bills to Missy Elliott’s All N My Grill, both of which came out in 1999. Even now, No Scrubs’s influence can be felt. See Lemonade, Beyoncé’s 2016 album, which includes Hold Up and Sorry, which both dissect scrub-like behaviour and celebrate female self-esteem; and Little Mix, currently the hardest-working girl band in pop, whose Shout Out to My Ex is a very TLC-y revenge song that calls out the bad sex and ill-judged tattoos of a previous boyfriend. (GUARDIAN)
Coincidentally, one of their most lucrative songs "No Scrubs" teaches a message of empowerment, that Chilli believes girls should still listen to today. (ESS)
"I remember when we first started, hearing that they [fans] were calling us feminists," she said. "[But] we just tell it how it is." "I absolutely love 'No Scrubs', because the message it has is educational for all girls. And for every generation," she said about the empowering track written by Kandi Burruss and Tameka "Tiny" Cottle about no-good men. "I hope it keeps on living forever and ever, and girls really listen to that, and guys take heed. Maybe some of those scrubs will reform themselves. You know what I mean? There's hope. We've got to keep hope alive." (ESS)
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