Amazon.co.uk Review
The jumpy, Timbaland-esque beats that kickstart the title track of
Fanmail, TLC's long-awaited follow-up to 1994's zillion-selling
CrazySexyCool, are a lot more impressively modern than the "computerised" voices that introduce several cuts. Most of the album's production is similarly up to date, displaying the trio's smouldering style to good effect. A few of these songs ("Silly Ho," "No Scrubs," "Unpretty") verge on the anthemic, while Babyface-helmed ballads such as "I Miss You So Much" and "Dear Lie" feel like they're running on automatic pilot. For the most part, though,
Fanmail earns its status as a multi-platinum sure thing.
--Rickey Wright
CD Description
The bad girls of R&B are back at it again and after a long layoff. Chili, Left Eye, and T-Boz, collectively known as TLC prove that nothing's gonna change their world. With classic TLC demeanor on tracks like "No Scrubs" (sure to get even the most motion-challenged dancer to bust a move), "I'm GoodAt Being Bad", (TLC at its best) "Silly Ho" and "If They Knew", TLC reminds us why being "bad" is sometimes so attractive. But with all the bad-girl image that TLC works so hard to project, they show their versatility on tracks like "I Miss You So Much" and "Dear Lie". These two cuts show some sentimentality, spotlighting a different side of the TLC their fans have come to know and love.