What About Your Friends

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"What About Your Friends"
File:TLC - What About Your Friends cover.png
Single by TLC
from the album Ooooooohhh... On the TLC Tip
ReleasedAugust 21, 1992 (1992-08-21)
Genre
Length
  • 4:55 (album version)
  • 4:00 (radio edit without rap)
  • 4:06 (radio edit with rap)
Label
Songwriters
ProducerDallas Austin
TLC singles chronology
"Baby-Baby-Baby"
(1992) 		"What About Your Friends"
(1992) 		"Hat 2 da Back"
(1992)
Music video
"What About Your Friends" on YouTube

"What About Your Friends" is a song by American group TLC, released as the third single from their debut album, Ooooooohhh... On the TLC Tip (1992). It was released on August 21, 1992, and reached number seven on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the group's third consecutive top-10 single. A remix to the song, titled "What About Your Friends (Extended Mix)", includes the first ever appearance by the Atlanta hip-hop duo Outkast.

Composition

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"What About Your Friends" was written by Dallas Austin and TLC member Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes,[2] and features lead vocals by T-Boz and Chilli. The song samples "Blues & Pants" by James Brown.

Critical reception

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Daryl McIntosh from Albumism noted that "What About Your Friends" "calls into question the topic of loyalty and true friendship, making you evaluate the character of those within your inner circle."[3]

Music video

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The main performance scenes of the music video for "What About Your Friends" was directed by Lionel C. Martin, and features the girls walking in an alley surrounded by backup dancers, underneath a bridge, on an outside staircase, on an apartment roof, in a slushie bar and wearing graffiti clothes in front of a graffiti-covered wall. Two versions of the video were made: one focuses on more of the performance shots of the girls and scenes of them infiltrating a stylish fashion show, while the other features scenes of a party in a big park where the girls are being very happy, dancing and having fun with their friends and some family members; including a scene of them reprising their roles as hillbillies from the "Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg" video at the end. Jermaine Dupri makes a cameo appearance.

Commercial performance

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The song reached number seven on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the group's third consecutive top ten single,[4] and reached No. 2 on the Hot R&B Singles chart, behind "Games" by Chuckii Booker. The single was certified gold by the RIAA.[5] In the United Kingdom, "What About Your Friends" peaked at No. 59.[6]

Charts

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Certifications

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Region Certification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA)[25] Gold 500,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Release history

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Region Date Format(s) Label(s) Ref.
United States August 21, 1992
  • 12-inch vinyl
  • CD
  • cassette
 LaFace [25]
United Kingdom October 12, 1992
  • 7-inch vinyl
  • 12-inch vinyl
  • CD
  • cassette
[26]
Australia November 16, 1992
  • CD
  • cassette
 LaFace [27]
Japan November 21, 1992 Mini-CD
  • LaFace
  • Arista
 [28]
Australia December 7, 1992 12-inch vinyl LaFace [29]

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