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TLC Working With Hamilton Musical For Their Upcoming Musical, Plan New TLC Music & TV Show

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TLC revealed exclusively during a recent panel they were part of at ‘90s Con on Sunday (Sept 17) that the TLC musical that they have been working on will be a collaboration with the team behind the ground breaking Hamilton musical!

“We’re working on a Broadway play”, T-Boz stated when asked what plans TLC have in the works in the future. “The cool thing, we do have a lot of people that worked on Hamilton working with us for ours“, Chilli adds to the exciting announcement.

“I wanna audition!”, Joey Fatone of *NSYNC jokes after the initial announcement. Joey participated in the panel alongside TLC and Backstreet Boys’ Howie Dorough and AJ McLean.

TLC on the 90s Con music panel

The ladies were tight-lipped about any further details about their musical or which members of the Hamilton team they have been working with. However, T-Boz assured the crowd at the Tampa Convention Center in Florida that the musical would indeed come with some brand new TLC music.

“That means we’ll have new music for the play”, T-Boz confirms to the excited crowd who cheered and applauded the news.

To round off the announcement, T-Boz quickly adds, “And we’ll have a new TV show, which we can’t talk about [yet]”.

The Hamilton Broadway musical is a sung-and-rapped-through biographical musical with music, lyrics, and book by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Composed over a seven-year period from 2008 to 2015, the music draws heavily from hip-hop, as well as R&B, pop, soul, and traditional-style show tunes.

Scene from the ‘Hamilton’ musical

TLC first revealed details of their plans to produce a TLC musical back in 2019 whilst promoting their ‘Whole Lotta Hits’ tour with Nelly and Flo Rida. “We didn’t tell everything. I mean, we have so many stories to tell that we didn’t tell in our biopic on VH1. But it’s a lot of stuff, a lot of good stuff”, Chilli said.

“It’s going to be very emotional, but like a good ride. I’m very excited about it. I almost can’t believe it!”

Are you looking forward to the upcoming TLC musical, music and TV show?

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TLC Return to 90s Con 2023 with Meet & Greet Opportunities in Florida

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After the success of their first 90s Con appearance in 2022, TLC are making an exclusive return to this years event in Tampa, FL!

T-Boz and Chilli will be showing up to celebrate their legacy with fans at the Tampa Convention Center on the weekend of September 16 & 17, 2023.

TLC had the opportunity to reunite with members of super boy groups *NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys at last years event. The ladies later took part in a panel with the guys where they gifted fans with an acapella of the TLC classic, “Waterfalls“!

TLC with BSB’s Nick & AJ (2022) Nick Cinea Photography
TLC at 90s Con 2022

90s Con will hold a very special place in Chilli’s heart, as it was there that she initially met her soul mate, Matthew Lawrence, in passing as they both were in attendance at the event!

Tickets are still available for the 90s Con 2023 event this weekend, but photo ops are very limited!

A group photo combo opportunity with TLC, Joey Fatone of *NSYNC and Nick Carter, AJ McLean and Howie Dorough of Backstreet Boys will cost you $355 on both days.

Photo ops solely with TLC will cost you $150 on both days. However, only a handful of these tickets are left for Saturday. More tickets are available for the Sunday session. TLC’s session begins at 3:15PM on both days.

Photo Op tickets can be purchased here. Please remember you will also need entrance tickets to the event, which can be purchased here. (Saturday pass tickets are sold out).

Have a great time if you are able to attend the event! Check out last year’s awesome “Waterfalls” acapella performance!

Update: Check out some highlights from the 2O23 90s Con event below:

Carl with TLC
Luigi with Chilli
Carrie Tenney with TLC & Left Eye tribute photo
TLC on the 90s Con music panel
TLC with Nick Carter and AJ McLean (Backstreet Boys) & Joey Fatone (*Nsync)
TLC pose in the KITT car used in ‘Knight Rider‘
Luigi with TLC
Carl with T-Boz
Jimmy with TLC

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MTV Animate TLC’s 1999 “No Scrubs” VMA Performance with MTV Dating Shows Nostalgia

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MTV gave TLC the animated treatment last week (Sept 6) via their Video Music Awards social media, as they recreated the iconic performance of “No Scrubs” in 1999.

MTV hired the services of animation creator’s Cartuna and LotusFly Animation, who jointly collaborated on the project to produce a 3D animation mash-up of the “No Scrubs” video along with the original audio and costumes from the performance at the VMA’s!

They added a little twist by including elements of some of the most nostalgic MTV dating shows of the past, including ‘Room Raiders‘ and ‘Singled Out‘, which aid T-Boz, Chilli and Left Eye in their decisions to ditch the guys that were no good for them, as they sit on judging panel chairs reminiscent to ‘The Voice’!

TLC are a huge part of MTV and VMA history, having dominated the 1995 award show with 4 major wins including Video Of The Year, a first for a black artist at the time, trumping some major competition from Michael and Janet Jackson!

They went on to add a 5th award to their accolades in 1999, when they took home the award for Best Group, beating stiff competition from megaselling groups such as *NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys!

TLC at the MTV 1995 VMA’s

It was hoped that the animation was a sign that TLC was hopefully going to be involved in the 2023 VMA’s (Sept 13) in some form, but that was not the case, unfortunately. Instead, legendary awards were presented to Diddy and Shakira this year.

So, it was unclear what the new TLC animation was commissioned for. The clip baffled TLC member Chilli, who commented, “What in the heck is this?” on the post. It might help if MTV informed the artists prior to including them in their work.

TLC most definitely deserve an honary award at the VMA’s for their impact to the culture, record-breaking album sales, and opening the doors for women to express themselves however they wish to!

We cannot deny Left Eye’s influence on the many female rappers that she has paved the way for, and to see so many of them at the 2023 VMA’s as performers including Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion, Doja Cat and Nicki Minaj, was phenomenal! It is amazing to see how far female rap has come!

Check out the MTV animation below!

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K-Pop Girl Group BLACKPINK Reveal How TLC Inspired Their Career

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BLACKPINK are one of the biggest girl group’s out right now dominating the music scene since their inception back in 2016. Hailing from South Korea, BLACKPINK have managed to win their fans over with their infectious melodies and dance moves.

The group are a perfect combination of genres K-pop, hip-hop, R&B, trap and EDM. Although other K-pop girl groups have had success such as XG, BLACKPINK remain the biggest selling Korean girl group internationally.

Back in April, BLACKPINK members Jisoo, Jennie, Lisa and Rosé took part in the series finale of Carpool Karoke with James Corden. During the episode, whilst elaborating on their musical influences, the ladies reveal that they drew inspiration from other legendary girl groups such as the Spice Girls and of course, the iconic TLC.

BLACKPINK ‘Born Pink’ tour (2023)

Like TLC, BLACKPINK had the triple threat ability to not only sing and dance, but also rap, with members Jennie and Lisa taking on the rapping within the group, as Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes did with TLC. They have previously collaborated with Cardi B on the single, “Bet You Wanna“.

Jennie explains why BLACKPINK were so inspired by TLC. “We loved TLC’s music,” Jennie said. “They had vocals, they had raps. Then they had a bit of hip-hop.” TLC’s fun personalities and individual style can also be seen as an influence in BLACKPINK.

The group were then delighted when they were offered the opportunity to sing along to one of their favorite TLC songs, “No Scrubs“, along with Corden.

TLC on tour in 2019

During the group’s initial creation, they would spend years in a boot camp-like training school, where they would spend countless hours rehearsing, performing and studying various music and groups like TLC and Spice Girls.

BLACKPINK are also a hugely successful touring act, managing to trump TLC’s record-breaking Fanmail tour sales which grossed $72.8m in 2000, an impressive feat despite the tour ending early. However, with over 85m album sales to date, it will take a while for another girl group to outsell the diamond-certified number one sales set by TLC.

TLC on the ‘Fanmail’ tour (2000)

It would be a huge economic success if the top girl groups of the world like BLACKPINK, TLC and the Spice Girls did a joint tour one day. It would be a unique blend of nostalgia meets the present — ultimate girl power!