Please remember TLC's "Unpretty"

"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.