'No Scrubs' Dropped 21 Years Ago, Here's What TLC Are Up To Now

They scrub up good.

On this day 21-years-ago, TLC dropped their third studio-album, FanMail, which of course featured one of the best songs of all time, ‘No Scrubs’.

The song shot up to the top of the Billboard Charts in 1999, solidifying TLC as the biggest girl-group to ever come out of the States. And thus, on the 21st birthday of this fantastic banger, we thought we’d celebrate by looking at all the things the girl-group are up to now.

Sadly, a few years after this album came out, Lisa ‘Left Eye’ Lopez was tragically killed in a car crash. The rapper was conducting charity work in Honduras when she swerved off the road and was thrown from her car on April 25, 2002. A month later, TLC released their fourth studio album to critical and commercial success, before the group went notably silent.

Within the next few years, the other two members dabbled in music, but only a little bit. T-Boz notably made a track that featured on the debut Little Mix album, whilst Chilli dropped her own song in 2008 called, ‘Dumb Dumb Dumb.’ Additionally, Chilli had been expanding from music, attaching her name to a handbag company, fitness products and skincare. We stan a diverse queen.

Over a decade later, in January 2015, Tionne ‘T-Boz’ Watkins and Rozonda ‘Chilli’ Thomas announced they wanted to make a comeback to music, asking fans to fund the project in a Kickstarter campaign. This campaign quickly became the “fastest most funded pop project in Kickstarter history.”

TLC raised over $400,000USD including contributions from many celebrities, including New Kids on the Block (donating $10,000), Katy Perry (donating $5,000), Soulja Boy, Bette Midler and Justin Timberlake. In 2017, T-Boz and Chilli released their self-titled album to critical and commercial success, charting in the top 40 of the Billboard 200.

Since then, T-Boz and Chilli have been touring the world, one festival at a time. They’ve come down under quite a few times too. And now, they’re hitting up London for the 25th anniversary of their equally as iconic album, Crazy Sexy Cool. Also, they’re set to headline Lovers and Friends Fest, which some have called the next Fyre Festival, so… we will see how that goes!

Happy 21st birthday ‘No Scrubs’, a song that will forever live in wedding playlists and R&B nights at clubs.

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Say Thank You To The One Italian Man Who Voiced Every Pingu Character

Thank Noot!

How could we forget the iconic Pingu? The much-beloved, stop-motion tv show gave us five minutes of family-friendly fun whenever we go home from school and dove into our Le Snak’s.

The Switzerland-born show exploded onto the scene and won fans all around the world before being sold to a UK production company in 2001.

Speaking of iconic children’s tv shows, we spoke to Murray from The Wiggles about his potential Lil Nas X collaboration on this episode of It’s Been A Big Day For…

And yes, while we knew that none of the characters spoke English, did you know that all the characters spoke in their own language and were voiced by one man? No, we’re not joking.

Carlo Bonomi is the name of a voice actor from Italy that voiced every, single character for the first four seasons of Pingu, including Pinga, Pingi, Pingo, Pingg, Pongi, Pengy, Pongj and Punki. If you don’t believe me, you just have to watch the footage for yourself.

Bonomi was a famous Italian clown and children’s entertainer who had achieved major success with his show La Linea, which is why he was asked to be a voice on this show. He developed a fictional language for the show, which later became known as Penguinese. It’s essentially gibberish according to David Sant, the voiceover artist who took over the vocals in the early ‘00s.

In an interview with The Guardian, Sant said, “Recording was exhausting. The animators would script each episode in English, then film it with the puppets. Afterwards, we had to translate the scripts into Penguinese, recording each part while watching the characters talking on screen.”

Honesty, we need to see these English scripts, the show has some explaining to do. Like this scene for example.

While we’re in the Pingu mindset, which side character were you?

Next week marks 30 full years since the first-ever episode of the tv show, and we can’t help but reminisce on all the good times.

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'No Scrubs' Dropped 21 Years Ago, Here's What TLC Are Up To Now

Say Thank You To The One Italian Man Who Voiced Every Pingu Character

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