The Truth About Milli Vanilli's Lip-Sync Scandal
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- Опубликовано: 5 авг 2024
- Milli Vanilli's Fab Morvan was so devastated by the group's lip-syncing scandal that for years he refused to show his face in public. For his partner, Rob Pilatus, the aftermath proved even harsher.
#Singers #Musicians #LipSync
Trying to make it | 0:00
Frank Farian's big idea | 0:49
Charade worked too well | 1:48
Then it was all over | 2:37
Aftermath | 3:21
Voiceover by: Tim Bensch
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Do you feel lip-syncing is a big deal?
I do it everyday 😂😂😂😂😂
no. but if a an old video shows some singing & I can tell it's the record, that's sort of a little disappointing.
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It depends on the situation. If someone is only performing one song on a TV show, it's understandable that they won't do an extensive sound check and would rather opt for a lip sync. However, a concert should be mostly, if not entirely, live.
i don't know? It kind of matters. Primarily if everyone's not getting paid for their part in it. especially the real singer. Before music videos, you didn't really know what the people looked like so why should it really matter? They've got the incredible voice. Pop Music seems to like the package deal. Coming out of the grunge era I do feel a bit cheated, I definitely wouldn't want to go to a concert with someone lip synching. I do feel bad for Fab and Rob though, they could never really get a job in entertainment again after that, and it's a waist of two really good looking men. Everyone should've been after the producer. But alas, news reporters only see the face.
What happened to them was just sad & unfair. It's funny how lipsyncing is so popular now..
Agree. Most groups, especially K-pop groups, lip sync or sing over their tracks. It’s widely acceptable because there is no way they can do all the dancing and singing at the same time. They are human!
I was just thinking the same thing however this is how the spot light is look how much we loved Whitney Huston and as soon as they found out her drug problems the just dropped her and Michale Jackson's sisters nip slip. This world checew you up and spit you out life .
The problem was they were using someone else's voice. And they did not get paid.
@@cliffbutler9820 yeah that's fine now also and that Manger got off real easy
I was a huge MiliVanilli when I was a tween. I wish I could still listen to their music. I used to rent their music videos from the video store.
Meanwhile people get famous for lip syncing on TikTok. This duo was way ahead of their time
Exactly!
They were such an integral part of my music history that I still have this album on my ITunes. I know the history but will remain their fans.
Milli Vanilli's story made a great "Behind the Music" episode back in 1997. It would make a great movie too.
I saw a trailer for a documenary on them for the Peacock streaming service.
And still better singers/rappers than Cardi B
Look, I bought Fab and Rob’s record after Milli Vanilli and it was really good. They sang on this record and did great! As for Milli Vanilli it was a pop band that made great records fronted by Fab and Rob who danced and did athletic things on stage that people enjoyed. The studio singers for Milli were heavier and older and less conditioned and would be having a lot harder time trying to do Milli’s live show. Also, lots of bands have multitracked vocals meaning a singer to boost a voice sings over themselves as well as singers have been known to have other singers sing with them at the same time to strengthen vocals. Milli Vanilli was not a big deal because people heard real talent on the record and saw real talent perform on the shows.
theirs is a truly sad story
Did the actual singers get paid? This was not all of their fault. Shame that they paid the ultimate price when it was the schemes of the people behind the music.
I feel so bad for them.
I feel so bad for them too
Seems most every comments are saying lip syncing is ok or acceptable. What people are not understanding is that Milli Vanilli was lip syncing some other singers. They did not sing the songs in a studio and then lip synched when they were live on stage. Milli Vanilli had no input NO voices in any of the songs. They were just models hired for looks for the shallow public to look at because the producers felt the original singers were not attractive enough to sell the records
Exactly. That’s literally the story of Milli Vanilli. Not just because they got caught lip syncing. Many artists were doing it at the time, the difference was they were lip-syncing to their own vocals. I said in my comment the only other music act that should get compared to them is Black Box, vocals by Martha Wash. i don’t understand why the comments are trying to have a discourse over lip-syncing when that’s just not the point of Milli Vanilli’s story..
It wasn’t that they were lip-syncing…the issue was that it wasn’t them singing in the first place.
Exactly everyone in the comments and the channel that made this video seem to be confused and think them getting caught lip syncing was why they received so much backlash.
I always thought they were related! The resemblance is uncanny. I don't care who sang the songs but I loved them and still do to this day. I can't help but feel sorry for them. They were taken advantage of.
Ahhh High School.... They were on the radio constantly. I liked ALL music back then. They had some good songs. I had zero issues with lip-syncing and still don't have any. It's entertainment. If you are entertaining me and I am having a good time I couldn't care less. I mean if you like a long what does it matter right? Auto tune and lip-syncing are everywhere. Should have just owned up to it from the very start..
Back then, Milli Vanilli performed at all these "little kids" shows like Don't Just Sit There, Total Panic, and The New Mickey Mouse Club, among all things.
@@meyerj75 Yep. They were everywhere. Their music was fairly G to PG so they could hit more markets. And hit them they did...
@@lknanml Indeed. I watched a lot of Nickelodeon back in 1989 and my then 7 year old sister was an avid New Mickely Mouse Club fan. So we were both aware of Milli Vanilli's popularity long before the scandal. 1989 was the calm before the storm.
I feel for them. They meant well and deserved better. They were just so talented and it's sad they couldn't sing there own songs. I'm glad they stood up to their manager. I'm just sad it ruined their career and Robs dead.
THAT performance on July 21, 1989 happened at the Lake Compounce Amusement Park in Bristol, Connecticut where the duo performed there as part of the Club MTV tour. They were in the middle of "Girl You Know It's True" when the tape got stuck forcing them to mime the lyric "Girl You Know It's Girl You Know It's Girl You Know It's" over and over again in which Rob ran off stage in panic although nobody in the audience seemed to care according to Julie Brown who was present at the time but Kurt Lauder claimed there were a number of reporters out there that had something to say about the line repeating incident.
And this was the least of Lake Compounce's worries. The nail in the coffin on live concert performances came when Guns and Roses failed to appear a sold out show over there two years later causing a riot in the park as at least 12,000 tickets were sold. And it came after the "camera" incident in the midwest. As a result of the park's inability to make up for the losses, Lake Compounce was closed for two consecutive years (1992 & 1993) before slowly rejuvenating to a theme park a few years later and there were no more concerts for the next three decades. When they did hold concerts in 2023, Guns and Roses were banned from ever performing there again and it's uncertain if Fabrice Morvan will bring his act "Fabrice Morvan sings the songs from Milli Vanilli' to Lake Compounce again although he does sing this time around.
Lip Syncing is one of the most important aspects to RuPaul’s Drag Race Race, deciding who stays or goes to the next episode,
Plus it’s featured in many sketches. It’s treated as an art form. Lip Synch Assassins 😊
Yes but they know it upfront that it’s lip syncing
@@jennlarez4227 yes, its an apples and oranges comparison. One is an art form, the other an international laughingstock and embarrassment
lip synching was ALWAYS popular, not just after Milli Vanilli. Top of the Pops, Solid Gold, American Bandstand, there's a whole history of it... and the Producer "making" an act. Frank Farian did this all before with Boney M in the 70s There seemed to have been a lot more in the 80's too. Mostly dance acts... C and C Music Factory was another with Martha Walsh. Jocelyn Brown samples. It doesn't seem to be a problem if they get paid, but to pretend someone better looking is singing in the videos or on stage. It's sad these two had to take the fall for an entire system. C and C didn't get a grammy, but they were nominated.
I really loved the songs. What were the people’s names that really sang the song? If you said it on the video I did not catch it.
Lip syncing is more accepted now, all these people on tiktok with millions of followers just for doing good lip syncing
I don’t think the issue with Milli Vanilli was them lip-syncing. The issue was that they were lip-syncing to OTHER people’s vocals. That’s the backlash. Not them lip-syncing. People didn’t have much of an issue with Janet, Britney, or JLo lip-syncing because at least they were lip syncing to their own recorded vocals. Yeah it’s more acceptable today than back then, but that isn’t what the issue was regarding Milli Vanilli. If it was their own vocals, i think they would’ve continued for many more years.
Yes what they did is so used today. It is too bad they were treated so poorly 2:43
They promoted and advertised the songs. Without them the songs wouldn't have been have big as what they were.
I find hard when I sing and remember things so it’s better to lipsinc if ur me because lip sincking helps me
Best band ever!
So many people ok with using another person voice and faking it to your audience. Imagine Beyonce not really being able to sing.
They laughed at the man who invented peanut butter but y’all ass still eating Skippy😂
This is a very sad story,when you see and hear this is widely accepted today.Such a wasted talent
Lol had Milli Vanilli come out in 2010, they’d be legends today! All image and no substance is what keeps the music industry alive…not talent. This scandal happened at a time when music was still a respected art form. Too bad for them, but it was right for them to be exposed as frauds. Today, the media wouldn’t care 😂😂😂.
Right! My thoughts exactly
I see the documentary in my Paramount+ lineup guess I'll have to watch it. I just remember they were real good we all liked them but they came and went like *_POOF_* fast! And for the life of me I never understood what the fickle powers that be (or were) in Hollyweirdland got their pink panties in such a knot about? Who cares who's voices they were!? They were a music _act_ and, having lived the disco era, seems I recall half the disco wonders of the day weren't using their real voices either so why not. Ugh! I can't remember one person caring about or bothered by the Milli Vanilli voice drama. What I do remember is everyone liked them, a lot, and being quite upset that suddenly they're forced to de-band just because of dubbed voices! Nobody CARED! Probably some bitter fat music queen mogul calling the shots cared and that was that. I'm sure there's WAY more to this story than we'll ever know about. Hollywood, the land of plastic hypocrisy. Well I'm gonna go watch the Paramount+ doc and see what it has to say,.news at 11. 😏 😊
Lip singing: Media killed the radio stars 😭
**Lip-syncing
Like Danger Mouse killed Dusty's Treehouse on Nickelodeon.
"Singing" a parody to video killed the radio star by the buggles
They were just ahead of their time
You can’t just compare artists of today’s lip/syncing to Milli Vanilli. They did not sing a single note on their album. That’s not the case with these other artists that lip-sync to their own songs. The only other act you can compare Milli Vanilli to is Black Box and C+C & Music Factory and the girl group Seduction
I thought it was more the message in there music which got them cancelled.
Why is everybody confusing lip synching of today with Milli Vanilli????? Lip synching has been going on for decades. The difference is that the artists lip synched to their OWN VOCALS! Milli Vanilli did it to the vocals of other singers. They didn't sing a single note. Not even backing vocals. They were the face and a whole other band was the music. Apparently the guys who were the real singers were older and not as attractive.
I never understood the backlash.
So what if those two didn't sing the songs??
If you like the songs, what difference does it make who sang them??
It makes a huge difference smh like wtf thats why it's less talent now then ever before. At one time you needed to know how to sing to be famous.
@@taniesha64 I have never been one to idolize singers therefore the fact these two were not the ones who recorded the songs made no difference to me. I enjoy certain songs on the merits of those songs, not on who sang the songs.
My only issue with this situation is that I hope the actual singers, song writers and musicians involved in creating the music received an equitable share of the earnings.
I think the majority of record buyers didn't care too much. Maybe they wouldn't have even cared if they knew right away that the two of them weren't singing, because as you said, they liked the songs. I guess the producer and the record company wanted to create a perfect illusion. They even credited Rob and Fab as singers on the album, and that was just a lie. They were a German act, pretended to be singers, sold as many copies of an album as Bobby Brown and got a Grammy for it. That's why it was such a backlash.
They were pretty
but what about the real singers, why don't they became famous
FRANK FARIAN should be in JAIL . He stole the song he stole the vocals and he stole these young men's souls and sold them up the river to fame and kept their fortune. Hes disgusting.
Love how the mastermind, a White man, didn't face any meaningful repercussions that the two frontmen, men of color, faced. Not surprised, just frustrated.
How many peoples speaking voices sound like their singing voices? Dumb
@realdonaldtrump: You're fake music!
NO WAY ! U CANT SING LIVE U CANT SING FOR CRAP!😡
The issue was not that they were lip-syncing. The issue was that they didn’t sing on the tracks AT ALL. They were lip-syncing to someone else’s voices.
@@carastone3473 do u remember when this broke and how they tried to sing it?
First
1989!!!!???? The incident happened before the Grammy's. Man, they probably refused to believe that they are doing it because they have become so big