What is TLC's signature song?

Asking for reasons.

‘What about your friends?’ for me. Although, after looking at the thread title again, not sure if it’s their signature song.

Edit: Baby, baby, baby, and ain’t 2 proud 2 beg are also high up there. Not trying to be one of those ‘their early stuff’ kinda guys. I think I love that era because I loved their Daisy Age style and new Jack swing beats when I was 10 and it’s never changed. I liked all the singles from crazy sexy cool too, but looking back now, their early style was super queer and campy and I guess I just prefer that.

Yeah.

Honestly Oooooooooo On the TLC Tip, CrazySexyCool, and Fanmail might as well be by three different groups. I don't know if there is an actual answer to this question.

If you put a murder weapon to my head I guess I'd say "Waterfalls".

All those songs and others are so great. I voted “Scrubs” simply because the nostalgia I associate with it is stronger.

In my private universe it is waterfalls, but over time meeting actual TLC fans they tend to belt out scrubs all the time to the point I’m like ok that is the defining tlc track

I went with Creep. Even though I also don't think I'm qualified at all to pick this.

For whatever reason, that's the song that immediately popped out to me. The other two were just so damn HUGE pop culture-wise... so much so that in my head they occupy the position of like, pop culture signature songs. Whereas Creep was just a cool ass, sexy jam that seemed like the sort of thing that TLC was about absent any ten week long runs at number one on whatever billboard chart. With that in mind, I felt like the group would want that to be considered their signature song, if that makes sense.

Maybe I'm misremembering how comparatively less popular "Creep" was, I dunno.

What is their most defining hot?

"No Scrubs" is dominating on Spotify, Last.fm and YouTube. It's not even close. And it's not what I expected! Does it have a Zoomer appeal that the others don't?

All three of these songs are super 90$ Music...  but Waterfalls is the only one that I see as inescapably 90s, to the point that I feel like anybody who wasn't there at the time is missing something. In terms of Zoomer appeal, I think you're probably on to something. Scrubs' theme is...  enduring. And it was a big enough pop hit that it was never going to just go away and stop being a huge ass jam. Creep, as much as I think it's a rad song, was never at the same pop radio behemoth level.

undo wrote:Does it have a Zoomer appeal that the others don't?

Yes, for various reasons, including that TLC got songwriting credits on the biggest pop hit of 2017 (an Ed Sheeran song that I think I've successfully avoided hearing) because it borrowed from their song. No Scrubs is just one of those songs that transcends eras and generations and becomes something that everybody knows.

It was huge when it came out too. As an early fan when it seemed like barely any of my peers cared, I couldn't fathom how massive they were in the Fan Mail cycle.