SWV’s Coko Says She Never Wanted to Record Smash Hit ‘Weak,’ Explains Why She Hid In the Bathroom to Avoid Recording It

SWV (Sister With Voices) has offered greater than 30 million information all through their profession, which spans three a long time. One of many hits that helped launch them to stardom with their debut album, “It’s About Time,” is “Weak.” The file has remained a fan favourite for many years, however its existence nearly didn’t occur.

Group members Tamara “Taj” Johnson-George and Cheryl “Coko” Clemons — the third member is Leanne “LeeLee” Lyons — are the most recent company to look on the “We Sound Loopy” podcast, hosted by music executives Phil Thornton and Tamone Bacon and Grammy Award-winning songwriters Claude Kelly and Chuck Concord.

“Each time you file one thing, you suppose it’s nice, proper?” started Taj, whereas explaining the trio’s notion of their 1992 album’s tracklist, which boasts different profitable singles comparable to “I’m So Into You” and “Proper Right here.” 

Concord pressed on, asking, “It wasn’t one thing a little bit particular about ‘Weak’?” Because it pertains to that particular monitor, not everybody was on board with the imaginative and prescient. Coko instantly responded, “Oh no. I hated ‘Weak.’ ” Taj quipped, “I really like that music. She didn’t prefer it.”

“I didn’t get it. I didn’t perceive it. I didn’t need to perceive it. I didn’t need to hear it. I didn’t need to sing it,” added Coko, the lead vocalist. “That music, they might have flushed it in the bathroom.”

“Might you think about? What in the event that they’d listened to her?” requested Taj earlier than her longtime bandmate went on to reveal extra of her preliminary disdain for the music.

Coko revealed that her efforts to not file the monitor included: “[I] locked myself within the rest room. They needed to name my mama to get me out. ‘Weak’ was not it for me … I feel at that younger age, I simply actually didn’t perceive it. I didn’t get it, the way in which he needed me to method the music. I used to be a church lady.”

Fan reactions to the revelation embrace:

“Glad they didn’t hearken to you…trigger BAYBEEEEE…”

“Sure I can lastly say I HATE THAT SONG!!!! It was sang badly at each expertise sow and performed on each radio station and automotive stereo in Chicago that yr…”

“Weak is a FOREVER SONG…it hits totally different everytime it comes on.”

“She stays throwing his however I really like her.”

Brian Alexander Morgan penned and produced the R&B lower. The hitmaker instructed Advanced in a 2014 interview that he was impressed by a crush he had on singer Chante Moore. He initially wrote the music for Charlie Wilson, however The Hole Band crooner handed on the file, main it to seek out its technique to SWV.

In keeping with Billboard, the music debuted on the Scorching 100 chart in April 1993. It spent two weeks within the No. 1 spot, dethroning Janet Jackson’s 8-week run on the high with “That’s the Manner Love Goes,” and spent a complete of 26 weeks on the chart.

On Spotify, “Weak” has been streamed greater than 144,000,000 instances. In September 2022, the Recording Trade Affiliation of America licensed the file thrice platinum.

Powerhouse vocalist JoJo coated the favored hit for her self-titled debut album in 2004. However what could also be followers’ most favourite current tackle the file got here from Tamar Braxton. Unsurprisingly, the gifted songstress belted out the file with seemingly little to no effort.