The fact that the lip-syncing duo was exploited and the result of industry-wide issues in pop music was irrelevant. That myopic public scorn feels familiar today.
Singers Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus of Milli Vanilli were targeted by fans, media and the music industry alike for participating in a ruse that was, in actuality, much bigger than them. But that fact never mattered in the eyes of the public.
They were effectively canceled before that word was popularized. They were dismantled, dismissed and forgotten — by the media, fellow entertainers and fans alike. And despite a whole press conference about it, no one asked the real question: Who else was in on this? The film contextualizes their short-lived careers and name-drops all parties involved in the scam through eye-opening interviews with Morvan, musicians like Timbaland and Diane Warren, as well as other industry talent and cultural critics.It also raises a lot of still-relevant questions about the disturbing trend of deception in pop music — something famously concealed singerWere Morvan and Pilatus, age 24 and 26 at the time of their professional demise, participants in the ruse? Yes.
Four of the actual singers behind Milli Vanilli. Ray Horton, John Davis, Gina Mohammed, Frank Farian and Brad Howell at control board in recording studio.In fact, as the documentary highlights, Milli Vanilli was not even Farian’s first Black music act. He had previously produced Boney M., a disco-funk band in the ’70s.
Some of that came from Black media that would be particularly critical of how much the duo catered to white audiences, taking it as a slight to their Black fans when they blew up. Resentment from Black fans has never been a concern from producers like Farian or record companies, and is too often understood as the price you pay for greater success. Milli Vanilli, perhaps unwittingly, got swept up into that.
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