Destiny's Child - Bills Bills Bills

Description
"Bills, Bills, Bills" was the first single from Destiny's Child's second album The Writing's on the Wall. It was their first song that peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It won a BMI Pop award for being the most played song. Before "Bills, Bills, Bills", the only top ten single the group had achieved was "No, No, No Pt. 2". Despite the success of the single, many of the listeners questioned the topic - people viewed the lyrics as male bashing[citation needed]; in the song men are referred to as "triflin'" and "good for nothin'". However, Destiny's Child quickly quashed these rumors and expressed that their lyrics were meant to be empowering for women[citation needed].

"Bills, Bills, Bills" debuted at #84 on the Hot 100 and climbed to #1 five weeks later, where it remained for a week and spent a total of twenty weeks on the chart.

"Bills, Bills, Bills" also reached number one on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks for nine consecutive weeks making it one of the longest running number one singles ever on this chart and the most weeks at the summit in 1999. It was also the ninth best-selling single of the year in the U.S.

In the UK "Bills, Bills, Bills" peaked at number six and went onto sell over 165,000 copies.

The music video for "Bills, Bills, Bills" (directed by Darren Grant) was shot in a beauty salon, a tribute to Tina Knowles, group member Beyoncé Knowles' mother. Another interesting fact was that it marked the first of three videos in which Farrah Franklin was part of (although she played a minor role of a salon client).

"Bills, Bills, Bills" was written by the same songwriter as TLC's hit "No Scrubs", Kandi Burruss. hip hop group Sporty Thievz famously recorded a rebuttal to this TLC hit entitled "No Pigeons" and would later go on to record a rebuttal to "Bills Bills Bills", entitled "No Billz (Why, Why, Why)". Not only that, Sporty Thievz along with a female rapper known as Jazz were featured on the main remix of Bills, Bills, Bills produced by the Trackmasters.

Lyrics
At first we started out real cool,(cool)
Taking me places i ain'tnever been
But now your getting comfortable
Ain't doing those things that you did no more
Your slowly makin me pay for things
Your money should be handling

And now you ask to use my car (car)
Drive it all day and don't fill up the tank
And you have the audacity
To even come and step to me
And ask to hold some money from me
Until you get your check next week
(bridge)
You triflin',good for nothing type of brother
Silly me,why haven't I found another
A baller, when times get hard he's the one to help me out
insted of, a scrub like you who don't know what a man's about

(chorus2x)
can
you pay my bills
can you pay my telephone bills
can you pay my automo'bills
then maybe we can chill
I don't think you do
so you and me are through

now you been maxing out my card(card)
give me bad credit,buying gifts with my own ends
haven't paid the first bill
but you steady heading to the mall
going on shopping sprees
peprpetrating to your friends that you be ballin'

and then you use my cell phone(phone)
callin who ever that you think at home
and when the bill comes all of a sudden you be acting dumb
don't know where none of these calls come from
when your mamma's numbers here more than once