This TLC comeback makes less and less sense. They have every right to cash in on the past—1999's FanMail alone is worthy of a second victory lap—but instead, Tionne Watkins and Rozonda Thomas are crowdfunding their new album and asking fans to suggest the title, something that a cynical person might point to as an allegory for the duo's now-faded relevance. And yet here we are, with their first new single "Way Back," a Snoop Dogg-featuring slow jam. It's a sonic nod to their own history as much as it is a song about history and relationships; it's the clearest proof that what TLC were doing was always sort of timeless, we just all liked it in the 90s.Listen to the track below.Follow Noisey on Twitter.
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