Why was the Milli Vanilli such a big deal?

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.

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.

Their gig created Manti Te'o