'But I can tell you, she was definitely focused,' Thomas recalls, with a laugh. The judge allowed her out on day release to work on 'CrazySexењњool.' This was in part because they realized there was no real need to be there when it wasn't time to actually record their vocals and in part because Lopes was in court-mandated rehab after burning down her boyfriend, (thenВ Atlanta Falcons wide receiver)В Andre Rison's house. They didn't spend as much time in the studio together making 'CrazySexењњool,' which 'kind of cut down on a lot of horrible shenanigans that can happen,' Thomas says. MORE THINGS TO DO: For restaurant reviews, travel tips, concert picks and more, subscribe to. We're up there messing up studios, not even thinkingВ hey, we can get kicked out and get charged for this. 'It was so bad because that was our first album,' Thomas says. The sessions weren't nearly as crazy as the ones for their first album, during which they almost got tossed out of Doppler Studios in Atlanta for flooding the hallways with water guns and other wild shenanigans. 'Everyone we worked withВ - Dallas Austin and Jermaine Dupri, even when we did the interludes with PuffyВ - they knew the direction.' She remembers tellingВ LA Reid and Kenneth 'Babyface' Edmonds, the producers who ranВ LaFace Records, the name of the album and how that title would determine the direction of the music. To Thomas, the success of 'CrazySexењњool' all started with the title. Cole, Jonas Brothers, Maroon 5, Chris Stapleton and more It was all about the title, 'CrazySexењњool'

'So we just blocked all of that out and did our thing.'Д¬oncerts playing Phoenix in October: TLC, Chaka Khan, J. 'If you have that kind of stuff in your head, you can go in and not make great music,' ThomasВ says. They just went in and focused on the music. But Thomas and her bandmates didn't get caught up in proving anything to anyone. And they were well aware that people had been saying their success was just a fluke. TheyВ were told a sophomore album is the hardest one to make. On the TLC Tip' that had sent their first three singles to the Top 10 on the Hot 100. Thomas, Watkins and Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes were coming off a multi-platinum debut titled 'Ooooooohhh. Rozonda 'Chilli' Thomas is on the road withВ Tionne 'T-Boz' Watkins celebrating 'CrazySexењњool,' the album that established TLC as more than just a fadВ on theВ way to becoming the biggest-selling girl-group album in U.S.

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