Word: tlc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...TLC stands for pure funky...
...hottest groups in R. and B. right now is the vocal trio TLC. The letters stand for the members' nicknames Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes and Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas but there are a lot of other things the name could refer to. Tender Loving Care, of course, is one possibility, and the group's enormously charming new CD, CrazySexyCool, is full of songs about women in search of love, caring and tenderness. Given the well- publicized travails of the group, however Lopes is facing charges that she burned down her boyfriend's house, and Thomas is searching...
Happily, Watkins, Lopes and Thomas have been doing more than getting in the gossip columns lately; they've also been getting better. Their 1992 debut album, Ooooooohhh ... on the TLC Tip, sold almost 3 million copies, but it was instantly forgettable. CrazySexyCool features slinky singing, bouncy beats and grabby rap interludes, and the vocals are stronger and the melodies more piquant than those on the first album. Several songs stand out, including Creep, a funky, slightly jazzy dance number, and the delicately saucy Red Light Special, a love song written by the ubiquitous Babyface (who has composed recent hits...
Still, wolfmen need sympathy. They are, after all, profoundly victims, since they are usually nice guys who didn't ask for supernatural powers and take no pleasure in possessing or being possessed by them. It's Michelle Pfeiffer's task to provide Will with TLC, and as Laura Alden, his super-rich boss's daughter, she is tough, patient and fearless when at the end she must become an especially passionate animal-rights activist...
Lewis is the daughter of the late Reginald F. Lewis, a philanthropist who owned TLC Beatrice Foods and was the first Black alumnus to have a Harvard building named after...