Fab Morvan Earns Grammy Nomination 35 Years After Milli Vanilli’s Best New Artist Award Was Revoked
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heresmytwopence@reddit
Music had already had a long history of quietly swapping out front men with session musicians before Milli Vanilli came along. Most of what our parents grew up listening to was recorded by people they'd never heard of. I genuinely believe that Fab and Rob wanted and thought they would be contributing more to those records. They also did the hard work of promoting it. I could maybe understand someone feeling a little salty about having gone to a concert to watch them lip sync, but they were still out there dancing their asses off. I'm happy to see them finally getting proper credit for their part in Milli Vanilli's success. Charles Shaw and the people in the studio deserve credit too. Frank Farian was the bastard.
SweetCosmicPope@reddit
What's kind of wild is that most major pop stars today don't even sing at their concerts. They lipsync and put on a dance show. The superbowl has been doing this for years, too.
So if this were to happen today it wouldn't even be a big deal that their "backing track" skipped.
On the second point, I remember years ago watching the "Behind the Music" of Milli Vanilli, and that's exactly what happened. They wanted to make their own music, but the powers that be said they weren't good enough and used hired guns to do the actual recording. After the fact they tried to do their own album with their own voices, but it didn't hit. I've never heard it, so I don't know if it was due to a lack of quality or if their brand was just too damaged by the scandal.
JeffreyGoolst@reddit
Rob & Fabs 1993 comeback album has some fantastic music. However, the record company was going bankrupt and had no money to promote the album. I have one and @fabmorvan created a wonderful sounding solo album called LOVE REVOLUTION.
red286@reddit
Tony Burrows is a 5-time one-hit-wonder, and at one point had four songs in the UK charts at the exact same time, with four different bands.
FreddyNoodles@reddit
Lopez performs almost none of her sings. There are several artists that sing her music with her very lightly dubbed over in some parts. There is a ton of video evidence on YouTube. Tommy Mottola wanted her to replace Mariah so he pushed for her to be huge. I just learned all this like a year ago. It’s nuts. She is a great dancer, she cannot sing.
upstatestruggler@reddit
Girl you know it’s girl you know it’s girl you know it
Milli Vanilli panics, exits stage
FreddyNoodles@reddit
They were better about it than Ashley.
IceSmiley@reddit
Fuck Fab
WhoStoleMyJacket@reddit
Why? I’m sorry but my knowledge of Milli Vanilli-lore is pretty much nonexistent -beyond the whole 'did not sing on their albums/sing-back live' drama from the 90’s
xRVAx@reddit
Plot twist: The audiobook was actually written and recorded by CHARLES SHAW!
LiminalOrphanEnnui@reddit
Blame it on the drains that keep cloggin' cloggin'.