In an interview with Australian 7 Network's Sunrise morning show, Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins and Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas talked about the girl group's iconic legacy, the loss of third member Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, and what the future holds for the group. Also in the interview, they mention the mentality of music today, in which artists use their sex appeal to sell music and wear povacative clothing and do controversial things to pull in views. Mentioned in the clip is Rihanna, who the voiceover guy claimed they "singled out". Because of this part, the interview blew up around the world. Here it is below.
And of course, Rihanna responded in the way she did. She took a picture of TLC and used it as the cover photo on her Twitter page. The picture? One of them is topless and covers her breasts!
God, that is funny as hell.
And before I say something, I'm not gonna be some Helen Lovejoy/Moral Guardian-type person. I'm saying this how I want to say it.
TLC made a huge point. It annoys me when artists show off too much skin in their music videos and sing about sex and drugs in their songs. It's not very good and there are other topics in the world and history to write about, and not with with the freedom of female love in the subtext. You're already famous enough to be known and beloved by fans; it's not mandatory to show off yourself every freaking video. It's cool to show of a little skin; I really don't mind. But doing this over and over, when everyone already knows who you are, is just annoying to me and a lot of other people. But hey, at the end the day, it's what it's all about. It makes record execs a lot of money, and they get really happy. And if record execs are happy, they don't care about anything else. Money talks.
Also, the whole interview was taken totally out of proportion. Despite what the anchors (foolishly) said at the beginning at the clip and the "singled out" thing, TLC never mentioned Rihanna by name at all in the interview. They never even implied her either; they just said what they said about sex selling in music in general. No names were mentioned, and if a name was mentioned, then that person has a right to call foul. Rihanna has no right.
And the thing is, Rihanna was overreacting a little to try to make a point. She did try to make one by saying that TLC are hypocrites for dissing her and her plan to sell music, when they did it too. But they never said "wearing something with your stomach showing", they said "HALF-NAKED". Big difference, meaning they're wearing pants most of the time. And that was in a picture, not a video. And I bet'cha she didn't find that photo herself; she probably got it from her social media people or one of her whiny, obsessive fans. See "Prombat".
So point, match, game TLC.
...and y'all probably don't know what "spade a spade" is until T-Boz said it.
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