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Why was the Milli Vanilli such a big deal?
Posted on 5/9/26 at 12:37 pm
Posted on 5/9/26 at 12:37 pm
They didn't steal the music. Was it because the egos of the music people were hurt because they got fooled? The gave a fake award to a fake act?
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Posted on 5/9/26 at 12:57 pm to boogiewoogie1978
Someone was really singing those songs. Rob and Fab were just actors instead of the real singers.
C&C Music Factory did the same thing and got away with it. The hot girl was an actress and the real vocalist was one of the Weather Girls.
C&C Music Factory did the same thing and got away with it. The hot girl was an actress and the real vocalist was one of the Weather Girls.
Posted on 5/9/26 at 1:56 pm to boogiewoogie1978
I liked ‘em.
Posted on 5/9/26 at 2:27 pm to boogiewoogie1978
It's interesting because we've come full circle since then. Milli Vanilla were caricatures who sang bubblegum pop music and were easy fodder to clown. Ashlee Simpson was eviscerated for singing over backing tracks on SNL a few years ago. Now, it's almost expected for acts to not only sing over backing tracks but for entire instrument sessions to be missing during live performances. Not only that, artists are adopting AI wholesale into their music productions.
Posted on 5/9/26 at 3:57 pm to shutterspeed
Big difference being that Milli Vanilli were lip syncing to someone else's vocals and pretending it was them. Ashlee Simpson was lip syncing to her own vocals.
Posted on 5/9/26 at 8:19 pm to Brosef Stalin
Their gig created Manti Te'o
Posted on 5/9/26 at 11:31 pm to boogiewoogie1978
WHY WASN'T THE GRAMMY GIVEN TO THE ACTUAL GROUP THAT MADE THE SONGS?
So it was't Rob and Fab, there were real people that played the music and sang the songs. All it did was show the music industry was all about selling an image and not the actual music.
So it was't Rob and Fab, there were real people that played the music and sang the songs. All it did was show the music industry was all about selling an image and not the actual music.
Posted on 5/11/26 at 10:52 am to boogiewoogie1978
Fake or not, Milli Vanilli put out some fricking bangers.
Posted on 5/11/26 at 5:20 pm to boxcarbarney
Seems like there are the beginnings of a reconsideration of the Milli Vanilli out there.
Posted on 5/11/26 at 7:27 pm to Bestbank Tiger
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C&C Music Factory did the same thing and got away with it.
I dont think C&C ever claimed the woman in the video was the singer although they didn’t properly credit Martha, and did have a woman lip-sync in some live performances. Martha did sue them and things were settled out of court. At some point her name was added to the credits of the video on MTV.
I’d Do Anything For Love also had a woman in the video who wasn’t the woman singing on the record. For that matter neither was the woman in the Paradise By the Dashboard Light video. While Karla DeVito (Mrs. Robbie Benson) was on tour with Meat Loaf, she was not the singer on the record. Ellen Foley (Billie Young from the second season of Night Court, and at one time girlfriend of Mick Jones of The Clash. Should I Stay Or Should I Go is about Ellen)) sang on Bat Out of Hell.
Now you know, the rest of the story.
Posted on 5/11/26 at 8:34 pm to johnqpublic
Yall need to watch the Milli Vanilli doc that came out last year.
I felt bad for them. Just two poor kids that were taken advantage of and had no idea what they were doing.They were blacklisted forever
I felt bad for them. Just two poor kids that were taken advantage of and had no idea what they were doing.They were blacklisted forever
This post was edited on 5/12/26 at 8:06 am
Posted on 5/12/26 at 10:42 am to boogiewoogie1978
Pre-internet we generally believed things presented to us as real on TV and in newspapers were real or true or we didn't really question it across the board
such as bands appearing on prime time TV shows lip syncing their songs and fake playing their instruments - we just sort of ignored it
ironically the Milli Vanilli scandal, the death of glamrock and the subsequent backlash fed right into alternative music and eventually the early days of chat rooms on the internet just a few years later
such as bands appearing on prime time TV shows lip syncing their songs and fake playing their instruments - we just sort of ignored it
ironically the Milli Vanilli scandal, the death of glamrock and the subsequent backlash fed right into alternative music and eventually the early days of chat rooms on the internet just a few years later
Posted on 5/12/26 at 11:01 am to boogiewoogie1978
Posted on 5/12/26 at 11:07 am to boogiewoogie1978
Nobody got fooled. Only 12 year old girls listened to this trash.
Posted on 5/12/26 at 1:04 pm to boogiewoogie1978
I saw Milli Vanilli and Paula Abdul on the MTV Tour at UNO in 88 or 89. Fun concert and full of good looking women on ecstasy. What a night. 
ETA: At that time, no one knew they were lip syncing.
ETA: At that time, no one knew they were lip syncing.
This post was edited on 5/12/26 at 1:05 pm
Posted on 5/12/26 at 1:43 pm to Crow Pie
I saw the tour in '89 in Milwaukee. It was Tone Loc, Paula Abdul, Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam, Information Society. And Was (Not Was) who I believe were the only group who didn't lip sync. Everyone knew that Milli Vanilli was because their tape or whatever malfunctioned at the beginning, causing them to storm off the stage twice, only to return a third time when everything finally synced up.
Posted on 5/12/26 at 3:11 pm to TommyCheeseballs
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Tone Loc, Paula Abdul, Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam, Information Society. And Was (Not Was)
Yep, that was it.Twas a hellava party.
Posted on 5/16/26 at 6:35 am to boogiewoogie1978
Blame it on the rain
Posted on 5/16/26 at 7:32 am to TommyCheeseballs
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Was (Not Was) who I believe were the only group who didn't lip sync.
Yeah I can't imagine Don Was lip syncing. Even crazier is some of the albums he went on to produce.
Posted on 5/19/26 at 11:11 am to boxcarbarney
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Fake or not, Milli Vanilli put out some fricking bangers.
Not ashamed to say I saw them live. Pretty sure it was at UNO Lakefront Arena. Maybe 1990 or so.
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