I'll admit that I liked a few of their songs but never went out and got their album or anything.My question is for those who did...After they (the guys in the videos)were outed as not being the real singers of the songs, did you stop listening to their music? Did you feel ripped off?

I remember hearing that some people even demanded a refund for their cd's.What I don't understand is, the songs weren't any different. Just the people you saw in the videos were.

Did it matter to you or anybody that you knew?

I bought the cassette when it came out and I still have it. I still play it from time to time (it's in awesome condition the cassette). I love the songs. Too bad they were fakers

They even received a Grammy

They won't be performing anytime soon. One of the dudes committed suicide

I recently bought their The Remix Album cd, it's awesome

Everyone felt like they were duped!

I know my sisters and I stopped listening to that Girl You Know Its False cassette.

We all moved on to Black Box and C+C Music Factory.

Yeah, the pressure and ridicule of being outted was too much for one of them. That is too bad.

CinisterCee said:

Let's not start with that one!

sitruk7 said:

Everybody
Dance
Now!

Funny thing is, even the "original" singers were kinda fake because I had already heard that "Girl You Know It´s True " song about a year and a half before Milli Vanilli even stepped on the scene....not that I liked it , but the original singers were some kind of an obscure rap group in the mid eighties, I don´t remember their name anymore but they were released on that cheap "Zyx" or "Styx" or whatever that label was called.
That label was behind a lot of synth-pop rap back then. I think they also released those BVSMP guys over here, or at least distributed them.

The group that originally did "Girl You Know It´s True " also did that alphabet type of rap where the guy raps about his ex-girlfriends, you know, like A is for Agatha, B is for Bertha, C is for Celeste...in my head I remember your names type of shit. Of course he was saying different names...

I didn't give a flip anyway. They had a few good songs (with the exact same drum programming), but their image was wack anyway. Bangin' on each other's waxes chests midflight in the air. Yes, that's much better than some ugly dudes or whatever their issue was.

the guys did something anyone of us would do,
they were given money because of their looks
and i think Fabrice Full redeemed himself with his own musical aspirations
http://www.myspace.com/fabmorvanmusic
so he's alright with me

^Never mind Fabrice; we as consumers felt like we needed redemption!

sitruk7 said:

I said that then and I still say it now.

You shouldn't listen to music based on image. I think it was an important lesson to be learned, especially for me being a child growing up as MTV was already in full force.

Let me tell you something -- I LOVED "Blame it on the Rain."

Yeah, Yeah.

It truly hurt my heart when I could not sing it or play it in front of people out of embarassment. And I liked the guys too...I was already attached to their unique look.

It was such a weird unsettling experience trying to detach them from the songs I liked and associated them with. It was nearly impossible to listen to the songs again.

I still have nostalgia for them, however.

CinisterCee said:

I was in Europe when Milli Vanilli broke and I saw them on a German music show. They were in a bathtub and wearing top hats. The guy began interviewing them after the video aired and the light skinned guy Ron Pilatus? began hammering out in German sounding like Arnie Schwarzenegger. My friend was over and he was a musician. I said "how can he sing like a Yankie Soul Brother and then start sounding like the Terminator's son, and he said "that's not them singing." I didn't think much of it. Then a few months later, the World Music Awards showed aired from France, and they performed and collected their award and the dark skinned guy speaks in fluent French. Funny, but Blackbox was on the same show and the girl accepted her award rattling out in fluent French as well. I knew Martha's voice anywhere because I followed the Weather Girls when they were with Sylvester, so I knew the chick from Blackbox and CC Music Factory was faking.

I felt really bad for them because they were just two young guys who wanted to be famous, but it was still a messed up thing to do. And yeah, Ron Pilatus did commit suicide. The brown skinned guy, Fab, last I heard was working with a band in L.A. this was back in the 90s.

LQ