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THE UNPRETTY SINGLE BECAME THE NUMBER ONE SINGLE IN AMERICA ON 9.9.99

THE UNPRETTY SINGLE CAME OUT AUGUST 17TH DEBUTING AT #4.

THE UNPRETTY SINGLE DEBUTED ON THE UK CHARTS AT #6

THE UNPRETTY VIDEO HAS WENT UP AS HIGH AS #4 ON MTV TRL.

THE UNPRETTY VIDEO HAS WENT UP AS HIGH AS #1 ON MTV JAMS.

THE UNPRETTY VIDEO DEBUTED ON MTV'S TOP 20 AT #2


This is the actual "Unpretty" poem from the upcoming book: "Thoughts" by Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins.

if i were you
i wish we could changes shoes
because i would make you feel
unpretty too

i was told i was beautiful
but what does that mean
when you're never secure in relationship
because your man is always in between

my outside look happy
but my insides are blue
feeling so ugly about myself
and it's all because of you

other women can't offer
what i have to give
while you're out having fun
my heart feels like it can't live

when you need someone to be around
i'm always there
but at those times
what happened to
which one was it ?
the one with the long hair?

games people play and i still stay the same
but at the end of the day
i have myself to blame

it was i who was pretty
and you who was not
being with those other ones
just make me available
and more hot

back out on the market
this is true indeed
while you're with on one
it is i who did succeed

and i am pretty........


PRETTY GOOD CHANCE: The year is almost three-quarters over, and so far no artist has had two No. 1 hits on The Billboard Hot 100. That could change next week, if TLC can advance just one position.

The Atlanta trio, which spent four weeks at the summit with "No Scrubs," jumps 4-2 with "Unpretty" (LaFace/Arista).

But if the second single from the "Fan Mail" album is going to reach pole position, it will have to overcome Enrique Iglesias' "Bailamos" (Overbrook/Interscope), on top for a second week, and resist the challenge of "Lost In You," the single by Garth Brooks (as Chris Gaines) that enters the Hot 100 at No. 5, good enough to be the highest-debuting single of the year.



CLICK PHOTO TO SEE TLC REHEARSE "UNPRETTY" AT THE LADY OF SOUL AWARDS.


Billboard "Unpretty" Single Review
TLC
``Unpretty'' (4:01) LaFace
The follow-up to TLC's No. 1 smash ``No Scrubs'' changes the pace and direction of that sassy ditty, with a message song about the importance of discarding all the trappings of external beauty and looking inside for what really counts: ``You can buy your hair if it won't grow/You can fix your nose if you say so/You can buy all the make-up that Mac can make/But if you can't look inside you/Find out who am I, too/Be in a position to make me feel so damn unpretty.'' We're looking at another across-the-board winner here, complemented by a contemporary shuffle beat and cool, midtempo pacing, commandeered by producer Dallas Austin, who wrote this tune with TLC member T-Boz. No reason to give this one even a shadow of a doubt. From the multi-platinum album ``Fanmail.''


UK Single Report: UNPRETTY (TLC)
Not for the first time in their career TLC have the task of following up a massive hit single that during its life managed to buck just about every chart trend going. No Scrubs was first released at the end of March and made an impressive start, charting at Number 7 first week out. When it dropped to 13 the following week you could have been forgiven for accepting that it was just another here today and gone tomorrow hit of which the charts are full these days. Not so as the following week the single was back in the Top 10, embarking on a run that would see it peak at Number 3 and spend a total of 16 weeks inside the Top 40. Now in the past TLC have been occasional one hit wonders, their last single to experience a similar level of success - Creep - was followed by the release of Diggin' On You which could only make Number 18 in November 1995. Of course this is to reckon without the many hidden gems of the Fanmail album of which Unpretty is possibly the brightest. With this new single the three superstars move even further away from their R&B roots and into the field of mainstream pop with the sad tale of the woman made to feel unattractive by the unkind comments of her man. So progressive is the production that it could well be the first ever New Jill Swing single to feature a guitar solo. Unpretty could well stand up as one of the most magnificent singles of the year and this Top 10 placing is the very least that it deserves.


SITTING 'UNPRETTY'(From TV Guide)
This year, as TLC takes the stage at MTV's Video Music Awards (September 9, 8 P.M./ET), the group bears the title of Best-Selling Female Group in History. But the band has an even loftier sense of purpose. "We represent for the small-breasted girls," quips Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas, the C in this R&B/rap trio's moniker. (The T is for Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins; the L is for Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes.) "TLC also stands for 'T---- Less Crew,'" says Thomas, 28. "I'm the president." But as surely as she jests, Thomas is dead serious about the issue of breast implants, which is raised in the group's latest video, for "Unpretty." In a split-second image, the camera zooms in on an implant-removal procedure--silicone yanked through skin. "Some people thought we shouldn't put that in," says Thomas. "But I thought girls needed to see it. Some women's bodies reject those things." Other "Unpretty" scenes: a bulimic vomiting, an African-American student (played by Watkins) suffering a racial assault and a girl (played by Lopes) involved in a gang shooting. While Thomas stops short of blaming the entertainment industry for society's ills--"Where are the parents?"--she worries that "perfect" celebrities in the media have made adolescents feel inadequate. Her concerns are well founded: The number of breast implants among teens has risen 89 percent in the last six years. "I was that girl in the ninth grade whose breasts never came," Thomas says empathetically. Now she says, "Hands up for the small-breasted crew!" - Jennifer Graham


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