Milli Vanilli

in the early 90s late 80s, there was a German dance and R&B music duo, called Milli Vanilli, created by German dance producer, Frank Farian. The duos biggest hits and famous songs “ blame it on the rain”, “ girl you know it’s true”, and” girl I’m gonna miss you”.

However, these hits were not the groups hits, no, actually, the voices on the tracks belong to studio session, singers, who worked with the Farian. So if I dare say that the real Milli Vanilli were the session singers, and it would be true.

The faces of Milli Vanilli, were too struggling club dancers in Germany or France. Don’t remember which named Robin Fab. Their fashions they were were awesome. Unfortunately, Rob Palis passed away from a drug overdose long after. The remaining member of the duo is Fabrice Morvan. Rest in peace to Rob Politis.

Things begin to unravel, for a while, the truth that Rob and Fab were not singing, but lip syncing. When, once, during a show, the cassette tape had jammed and skipped. And that happening is the beginning of the end for the duo. Rob Politis never recovered from the lip-synching controversy, leading to his increased drug use, and his eventual demise. His last known interview was with VH ones behind the music and their piece on Milli Vanilli.

When the controversy came out, there was nothing that could be done to stop the fire storm that followed. Robin Fab had one a Grammy award before the scandal and the controversy hit. However, the Academy later took the Grammy back. I hold an unpopular point of view on this issue because I really think that the award should be given back to the dual. why I believe that is because nowadays everybody lip-synchs it’s common and nobody gets upset about it. Everybody lip-synchs nowadays, so so that is why I think the duo should be given back their award.

Why is it I believe this? For the very simple reason that today it is common for ours to lip sync. Then Robin and Fab were treated as social pariah, for doing what is a normal practice in the music industry. Actually, they were unknowing pioneers of the art form that is now an art form known as lip-synching. And Fab did the tracks themselves, and the songs were better than the ones they were forced to lip sync to.

Rob and fab had done a bubblegum commercial making fun of themselves, And the whole lip-synching controversy. The bubblegum brand was Carefree sugar, less gum. It’s actually a pretty funny ad, they, as Milli Vanilli, our lip syncing to an opera record, and then the record skips. Both make faces saying we did it again. The commercial is very very tongue-in-cheek.

At the time the scandal hit, the controversy was parodied on the new and hip urban comedy show at the time “ living color”. The skit was made to look like a commercial for toys, like you can dress up, like Milli Vanilli with costumes. Damon Wayans and and Keenan Ivory Wayans were the two in the skit with horrible accents.

To add to the parody in the ad for Carefree, sugarless gum, the duo did their infamous running sidekick dance, move. Talk show host Arsenio Hall also got in on the act of making fun of the duo, one night during his monologue, he did a parody lampoon of the line “girl you know it’s true. I love you” , he did some clever wordplay by changing it to “girl you know it’s true ooh ooh ooh you are through”.

To hear Robin Fab actually sing themselves, they were actually good at singing. I also feel that the producer, Frank Farian, had underestimated them. He also underestimated the session singers, who became known as the real Milli Vanilli.