Usher made an appearance on MTV's TRL today to debut his new video Love In This Club from his upcoming album Here I Stand which hits stores on May 27th. I don't think I need to explain the 'Oh, my God!!! I can't breeve cause I can't believe Usher is right here in my face in broad daylight....and in real life! OMG!' Girl, please. I didn't know fans still behaved this way over their favorite celebs. That is so 8701...which is also the last time I bought an Usher record.
And while Usher was up north promoting his new music, the singer's ex-girlfriend, Rozonda 'Chilli' Thomas along with her TLC band mate Tionne 'T-Boz' Watkins were down south in the ATL co-hosting and co-clowning [on] Ryan Cameron's Afternoon Show on V-103. Both ladies were there to promote their new projects. Thomas had originally debuted her new song
Dumb, Dumb, Dumb last Friday (April 4th) on Cameron's show. However, she played it again today. To listen to Chilli's
Dumb, Dumb, Dumb, click
HERE Of the song, Chilli says, 'The record is bananas! What girl can not relate to this? What girl can not relate to being in a relationship...where you were like the perfect person in the whole, wide, world...and you know, he messed up? But honestly, I don't want to make it like a male-bashing record because there are a lot of good guys out there who have been in some relationships with some really 'dumb, dumb, dumb' girls.' T-Boz, who admitted to dating more than one 'stanka-dank-danks' in her day, chimed in, 'Men, we're here for you! We understand!' Fortunately, T-Boz has been dating NFL player Takeo Spikes for over three years. As for the baby-haired Southern Belle, well, she let it be known that she is still single. Bless her heart. Chilli also received a called-in shout-out from super-producer Dallas Austin with whom she shares a ten-year-old son named Tron. Austin gave much props Thomas telling the song was, 'crazy!' To which Chilli responded, 'Thank you, that means a lot coming from my baby's daddy!'
As for my two cents on Chilli's new song? Excluding any previous TLC tracks, I've heard better from her. I liked the song...but only a little bit. Like her ex's new joint, the song just sounded like a track from one of their yesteryear days, respectively. Too bad we'll never hear a duet from the two because although they're no longer together romantically, their voices together on one record would make for a good track. Anyhoo, Chilli's song is written by Atlanta songwriter, Cristyle 'The Ink' Johnson. Cristyle also written for Mariah Carey (
Touch My Body), Tiffany Evans (
I'm Grown), Teyana Taylor (
Google Me) and Janet Jackson (
The 1, What's Ur Name?, So Much Betta).
BELOW, CHECK OUT PICS OF THE LADIES OF TLC IN THE STUDIOAFTER THE JUMP, FIND OUT WHAT NEW CHILDREN'S CHARITY PROJECT T-BOZ IS LENDING A HAND IN + NEWS FROM MORE OF THEIR UPCOMING PROJECTS AS WELL AS MORE DETAILS FROM T&C's CO-HOSTING GIG.
Now, back to Tionne. The singer in conjunction with her clothing store 'Chase's Closet' is promoting the Purple Ribbons Can Fly Project. This project gives terminally ill children a chance to record a song with a recording artist (T-Boz records her song on April 19th) which will be played on Continental Airlines (also a supporter of this project) during their worldwide air flights. T-Boz urged listeners to support the terminally ill children 'so we can hear their voices across the world, because some of them won't make it.' Check out
Chase's Closet for more details.
As for any projects the girls are working on, T-Boz, who made no mention of Blaque's new reality show,
Blaque in the House which is slated to debut this summer, says she is currently working on her solo project; as is Chilli. Chilli also plugged her 'Bags by Chilli' accessory line
Bags by Chilli. The ladies also said they're working on projects together....although they didn't say what those projects are.
READ MORE AFTER THE JUMP!