- Dear Lie
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"Dear Lie" Single by TLC from the album FanMail Released November 30, 1999 Format CD single Recorded 1998 Genre R&B Length 5:10 (album version)
3:53 (radio version)
4:36 (video version)Label LaFace Writer(s) Babyface,
Tionne WatkinsProducer Babyface TLC singles chronology "Unpretty"
(1999)"Dear Lie"
(1999)"Girl Talk"
(2002)FanMail track listing "Come on Down"
(12)"Dear Lie"
(13)"Communicate - Interlude"
(14)"Dear Lie" is a R&B ballad written by Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds and Tionne Watkins for TLC's third studio album FanMail (1999). It was produced by Babyface and released as the album's third single on November 30, 1999. Though the song managed to enter the top 40 in the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland and the UK, where it spent five non-consecutive weeks inside the top forty, longer than some of the band's highest charting singles there, it was widely considered a minor success compared to previous hits "No Scrubs" and "Unpretty", peaking at number 51 on the Billboard Hot 100. A music video was filmed but not aired in the U.S., it was only shown in Europe. "Dear Lie" was not featured on TLC's greatest hits albums Now and Forever: The Hits (2003) or Crazy Sexy Hits: The Very Best of TLC (2007).
Music video
Although not internationally released, a video for "Dear Lie" was shot and was the last TLC video with all three members alive. Despite the group not promoting the single very much, it received a lot of airplay in Europe, giving the group a minor hit. "Dear Lie" would be their second to last music video released with Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes still alive before the music video "What It Aint" by Goodie Mob featuring them was released six months later.
The video features solo parts of both Chilli and T-Boz in an apartment, and "performance" shots in a hallway during the chorus.
The video is known for its very last scene, where Lopes is shown running down the hall, knocking at the doors before running out of the frame.
Formats and tracklisting
These are the formats and track listings of major single-releases of "Dear Lie".
- "Dear Lie" (Radio Edit) - 3:52
- "Dear Lie" (Album Version) - 5:12
- "Unpretty" (MJ Cole Mix Vox Up) - 4:48
- "Sleigh Ride" - 3:51
UK CD Single 1
- "Dear Lie" (Radio Edit) - 3:53
- "Dear Lie" (Album Version) - 5:12
- "Sleigh Ride" - 3:51
UK CD Single 2
- "Dear Lie" (Radio Edit) - 3:53
- "Sleigh Ride" - 3:51
Versions
- Dirty Album Version - 5:11
^Used on the album FanMail and the CD Single.
- Clean Album Version - 5:11
^Used on the edited version of FanMail.
- Radio Edit - 3:53
^Sent to mainstream radio, also on the CD Single.
- Video Version - 4:36
^Used in the video and on the Totally Hits 2 CD.
Charts
Chart (1999) Peak
PositionAustralia ARIA Singles Chart 35 Dutch Singles Chart 26 French Singles Chart 40 German Singles Chart 37 Irish Singles Chart 12 New Zealand RIANZ Chart 10 Swedish Singles Chart 24 Swiss Singles Chart 29 UK Singles Chart 31 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 51 U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles 70 U.S. 4 TLC Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins · Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas
Lisa "Left-Eye" LopesStudio albums Other albums Now and Forever: The Hits · Crazy Sexy Hits: The Very Best of TLC · We Love TLC · TLC Legacy: Volume One · TLC Legacy: Volume TwoSingles "Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg" · "Baby-Baby-Baby" · "What About Your Friends" · "Hat 2 da Back" · "Get It Up" · "Creep" · "Red Light Special" · "Waterfalls" · "Diggin' on You" · "Silly Ho" · "No Scrubs" · "I'm Good at Being Bad" · "Unpretty" · "My Life" · "Dear Lie" · "I Need That" · "Girl Talk" · "Hands Up" · "Damaged" · "Turntable" · "Come Get Some" · "I Bet"Related articles Discography · FanMail Tour · R U the Girl · The Last Days of Left Eye · Now and Forever: The Video Hits · What Chilli Wants · Dallas Austin · LaFace Records · Eye Legacy · The Celebrity Apprentice 2Book ·
Category
Categories:- 1999 singles
- TLC (band) songs
- Music videos directed by Bille Woodruff
- Songs written by Babyface (musician)
- Songs written by Tionne Watkins
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