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Behind the Music Ushered in a Golden Age of Cultural Literacy
Milli Vanilli (Photo: Ingrid Segeith/Paramount+)
This week, Paramount+ debuts its new feature-length documentary Milli Vanilli, about the early '90s pop act who hit big with songs like "Girl You Know It's True," won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist, and then were mired in scandal when it was revealed that band members Fabrice Morvan and Rob Pilatus hadn't sung the vocals on their album and had been lip-syncing in all of their live performances.
A story like Milli Vanilli's has a huge generational component, not only to the Gen Xers who were there for the band's pop moment, but also to younger generations who have experienced so many levels of artifice within pop music that the idea of a scandal over lip-syncing seems deeply quaint, if not nonsensical. But perhaps the biggest generational divide over a Milli Vanilli documentary is that, for a certain demographic who was raised on cable TV of the mid-90s through early aughts, the Milli Vanilli story has already been told by the highest authority that TV back then could muster: VH1's Behind the Music.
In fact, Milli Vanilli was the subject of the very first episode of Behind the Music. Over one short hour in 1997, the documentary series laid out the b
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46: Fab Morvan | How to Persevere in the Wake of Scandal
Transcript for Fab Morvan | How to Persevere in the Wake of Scandal (Episode 46)
Fab Morvan: [00:00:00] You know how hard it is and how tough you need to be when he comes in and hits you, and I mean you find yourself alone and yeah, you're going to cry. You're going to have those things. I mean, I try not to cry, but the pain, you know you felt this pain of just, you don't know what to do at this point.
Jordan Harbinger: [00:00:24] Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with my producer, Jason DeFillippo. On this episode, we'll be talking with Fab Morvan. Now, this guy blast from the past, but also such a positive soul. Really, Jason, you got me this guy, it took forever and I at first was like, why do you want me to interview Fab Morvan? I don't understand, and now I get it. He is just such a positive dude. If you don't remember Milli Vanilli, essentially these guys, they were a huge hit act. And it turned out that they had been lip sinking all of their music, they gave back their Grammy. They immediately were retired in shame, and of course, it wasn't their idea. They could dance and they could sing and they were great performers and they were really positive and interesting and fun guy
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