Waterfalls

Waterfalls by TLC: the 1994 hit that almost got rewritten into a safer song.

The label wanted the drug-dealing and HIV verses softened. TLC pushed back, kept the warning explicit, then poured the video budget into underwater effects that made it one of the priciest clips of the decade.

Did you know the chorus is actually a response to those two verses, not a stand-alone love line?