Reading a BBC piece the other day about the legendary "miming vocalist" fallout surrounding Black Box 's 1989 hit "Ride on Time", i got to thinking that Milli Vanilli got a pretty raw deal out of their whole experience with same. The point's been made before that their biggest crime was essentially being twenty years ahead of their time (see this DKPresents piece for a concise and interesting precis). But was it? Or was it more serious for MV that they failed to pay lip service to pop culture's bizarre and uneven obsession [...]
Newark, OhioMilli Vanilli - Don't Forget My NumberYes, that's right, I went there and posted a Milli Vanilli song. Hey, if it's class you want, go see Joe, he's linking up to some Miles Davis.
Ashlee Simpson made an ass of herself on "Saturday Night Live" This is just too painful. Remember Ashlee Simpson trying to lip-synch a song on "Saturday Night Live"? In 2004 she appeared as a musical guest and performed one song without incident but during her second spot the pre-recorded vocals for the first song came over the PA while her band kept playing. Caught red-handed, Simpson did an idiotic jig then ran off the stage. Ass. Milli Vanilli . These guys took lip-synching [...]
When the name Milli Vanilli is invoked, there is a refreshing lack of grey area. It is about as ambiguous as buttmunch or sleazewad , and it is more specific: the Milli Vanilli of anything is a lip-synching, no-talent, phony-baloney poser of the highest (or, rather, the lowest) order. You gotta like the clarity.
Raise your hand if you were expecting Sacha Baron Cohen's Bruno to have former Milli Vanilli member Rob Pilatus (a.k.a. "the dead one") as an unwitting guest star: "There's an eye-popping montage of extreme gay sex practices (imaginary, one hopes), a surfeit of waving penises, dildos, fetish gear, anal bleaching, and an excruciating mime in which Brüno fellates the ghost of a deceased member of Milli Vanilli in front of a psychic." Um... well, perhaps this heightened visibility will result in Sony Music finally undeleting Girl You Know It's True from its catalog? Publicity is publicity! [...]
You want urban, you want B-More (Baltimore) beats? Well look no further because Tittsworth is gonna bring it to you. I've partied with Jesse more than once, at a graffiti conference which later led to the presidential suite where people rocked their dicks and/or vag's off till the sun came up. Fuckin' dood always brings a party. So come getchu some and expect to have a great time. Do I sense an afterparty?...I can smell it! Make sure to RSVP to this for you of-agers. RSVP HERE . As [...]
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Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, April 24, 2009... Eminem seems to think that hip-hop will be a better place because he's back. Will it Marshall? Will it really? Did you know that... Continue reading "Today In Music News: Eminem Saves Hip-Hop, Mastodon Goes Crazy, Milli Vanilli Goes Hollywood and The Kills Get Sick." >
Yo- Yo Ma and Itzak Perlman lied to me. First that little girl at the Beijing Olympics, now this. This is some Ashlee Simpson/ Milli Vanilli ish! I cried through that performance. It's really weird to find out that it was pre-recorded. Granted, the extreme cold would have made the instruments sound awful; you can't dance a warped piano string off. And everyone on stage was already a respectable performer, who doesn't "bow- sync" live, as far as we know. Still. It hurts inside. Blame it on the Rain by Milli Vanilli
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The opening line of a Guardian piece on China's new ban on TV lipsyncing: "So much for a Milli Vanilli reunion in Beijing." One would think that the minor inconvenience of Rob Pilatus being dead for 10 years (and counting) would be more of a hindrance to this sort of thing actually happening, but maybe the punishment is pretty severe! [ Guardian ]
So sometimes I don't sleep, and this time I was perusing my youtube channel and noticed that I hadn't posted this Boney M video on the weapon yet. Sorry! I uploaded a stolen copy to my youtube account in February of 2006, back when like, 10 people had youtube, and 2 years later it has over 3 million views and nearly 3 thousand comments. I think it gets something like 12 thousand new hits a week. Ridick. Dig the video for Boney M's hit about Russian maniac, Rasputin. Oh and get this: it was produced by [...]
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as seen on discodust . Combo’s on vocals. Combo - Just Change ( dir )/ ( ysi ) and here’s a track where the artist is not on vocals.. oh snap. I’m so bad. Milli Vanilli - Blame it on the Rain (Super Club mix) ( dir )/ ( ysi ) as seen on Nosebleed Electro . [...]
Enough time has passed through these pages that I again bring you the ever popular Best of the Remix series. This is volume 03. If you'd like to see the entire series displayed on one page just click here . I hope you enjoy the remixes, I'll be out of town seeing a friend play a concert and catching up with old university mates of mine for the weekend. Anyway, I thought you all could enjoy some awesome remixes over the weekend and maybe throw a little dance party while you're at it {although would [...]
I was browsing my collection of Billboard Top 100 single sets for post ideas when I ran across this track, number twenty-four from 1988: Richard Marx – Hold on to the Nights (from Richard Marx , 1987) Another sappy pop song from an era lousy with them, right? Except this sappy pop song happened to be Woburn High's Class of 1990 senior prom theme, and coming across it triggered a crippling bout of mnemonic nausea. Willful suppression only goes so far where memories of adolescent angst are concerned. [...]
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