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Music News: TLC Turns to Kickstarter to Fund Final Album
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And what if it flops? ![@michael.](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/korn0818/ATRL_Smilies_All/atrlers/micheal_zps45ccf519.gif)
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Member Since: 3/31/2012
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If these pigeons don't go on somewhere.
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Member Since: 11/22/2010
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...album-with-you
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To our AMAZING fans!
We have SUPER EXCITING NEWS to share with you!
WE ARE RECORDING OUR LAST AND FINAL ALBUM.
And we want to do it with YOU, our FANS (our babies!!).
We owe so much of our success to you. Your loyalty and support throughout the past 20 years motivates us to do our best work. Without you, we wouldn't have ten top 10 singles and four number 1 singles. We wouldn't have won five Grammy awards or sold 65 million records worldwide. Without you, we wouldn't have become the most successful girl group of all time! Without you there would be no TLC!!
This album, our FINAL ALBUM, is dedicated to all of you that have stuck with us, always challenging us to do our best. And of course, it’s for the new fans too! We just want to put out great music that touches everyone. That’s it.
Now about that SOUND!
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. We write music that people relate to...timeless music. No matter the trends, we feel like our music is always relevant.
You'll always have a guy hanging out the passenger side!
And sometimes you'll feel damn unpretty!
We will continue to make music for EVERYONE, music that's UNIVERSAL, TOUCHABLE.
This final album will be the first studio album by the two of us. Of course, Lisa's spirit will always be present in our music. That will never change.
We have already enlisted many key members from our original team (we’re looking at you KANDI BURRUSS!), plus many more!
We will be announcing more members of the team and other news in the days to come here on Kickstarter.
You might be thinking, why NOW?
While major labels offer artists multimillion dollar recording and marketing budgets, they don't often give artists complete control of their own music. It is ESSENTIAL that we create our final album completely on our own terms, without any restrictions, with YOU.
Plus, we are still singing. It’s what we love to do, so WHY NOT?!
We feel so blessed to have this opportunity to continue making music, and even more blessed that we get to do it with every single one of you.
Over the years, we have always been hands on with our fans! Now Kickstarter allows us to directly connect with you. Send us Kickstarter messages, write comments, check out our updates. It will be fun ![:)](http://www.atrl.net/forums/images/smilies/images/smilies/smile.gif)
We also want you to ROCK THE VOTE. We will send ALL BACKERS who pledge $5 or MORE a list of tracks we want to remix. YOU will vote on your favorite, and the track with the most votes will be included on the album!!
Every penny we raise during this campaign will go towards MAKING this final album together with you! The initial goal of $150,000 will go towards a writing session in the studio with a producer and engineer. The money beyond that will go to booking music producers, writing sessions, mixing sessions, recording sessions, and SO much more.
We want to work with the best in the business, so the more we raise means access to the best.
Now for the REWARDS!
Of course, y’all should only get the best rewards in exchange for your amazing donations. Be sure to check them out to your right!
We are so grateful for your continued support. We cannot wait to make TLC history with all of you!
LOVE and KISSES and HUGS,
T-Boz and Chilli
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The girls have raised $10,000 of their $150,000 goal so far. This is actually much better than I thought it would be.
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Member Since: 6/25/2012
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If they want my coins, they better come wash my car or something. I ain't paying $5 for a "bonus" track.
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Member Since: 9/1/2013
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Originally posted by rihannasbe$tfrnd
If they want my coins, they better come wash my car or something. I ain't paying $5 for a "bonus" track.
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I'm pretty sure they'd be down with a car wash. Maybe before the awkward slumber party package?
I've been a fan of TLC since I was a tiny gay. I used to buy WORD UP! magazine and put posters of TLC on my wall and perform "Silly Ho" in my room, acting like I was T-Boz. I'm down to give a little $$ but the "rewards" for some of these are just silly: go to the movies, slumber party, Chili workout, dance school, the voicemail, and phone call? Prizes like these are cool for tween stans of current artists, but TLC's core base is 20-30 something.
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Member Since: 1/2/2014
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So they want fans to help pay for recording of their album then sell it back to the same people who helped pay to create it? Mess. I love TLC and I'll support the finished product, but I'm not donating to this.
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Member Since: 8/12/2007
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222
backers
$17,319
pledged of $150,000 goal
30
Get ya munee!
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Member Since: 3/20/2011
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The first two rewards are horrible.
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Pledge $10 or more
TLC INSPO.
You’ll get a PDF of a handwritten list of our top 15 favorite songs of all time. Maybe our list will offer you some inspo!
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KICKSTARTER EXCLUSIVE REMIX.
You will get to vote for which TLC track you want REMIXED for the final album!!!
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and DEATH at Chilli selling out one of her movie dates but no one being here for T-Boz. ![ahh](images/smilies/images/smilies/ahh.gif)
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Member Since: 9/7/2012
Posts: 548
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Originally posted by IMPACTNET.
So they want fans to help pay for recording of their album then sell it back to the same people who helped pay to create it? Mess. I love TLC and I'll support the finished product, but I'm not donating to this.
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What's so wrong with this? It's not like it's any different from an pre-order.
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Member Since: 3/3/2014
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Originally posted by Reza
![Bibliotheque](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/korn0818/ATRL_Smilies_All/atrlers/biblio_zps23dff242.gif) Nobody was talking about DC.
Anyway, Fanmail was really their last album. Without Left Eye it really wouldn't work.
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Originally posted by NLX
& who the hell asked?
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Member Since: 4/30/2011
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Originally posted by Attitude
and DEATH at Chilli selling out one of her movie dates but no one being here for T-Boz. ![ahh](images/smilies/images/smilies/ahh.gif)
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Originally posted by Simplyvirtue
lmao DC would NEVAAAAA
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Originally posted by Grumpy Gills
I feel like TLC has been broke their entire career.
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They have been ![toofunny2](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/korn0818/ATRL_Smilies_All/faces/toofunny2_zpsb54f2d2d.gif)
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Member Since: 9/10/2006
Posts: 19,790
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433
backers
$50,158
pledged of $150,000 goal
30
days to go
And a full day hasn't even passed yet, that's not bad at all. If they can reach 100k by Friday, passing 150k should come before the end of the thirty days easily.
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Member Since: 3/27/2009
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Wait, they're unsigned?
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It’s not that the ladies are pressed for cash. They want their supporters to be a bigger part of their fifth release. “This is about our fans getting involved,” Chilli explained in a statement.
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Take a minute girl, come sit down and tell us what's been happening.
In your face, I can see the pain. Don't you try to convince us that your happy.
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Member Since: 4/7/2009
Posts: 34,961
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Originally posted by Right Now
433
backers
$50,158
pledged of $150,000 goal
30
days to go
And a full day hasn't even passed yet, that's not bad at all. If they can reach 100k by Friday, passing 150k should come before the end of the thirty days easily.
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wait now.
I feel like this may start a trend.
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Originally posted by Giselle
Lil Mama did better than T-Boz.
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MTE.
T-boz was lip syncing and all and still did worse than her. Lil Mama went hard with the dancing and I wished they toured together.
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Originally posted by Attitude
Are you recording in a closet and uploading them to Myspace like Azealia Banks?
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No lol a proper studio.
The guy just graduated music engineering and is desperate to get some stuff done to add to his resume / catalog for reference to futur clients.
I'm sure there are a ton of producers that are great who would love to work with TLC
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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1 - Something tells me ya'll would need Kickstarter to record a single song, so what's the problem about women whose prime was a long time ago?
2 - I know, all this casual "shady" fashion, but, c'mon, some basics laughing at other guls for "being poor" and "showing that by openly asking for funding their album", "not bowing out with class" is neither slightly funny, nor original...
3 - To the topic. Whatever they find useful
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