So I have to separate the two, know that there is a difference between Left Eye and Lisa.” It’s not like I can be in Kroger’s and get into an argument with my man and not be on the news. I have to act a certain way, according to what people expect. ![]() I try to go out and be Lisa-do what Lisa would have done three, four years ago-and it just don’t work. “The hardest thing about being in TLC,” she said to Vibe Magazine‘s Joan Morgan in 1994, “is accepting the fact that I am Left Eye. She admitted to changing upon realizing the public’s sky-scraping expectations of her. Lisa was barely out of her teen years when Ooooooohhh… On the TLC Tipdebuted and she was thrust into superstardom. She was just a supremely talented young Black woman who was trying to figure it all out. What exactly was she rebelling against, though? The decrepit parameters of respectable Black womanhood? The music industry that siphons from its most talented while disregarding their very valid human emotions? The men in her life that disrespected her, be it mentally, physically or financially? The more you think about Lisa, you may come to the conclusion that she wasn’t crazy, even when she gave in and dubbed herself as such. “Rebellious” was also used to describe her, by media and collaborators alike. ![]() She was billed the “crazy” one by the time the follow up to TLC’s platinum-selling first album was coming to form. Her (quelled) spars with her group members, occupation with spirituality, and allegedly abusive relationship with Andre Rison all come to mind. Lisa’s life was front-facing at a time when it was no longer becoming the industry standard to keep your personality, thoughts and trials close to the chest.
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