TLC slam Rihanna!

 

One of the biggest girl groups of the 90s TLC have slammed popstar Rihanna for using her body and sex to sell records.

Appearing on Channel 7's Sunrise on Friday morning ahead of their sold out Sydney gig, Tionne 'T-Boz' Watkins, 44, and Rozonda 'Chilli' Thomas, 43, had a clear message for the 26-year-old Rude Boy singer.

'Every time I see you you don't have to be naked,' T-Boz said.

 'It's easy to sell sex,' the duo, who have five Grammy and MTV awards under their belts, said.

'It's hard for us to say anything because any time we do, they say, 'Oh TLC must be jealous', but I call a spade a spade,' T-Boz added.

'We became the biggest girl selling group of all time with our clothes on and that says a lot,' Chilli chimed in.

'We could go around too with booby cakes [breasts] out all day long,' she said referring to Rihanna's choice of see-through dress for Monday's Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards.

 

She left virtual nothing to the imagination showing off her bare breasts and just a nude thong to hide the rest of her modesty in the risqué gown created by designer Adam Selman.

The all girl group have had their fair share of hardships though their years in the entertainment business.

In 2002,  the most flamboyant and outspoken member of the multiplatinum trio Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes was killed in a car crash.

'The three of us had chemistry, now it's two and we have crazy chemistry. The fans also keep us going because they love us so much,' the singers added.

Despite officially calling it quits in 2002 following her tragic death, T-Boz and Chilli Thomas reformed for a series of concerts in 2009 which marked the 20th anniversary of their hit single Waterfalls.

Now they are doing a national tour of Australia and are not modest about their successes to date.

'TLC is my favourite girl group, even though I'm in the group. I love our group. I love what we stand for,' Chilli said giving a dig to current girl groups.

'The blessing out of all of this is that we are able to sustain and that's the hard thing to do in this business is to have longevity,' she added. 'It's almost 22 years that we've been in the business'.