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Tlc were The First Girl Group to have a diamond-plate-representing a turnover of More Than 10m

twenty-five years ago, on 15 November 1994, Tlc crazy released sexy cool - a groundbreaking mix of rap, soul and R& B, she made the Best -selling female band in U.S. history.

the title is supposedly The Band 's personalities: Lisa "Left Eye" refers to Lopes brought the crazy to have hired the recorded vocals on day release from the court, in rehab, After the burn-off in your friend's house in a jealous rage. Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, and your no-fuck-given attitude and raspy voice, was effortlessly cool; while Rozanda "Chilli" Thomas, for the purposes of this anecdote, the "sexy one" (also an incredible voice and no shortage of attitude) had.

Powered by The Hit singles Creep and waterfalls, it is The First album by a Girl Group was to achieve diamond status (10 million sales) in the United States. Worldwide, only the Spice Girls " Spice has sold more.

to mark the record's anniversary, the announced band, a one-off show at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire in June next year; and the Chilli jumped on The Phone to talk to the BBC about the making of The Album and how they ended up bankrupt, After his release.

she began with the title and worked from there, Tlc in 1994 (L-R): Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins and Rozanda "Chilli" Thomas, Though, The Song Kick your game includes the phrase "crazy sexy cool" in its lyrics The Album title in front of the whole project.

"We went in letting producers know that this was the name - and this is how The Album should sound," says Chili.

"crazy sexy cool was our version of" I'm Every woman. Every woman has a crazy or sexy or even a cool page. You can get all three, but one is definitely more in the foreground than The Other . "

What is the dominant feature For You ?

"A-ha!" she shouts laughing with a hearty. "It depends on The Day . Of crazy might be the more dominant at times. But cool or sexy? I don't know it. It's just a matter of. "

waterfalls changed their careerTLC Signature Song is a socially conscious ballad, tackles drug addiction and the HIV epidemic (so that it is The First Number One single not to mention disease). It changes the perception of the people in The Band received two Grammy nominations and the MTV Video of the Year award.

With its intricately woven harmonies, and a rubber-band bassline, The Track is proof of the growing confidence in the studio.

"We were to understand at the beginning, as our singing interlocking rap at the end, with T-Boz's raspy voice, my high notes and Lisa's," she says.

"It didn't matter what kind of song it was, again, our voices came, a Tlc record. "

And what means "don' T go Chasing Waterfalls " actually mean?

"Everything that is destructive, the hunt for a waterfall. "

Tlc knew that the record would be a hit, The Group won two Grammys - Best R& B album and Best R& B Performance 1996 "The Album was a lot of fun. We did not feel the pressure of the second album "Jinx , we were simply delighted to be in the studio Coming Up with new material," says Chili.

"And I Remember When we were done, a man who said in the case of Arista Records , "It is a great album and you guys selling a couple of million".

"We were like, 'A couple of million? We sell five million. A minimum of'.

"But we were not looking at it like, 'we think we are great". We only knew it was something very special. It was one of those albums where you don't want to jump to the next title. It is rare that a project such as this. "

The Album received the Prince's blessing Tlc had previously covered Prince's ' Get It Up for the soundtrack to House Party 3 The Song If I is Your girlfriend a Cover of the Prince - single - Originally an ode to his girlfriend, Susanna Melvoin, in which he would have fantasised to switch between the sexes, so he has the same emotional intimacy together with her Best Friend .

Tlc version loses this psycho-sexual complexity, but otherwise stuck close to the Prince version. Chilli says, they were careful to be respectful, for an important reason: Prince is the finished version wanted to hear, before its approval.

"The fact that Prince even allowed was a big thing, because he never approved of someone doing covers of his songs," she says.

"It was always, 'no, no, no," and we thought it would probably still be a no for us. So, if he gave us The Green light, we were like, 'Whaaaat? !'

"After that, all we cared about was, 'Will he be OK with it?' And it's not so crazy, because, of course, we sound like Prince. Tionne ' s scratchy voice does not sound certainly as his.

"But he heard it, and he loved it, so that's All That matters. "

her first Magazine shoot, she got in trouble Lisa Lopes [L] was sentenced to five years probation and therapy in a house on half-way After setting fire to her boyfriend ' To announce s mansion, The Album , arrival, Tlc , gave in an interview with Vibe Magazine , the First Time she had met The Press since Lisa Lopes set fire to The House of her soccer-playing partner Andre Rison .

"I'm looking for in the closet, they would be made available, and they had police uniforms, firefighter uniforms," recalls Chili.

"Everything that was done Lisa was behind me. I was not even think about it. It didn't even dawn on me you were to have a small ratchet, to choose that type of clothing for us.

"So, I'm like, 'Oh my God, we have to wear this fireman stuff! This is so dope!' And, of course, was The Cover art - Tlc : Burning up The Charts and Burning Down The House !

"Lisa was on parole, and of course the judges saw it, so it was, as we were only a few small bad girls unconcerned about this huge situation.

"But I swear it has not come to us, to the Magazine , the estates met, and I said, 'Oh, my God, we are in so much trouble!'"

Then, The Band held their boss Hostage . The Scene was new for the 2013 TV movie crazy sexy cool: The Tlc Story, Famous, Tlc insolvency was shortly After the crazy published sexy cool. According to T-Boz, have made the entry of a $75m for their record company, but The Band members were only paid $50,000 each.

Frustrated with being given conflicting information about who's in control of your payments, The Trio decided to go straight to The Top - marching in to their record company and hold Clive Davis , President of Arista Records , as a Hostage .

If The Scene had been recreated, in which many fans thought either exaggerated or invented.

"Oh, no, honey, that was not a work of fiction," laughs chilli. "As a matter of fact, it was defused a little bit for TV. "

"We were not hot [angry], because we do not understand how we could sell all these records to show up with anything For You . So it was like, 'Okay, let's just go to The Source '.

"We brought met some of the girls, Lisa, when she was in the diversion Center. These were the big girl, big and scary, and we put the two outside Clive's office and a girl on the inside. And unless we do not have you come the to in or out, no matter who it was.

"It was like a real movie and I'm like," What were we thinking?' But we have nothing to lose. "

your financial problems are over, now The Band went on to sell millions of copies of their third album, Fanmail, with a fair record contract, After the New York police was on the heels of the stand-off with Clive Davis to the end, but The Band won, and their contracts were renegotiated (the insolvency was, in fact, a decisive step towards the restructuring of their finances.)

In recent years, they have also re-registered all of their old songs, giving them ownership to the master, and a greater proportion of the royalties.

"Now, if anyone wants to no the licenses to the songs, you can come to us instead of somewhere else," says Chili.

are you ready to celebrate crazy sexy cool anniversaryHow is The Album reaches its silver anniversary is a mystery, says chilli.

"My great-grandmother told me when I was little, 'When you become an adult, The Years go by super-fast'. I didn't know what she meant, when I was A Kid , but I get it now!"

But she and T-Boz are ready to put the record back on The Road in the year 2020.

"We have a couple of beautiful visual surprises and we are very proud of the hard work that we have in the implementation of The Show together, so that we can see very eager to see you," she says.

it's hard in the songs, without Left eye, who died tragically young in a car accident 17 years ago.

"We felt [the absence of] any more, of course, right After you passed, when we had to work more," says The Singer . "But over The Years , the cure. And I don't think you can ever 100% heal, 'cos this is our sister and we love you. But your memory lives on through us, and we are not looking at it as a sad thing more and more. "

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Source of news: bbc.com