3D (TLC album)
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3D (TLC album)
3D is the fourth studio album by American girl group TLC. It was released by Arista Records on October 10, 2002 in Europe, and on November 12, 2002, in the United States, seven months after the death of band member Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes. Recorded between May 2001 and July 2002, much of the album was finalized after Lopes's passing, with her unreleased material that she had recorded for her solo albums Supernova and N.I.N.A being reworked into new songs. Remaining group members Rozonda Thomas and Tionne Watkinsconsulted Rodney Jerkins, The Neptunes, Raphael Saadiq, Missy Elliott and Timbaland to work with them on 3D.-Wikipedia
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BBC Review
The biggest girl group in the world return with the follow up to their 1999, nine million copy selling Fanmail and it's hot... so hot.
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AllMusic
Perhaps 3D doesn't blaze trails like their other albums, but it never plays it safe and it always satisfies, and it's one of the best modern soul albums of 2002.
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Slant Magazine
November 11, 2002. While TLC were once innovators, they’re mere followers on their fourth (and final) album. Aside from the glistening alterna-pop of the life-affirming “Turntable” and the poignant “Damaged,” most of 3D, though upbeat and catchy, is ultimately two-dimensional.
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Wayne's World
The album is classic and timeless. It's them passing the torch to someone else, in this case maybe to Destiny's Child, who two years later took the world by storm with their "Destiny Fulfilled". They went out in style and the best way they knew how, on top!
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Uncut
In light of the recent death of Left-Eye in a car crash, one can understand how difficult it must have been for the rest of TLC, . . . However heartfelt ballads such as “Turntable” might be, they don’t hide the gaping hole of mischief which Left-Eye filled.
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The Guardian
November 7, 2002. 3D makes you realise that TLC, like most great bands, have always been more than the sum of their parts.
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Entertainment
November 11, 2002. . . . ”3D” feels a little incomplete, like much of their work. A contradiction always existed around TLC — namely, that their processed, homogenized records never matched the spunky personas they exhibited off stage and in print.
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Mitch Schneider Organization
November 21, 2002. The 3D album features all the trademark TLC forthrightness they captured on their 1993 debut album Ooooh…On The TLC Tip, 1994’s CrazySexyCool and 1999’s FanMail.
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Entertainment.ie
With so much half-written material lying around, 3D was an inevitable release - and while it may be a bit frayed around the ages, it's a largely satisfying footnote to a band that was always more than the sum of its parts.
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Wilson & Alroy's Record Reviews
The old producers are back with a couple of new ones - Eddie Hustle contributed two of the best tracks, "Good Love" and the single "Girl Talk" - but the innovative spark is gone.
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