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What About Your Friends

"What About Your Friends"
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Single by TLC
from the album Ooooooohhh... On the TLC Tip
Released August 28, 1992
Format
Recorded Summer 1991
Genre New jack swing
Length 4:00 (radio edit without rap)
4:06 (radio edit with rap)
4:55 (album version)
Label
Writer(s)
Producer(s) Austin
TLC singles chronology
"Baby-Baby-Baby"
(1992)
"What About Your Friends"
(1992)
"Hat 2 da Back"
(1992)

"What About Your Friends" is TLC's third single from their debut album, Ooooooohhh... On the TLC Tip. It reached #7 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the group's third consecutive top-ten single. The single was released in August 28, 1992.

"What About Your Friends" was written by Dallas Austin and TLC member Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, and features lead vocals by T-Boz.

The main performance scenes of the video are the girls walking in an alley surrounded by backup dancers, underneath a bridge, on an outside staircase, on an apartment roof, in a slushie bar and wearing graffiti clothes in front of a graffiti-covered wall. Two versions of the video were made: one focuses on more of the performance shots of the girls and scenes of them infiltrating a stylish fashion show, while the other features scenes of a party in a big park where the girls are being very happy, dancing and having fun with their friends and some family members; including a scene of them reprising their roles as hillbillies from the "Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg" video at the end. Jermaine Dupri makes a cameo appearance.

The song reached No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the group's third consecutive top ten single, and reached No. 2 on the Hot R&B Singles chart. The single was certified gold by the RIAA. In the United Kingdom, "What About Your Friends" peaked at No. 59.


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