I remember liking the four Milli Vanilla songs that I heard over and over again and I remember being surpised when they were exposed as lip-synchers (while performing on a live MTV event, their record began to skip--whoops!). Now that I think of it that must have been a scary feeling for them, performing as profession singers and just mouthing the lyrics. Pictured: front Milli Vanilli lip synchers, Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan.I have such a bad voice that I have always pretend to sing. And some music teachers caught me and told me to sing, so I re-pretended, always pretending.
Of course, I wasn't singing professionally and I never won any awards for pretending to be sing.
Back in the day when Milli exploded silently onto the stage (although the actual music was great; it just wasn't coming from them). we didn't have Wikipedia to find things out so we just ignorantly plodded along in our collective states of unawareness
Some key dates in MV history; read the Wikipedia articles.
1989 - Milli Vanilli's "Girl You Know It's True" broke into the Top 40.
1996 - Former Milli Vanilli lip-syncher Rob Pilatus ended up in a Los Angeles area hospital after a man hit him over the head with a baseball bat.
http://chicagoathome.com/dct/62/id/308094/mid/1796/Pop-Music-Flashback.aspx
Rob Pilatus, lip-syncher, Milli Vanilli, dies at 32 (April 1998--drug overdose)
http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2007/02/20/girl-you-know-its-true-milli-vanill-biopic-will-reveal-the-truth/
http://www.brainyhistory.com/events/1998/april_2_1998_387810.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pilatus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milli_Vanilli
Though I regret that they cheated, I liked the music. Also, I can't be two tough on people with such issues in their lives.
And while I cheated by not singing and would do so again, let's just say that I protected the ears of people near me AND I saved myself from considerable embarrassment.
If it makes you feel better, call me "Milli Vanilli" Bob
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Bob Hoff
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