{"id":481301,"date":"2019-01-24T14:04:54","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T21:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=784068"},"modified":"2019-01-24T14:04:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T21:04:54","slug":"tlcs-chilli-on-weezers-surprise-no-scrubs-cover-clearly-theyre-not-scrubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/tlcs-chilli-on-weezers-surprise-no-scrubs-cover-clearly-theyre-not-scrubs\/","title":{"rendered":"TLC\u2019s Chilli on Weezer\u2019s Surprise \u2018No Scrubs\u2019 Cover: \u2018Clearly, They\u2019re Not Scrubs\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/chili-tlc-weezer-no-scrubs.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p>On Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/weezer\/\" id=\"auto-tag_weezer\" data-tag=\"weezer\">Weezer<\/a> followed up the surprising success of their 2018 cover of Toto\u2019s persistent hit \u201cAfrica\u201d with\u00a0<em>The Teal Album<\/em>, a collection of\u00a010 faithful covers by the rock band ranging from Black Sabbath (\u201cParanoid\u201d) to Michael Jackson (\u201cBillie Jean\u201d). The most surprising \u2014 and immediate fan favorite \u2014 has been the group\u2019s take on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/tlc\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tlc\" data-tag=\"tlc\">TLC<\/a>\u2019s 1999 megahit \u201cNo Scrubs.\u201d Speaking to <em>Rolling Stone,<\/em> TLC\u2019s Rozanda \u201cChilli\u201d Thomas co-signed the ebullient cover.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I heard it, I loved it! They did a great job,\u201d Chilli tells <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>. She hadn\u2019t heard about Weezer\u2019s plans to cover the track until the album dropped and has witnessed a \u201cflood\u201d of opinions from her trio\u2019s fans. \u201cI hope we can perform it together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prior to hearing the fuzzy, alt-rock take on the\u00a0<em>Fanmail<\/em> single, Chilli has not exactly followed Weezer. She was as surprised as anyone by the group\u2019s choice to tackle the R&amp;B track amidst mostly classic rock reinterpretations.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/55UtG-1os_s?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m definitely familiar with the group,\u201d she adds, though she laughs off the possibility of TLC ever swapping positions with Weezer and covering one of their songs.\u00a0\u201cI totally get why any girl would do it, but when guys do it I go, \u2018Clearly, they\u2019re not scrubs.\u2019 If they were scrubs, they wouldn\u2019t sing the song with this type of confidence,\u201d she adds. It reflects a similar sentiment to singer Rivers Cuomo\u2019s own explanation for how the band chose to approach the song in the album breakdown on Apple Music.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just thought it was one of those songs that\u2019s freakishly popular,\u201d he said. \u201cI was trying to decide which gender perspective to sing it from, then I saw this tweet that said, \u2018If you\u2019re a guy covering a song by a girl, you gotta keep the pronouns. For those three minutes, you\u2019re gay.\u2019 So I was like, \u2018Cool, let\u2019s try this.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also expressed admiration for the group\u2019s tenacity when it came to singing a Jackson hit like \u201cBillie Jean\u201d for the album. \u201cYou gotta be pretty brave to do any of his songs, no matter who you are,\u201d she says, jokingly referring to the late pop star as \u201cthe only husband I\u2019ve ever had.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Weezer\u2019s cover, Chilli has appreciated Bette Midler\u2019s \u201cWaterfalls\u201d as well as any time Hanson has tackled the girl group\u2019s discography. She\u2019s honored that new life continues to be breathed into all of their music.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels really good because when you\u2019re in the studio working, you hope and pray that you make songs that have longevity. And we have, so that\u2019s a blessing. I\u2019m telling you, I wanna reach out to [Weezer] and try to make this performance happen!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FrLequ6dUdM?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/tlc-no-scrubs-cover-weezer-chilli-interview-784068\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, Weezer followed up the surprising success of their 2018 cover of Toto\u2019s persistent hit \u201cAfrica\u201d with\u00a0The Teal Album, a collection of\u00a010 faithful covers by the rock band ranging from Black Sabbath (\u201cParanoid\u201d) to Michael Jackson (\u201cBillie Jean\u201d). The most surprising \u2014 and immediate fan favorite \u2014 has been the group\u2019s take on TLC\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-481301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 01:45:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}