"Unpretty" was the Billboard Hot 100 number one single in September 1999, preceded by Enrique's "Bailamos" and followed by Mariah's "Heartbreaker." As we can see, this was a great time for music. It was TLC's last number one single and the last video featuring all three members of the group. I listened to this song today for the first time in like eight years. I loved it then and I love it still. So empowering. You can buy all the makeup that MAC can make. I really do like what's going on here, and I remember thinking, yeah, why should I make myself think I'm not good enough? And then I remembered I was in high school.
On another TLC related note, one of my first memories of my new school when I moved in sixth grade was a classmate who loved TLC so much that she even had the T-Boz haircut. That girl really knew what it meant to combat unprettiness. We weren't really friends.
