I'm Good at Being Bad

Infobox Single
Name = I'm Good at Being Bad


Artist = TLC
from Album = Fanmail
B-side =
Released = Early 1999
Format = Promo CD single, Promo vinyl
Recorded = 1998
Genre = R&B
Length = 4:37 (explicit version)
5:25 (clean version)
5:39 (original explicit version)
Label = LaFace
Writer = Be, James Harris, Terry Lewis, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, Marshall Lorenzo Martin, Giorgio Moroder, Tony Tolbert, and Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins
Producer = Kevin "She'kspere" Briggs
Last single = "No Scrubs"
(1999)
This single = "I'm Good at Being Bad"
(1999; cancelled)
Next single = "Unpretty"
(1999)
Misc = Extra track listing
Album = FanMail
Type = studio
prev_track = "No Scrubs"
prev_no = 5
this_track = "I'm Good at Being Bad"
track_no = 6
next_track = "If They Knew"
next_no = 7

"I'm Good at Being Bad" is a song recorded by R&B girl group TLC for their third album, "Fanmail." The track was inspired by the song, "What About," a song featured on Janet Jackson's controversial 1997 album, "The Velvet Rope". The song was released unofficially as the second overall single from the album around the time "No Scrubs" was sent to radio. Due to its strong unofficial success in on American urban radio, "I'm Good at Being Bad" was scheduled to be released as the second single from "Fanmail," but was replaced by "Unpretty" because the girls (most notably Left Eye) felt that the songs lyrics were too explicit and unsuitable for their younger audience. Despite not ever receiving an official airplay or commercial release, the song peaked within the top 40 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart. Left Eye's rap section of the song was included in the "Unpretty" music video.

Tracklisting

US CD Promo
# "I'm Good at Being Bad" (Radio Mix with Rap)
# "I'm Good at Being Bad" (Radio Mix without Rap)
# "I'm Good at Being Bad" (Instrumental)
# "I'm Good at Being Bad" (Call Out Research Hook)

US 12" Vinyl Promo
(LFDP-4390; Released: 1999)

"Side A"
# "I'm Good at Being Bad" (Dirty Version) - 4:39
# "I'm Good at Being Bad" (Clean Version) - 4:42
# "I'm Good at Being Bad" (Instrumental) - 4:35"Side B"
# "I'm Good at Being Bad" (Dirty Version) - 4:39
# "I'm Good at Being Bad" (Clean Version) - 4:42
# "I'm Good at Being Bad" (Instrumental) - 4:35

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