CD OF THE MONTHThis part of the site is a chance for me to point out the CDs that I think are cool. Every month or so a new CD will be featured but it may not always be a new release. Just because it isn't new doesn't mean it isn't cool, right?
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TLC FANMAIL
TLC first hit pop radar in 1991, three hip-hop girls with a wacky yet PC gimmick--they had condoms pinned all over
their clothes. Buoyed by an energetic video and rap-along hit ("Ain't Too Proud To Beg"), the album was a bonafide hit,
selling 2 million records. At this point, the group might have reasonably faded away like so many other one-hit wonders of the
era, having worked its image/gimmick to death. But no: The follow-up was a long time in the making--three years--and the
girls underwent a complete image makeover into the "Crazysexycool" young women that the second album proclaimed them
to be. A massive, top-notch marketing campaign, expensive videos(including one by glossmeister Matthew Rolston) and a
genuinely good, Babyface-produced record paid off--over 5 million records sold. Now five years later they've released yet another hit album "FanMail" off of which sprung the two chart toping hits, "No Scurbs" and "Unpretty". |