TLC begging for fan donations to fund final album. Smh

[Ronnie Lott]

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TLC announce return with Kickstarter funded album
One of the definitive groups of 90s R&B return with their fifth LP – their first as a duo



Together again … TLC’s Tionne ‘T-Boz’ Watkins and Rozonda ‘Chilli’ Thomas Photograph: Everett Collection/Rex
Guardian music


@guardianmusic
Tuesday 20 January 2015 03.18 EST
After 13 years away, R&B group TLC have now announced plans to record their fifth and final album. It follow 3D in 2002 and the death of founding member Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes shortly after its release, this will be the first TLC album recorded as a duo.

T-Boz and Chilli plan to fund their new album via a campaign on Kickstarter, and have announced potentially brilliant fan offers for any prospective contributors. Pledges start at $5 for an exclusive remix, and go up to $7,500, including a PDF list of their favourite songs, a voicemail from the pair, a date at the cinema and a “TLC slumber party” with T-Boz.

The group say that crowdfunding the album will let them “have complete creative control” over their music . “The only people we’ll be talking to and asking their opinion is the fans.”

“Our final album will stay true to the TLC sound, always confronting the real issues and life experiences that we all must face every single day, everywhere,” reads a message on Kickstarter. “We write music that people relate to … timeless music. No matter the trends, we feel like our music is always relevant.”

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TLC were one of the definitive R&B groups of the 90s, working with and inspiring a host of music’s biggest producers, such as Missy Elliott, the Neptunes and Timbaland, who helped to produce a string of commercially and critically successful albums: Ooooooohhh … On the TLC Tip (1992), CrazySexyCool (1994), FanMail (1999) and 3D. The group have been relatively out of action since the death of Lopes, who died in a car crash at the age of 30.

After Lopes’ funeral, the remaining members of TLC decided they would complete their unfinished fourth album. In an interview with Billboard, the pair suggested that there could be a possibility Lopes’s vocals would be used on this new release. When asked if they would sample her voice, Chilli replied: “Probably not, but I’m not going to say no, because we’re open to it.”

Jermaine Dupri, LA Reid, Babyface cut that check

 

[TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?]

Jermaine Dupri, LA Reid, Babyface cut that check

tell T-Boz to ask Mac-10 aka the Chicken Hawk to cut that check

 

[Ronnie Lott]

Somebody throw that flat top on TLC

 

[2-Digit]

Asking money from fans??
What about their friends?
Can't they stand their ground?
Nikka, this thread is already up and running....
http://www.thecoli.com/threads/tlc-...the-chance-to-have-a-sleep-over-mjcry.285821/

 

[SPACE IS FAKE]

"Slumber party"

 

[WheresWallace]

All yall niiggas in this thread are stupid.

Everybody is crowd funding these days. Whats the difference between Actors/Directors crowd funding a movie (Veronica Mars, Cac from "Scubs" TV show, and Spike Lee) and a musician crowd funding an album? :camron:

It is actually smart for three reasons.

1. TLC will get an idea of what the customer demand will be for the album before they even release it.
2. They don't have to worry about recouping the album budget and paying back the Record Label. So all money that they make, they get to keep.
3. They keep 100% of their publishing and touring.

You simple muhfucckas don't realize that a record label funding your album is basically like a bank giving you a loan and in exchange for the bank loaning you money, you have to give the bank your publishing and a piece of merchandise, touring, everything (360 deal).

For an iconic group like TLC, their music may very well make a lot of money on the back end (licensing the music for movies/commercials)

 

[beanz]

i wonder if they accepting donations from scrubs

 

[dappadonna]

I will always love T-boz

 

[O.T.I.S.]

Honestly... I won't have thought twice until they started talking about "dates" and "slumber parties"

 

[Flex Kavana]

All yall niiggas in this thread are stupid.

Everybody is crowd funding these days. Whats the difference between Actors/Directors crowd funding a movie (Veronica Mars, Cac from "Scubs" TV show, and Spike Lee) and a musician crowd funding an album? :camron:

It is actually smart for three reasons.

1. TLC will get an idea of what the customer demand will be for the album before they even release it.
2. They don't have to worry about recouping the album budget and paying back the Record Label. So all money that they make, they get to keep.
3. They keep 100% of their publishing and touring.

You simple muhfucckas don't realize that a record label funding your album is basically like a bank giving you a loan and in exchange for the bank loaning you money, you have to give the bank your publishing and a piece of merchandise, touring, everything (360 deal).

For an iconic group like TLC, their music may very well make a lot of money on the back end (licensing the music for movies/commercials)

Nobody is laughing at that, its how they are doing it. Slumber parties? voicemails? Why not just reach the TLC fanbase and say drop a 5 or 10 and help us fund this new album. The stuff they are doing seems really desperate.

 

[Soundbwoy]

i wonder if they accepting donations from scrubs

 

[YaThreadFloppedB!]

Asking money from fans??
What about their friends?
Can't they stand their ground?
Nikka, this thread is already up and running....
http://www.thecoli.com/threads/tlc-...the-chance-to-have-a-sleep-over-mjcry.285821/

 

[MexicanKingpin]

Old ass dusty bytches, they should start selling there bodies to fund the album.

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

nikkas love making fun of their own kind. You guys are really pathetic when I think about it.

People crowdfund all the time from spike lee to the guy that created megaman and I never heard their fans making fun of them.

Same nikkas in here laughing the same militants crying when white artist when grammys or screaming we need to support our own etc etc.

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

Nobody is laughing at that, its how they are doing it. Slumber parties? voicemails? Why not just reach the TLC fanbase and say drop a 5 or 10 and help us fund this new album. The stuff they are doing seems really desperate.

Oh ok it's desperate so let's make fun of them yall