Anyone Remember Milli Vanilli?
Published by simon on September 20, 2005Who doesn’t? The two look-alike dreadlocked German male model singers were caught in an international controversy and humiliation when they were exposed by the media for lip-synching their way to a Grammy (Best New Artiste) and three American Music Awards (Best Fake Singers, Best Artiste Most Likely to be Models, Artistes Having Most Influence on NKOTB)
They released two albums with some sweety dancey songs like “Baby, Don’t Forget My Number“, “Girl You Know It’s True“, “Look Ma, I Can Lip-Synch” and “But, Hey, Our Listeners Are Pretty Dumb“.
I remember my best bud Vicky is really into them back in school. He would listen to his cassette over and over again on his mini-compo (yeah, when was the last time you heard the term ‘mini-compo‘?!). He would also watch their videos (probably taped from ‘\’Top of the Pops‘) and tried to emulate their cheesy dance moves. Kinda hard to dance like them when Vicky had short hair.
Then after winning the Grammy (I remember watching that edition, they spoke English with an accent like Adolf Hitler, but sang without any accents… go figure… anyway, I have to close this parentheses…) came the shame of it all. They became an international joke, and condemned by everyone.
I a bit of google searching the other day, and found that the two guys, Fabrice Morgan and Rob Pilatus did try to make a comeback a few years after that, but things didn’t go so well. Rob (I couldn’t really tell the two apart) tried to commit suicide and later died of drug overdose. The other guy, Fabrice (yeah, this guy must have got beaten up a lot as a kid in school) tried to launch a solo career a few years ago. He has his own website that also has a pretty good write-up on Milli Vanilli’s history. For other sites, you can check out here and here.
My friend Vicky, was a little disappointed after the whole lip-synching fiasco back then. But he got over it pretty quickly. A few weeks later he was raving about MC Hammer or Vanilla Ice or something like. Now Vanilla Ice was big back then… (”Ice, Ice, Baby… Vanilla Ice, Ice, Baby…”)
Yes yes, Milli Vanilli…And then after they were exposed, the real band who sang the songs came up with an album. They called themselves “The Real Milli Vanilli”..to bad they didn’t go very far…hehe
Milli Vanili? Yup, exposure came at the same time as Jason Donovan, then mac tukul and vanilla ice.
However Ice ice baby’s bass is still a good music to rock my ICE (Nope silly, its not deep sea fish on ice)
holy shit man, i didn’t not it was lip-sync work. DAMN!!! anyway, i just got their Blame it on the rain… quite cool though…
Hahhahh!!! But dammit, I loved those guys far better that the Real Milli Vanilli. At least they had showmanship. Kakakak!
The hair, the braids, the looks. Who cares if they can’t sing huh? LOL! After going down the supermarket aisle, you are going down memory lane pulak. Oh ya, the other chap of Duran Duran oso lip sync hor?
nicktay & james - my friend Vicky ALSO bought the tape by the Real MV. He said it was lousy.
mahagurusia - jason donovan? ahahaha… that MR. Kylie Minogue…!
nilesh babu - all our teenage dreams die out one by one, man… so sad…
Lilian - WHICH duran duran chap LIP-SYNCH?!! NOOO-OOOOO!!!! Not Duran Duran!!!
“Girl you know its true”
gosh thats sort of like the first ever pop song that i learn to sing. I think i can still remember the lyrics. I know the bahasa version too…..kekekeke
ba-ba-ba-ba
ba-ba-ba-ba-baby…
don’t forget my number.
hahahahahaha! stupid lah MV. but sure was fun…
hey the other day wasn’t MC Hammer on the MTV Video Music Awards? Maybe next we could have Eminem coming up with a song “featuring” Vanilla Ice. that would be something….
Oh gawd. Yes I do rememeber. Right up there with Modern Talking.
Wow, really brought back college days memories
Lip synch or not, they sure don’t make songs like those anymore. Pop nowadays are just total crap. My listening nowadays are reduced to Hoobastank, Michael Buble, Missy Higgins, U2 and Norah Jones. And oldies, lots and lots of oldies from the 80’s and 90’s
Soli, just realised I got the wrong group. What do you call that George Michael’s partner liao? And their group’s name was? OK, go have a good snigger.
Somemore got Frankie Goes to Hollywood!
Man, you’re really an 80’s person, aren’t you?
milli vanilli? must be back way before my time.
i know hammer though…still listening to his songs..sometimes..
stop. hammer time. je je je je…
Heheheheh.. those knee-jerk style dance moves, jeans koyak, hair flying everywhere… oh gawd, thank god for rap!
I custom tailored a pair of mc. tukul pants, aka aladdin style. Its so huge that one can hide 10 chickens in them. Doing the hammer time in them was fun! Now, nobody tell a word to the world, ok?
On 2nd thought, maybe I should dig them out, nope I am not gonna wear them (will never fit!) and ebay them. Could be a gem in the making?
Eh, how come you know so much wan? Hmm…I somehow have a weird feeling that Vicky and Simon are the same person.
I also big time TOTP kaki back then.
Hey Simon, do a Top 10 Trivia on the 80s lah.
fashionasia - i say, you oso big fan aa?
mudslinger - MC Hammer came on for like 2 minutes and sang two lines. Very disappointed. I thot the Black Eyed Peas were going to join him, it was either cancelled or edited out.
shan - modern talking! i forgotten about them! “You’re my heart… you’re my soul…”
Pat - yeah, you know you’re old when you start to blog about MILLI VANILLI.
lilian - Aiyoo! ith Frankie Goes to Hollywood very ghey wan lar! their song ‘Relax’ got banned wat… Geroge Michael’s group is called Village People’Wham!’.
sexymum - YEAH, BABY!!!
yuin - they always come on [V] and radio one… just watch for it…
sashi - but sashi, didn’t you also have the dreadlocks and koyak jeans look back in then also? i remember wat…
mahagurusia - wear them, take a pix and post it up! i believe they were called ‘diaper pants’.
anjali - my pals watched TOTP on VHS every week. I’ve never even seen an episode… 80’s trivia? If i start, you’ll never hear the end of it!
OMG…that was like donkey yrs ago n YES i remember them. hehehe….
but sad, very sad indeed to b exposed like that.
Oh I remember them very well. They were my favorite band back when I was 6-7 and I saw them in concert twice. And neither time could I tell they were lip synching, lol. I still like the music, though. I figure, if you liked the music before the scandal, why dislike it just because the frontmen weren’t the real singers.
but after the scandal, we didn’t get to hear their original stuff. aparently there were some distribution issues…
Milli Vanilli is not bad for fake singers
Milli Vanilli Is Gay… The Look Gay, They Dress Gay And They Sing Gay…Reconize BeArCh!
The Real singers sounds sort of a lot better than the fake bastards
Milli Vanilli…….
the dream is over cause they were fake singing bastards
fake singing bastards why? why? why? why? why? nah all good, its just why do they dress like women MILLI VANILLI FAKE SINGERS SINCE 1988!!
from Nick rangi
The Fake singer are better than the real singers
The Best ever Fake singers in the World
“well sort of”
I Love Milli Vanilli I love their sexy voice cause it sounds sexy
I love that Blame it on the Rain song cause that’s my Sexy Beautiful song
Yeah, we have a radio programme here in Oz that has a show every afternoon, called where are they now. They managed to track fabrice Morgan down about two weeks ago, and there is a movie about the Milli Vanilli deal in production, he is nringing out another album - keeping very busy.
i love their songs, i don’t know why they continues making more music.
they were good guys
they are soooooooo gay you guys loo, sing, act, and are GAY right?
Hello…Man i love reading your blog, interesting posts ! it was a great Sunday .
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