I know that you’ve already got some prejudices in your mind when I say the words Milli and Vanilli. I’m certainly not saying that you’re wrong. I have these very same prejudices. I wonder though, who has actually listened to the album? I don’t remember listening to it ever. Not even their songs title are familiar to me. It’s kind of strange.
I thought that the fairest way to review this album would be to review Milli Vanilli on their musical merits. What else can you do really? I know it’s hard to come to this album without any baggage, but I’ll give it my best shot.
Their fall from grace is well known (two models front a band of faceless musicians – Grammy awards are stripped from them, they become a cautionary tale). But what was the album actually like? I’m not opposed to a bit of trashy euro-pop every now and then, and that’s pretty much what I was expecting to find on this album. A fairly decent album of euro-pop.
Strangely, after listening to this album I still can’t tell you anything about it. None of the songs stood out. It was pretty terrible from start to finish. I thought that I would remember the big single from the album (whatever that was…) but even after listening to the whole album I’m none the wiser. Surely that was played on the radio in 1990. The album got to number 1 for god’s sake! But I’ve got nothing.
My working theory is that back in the 90s the backlash started not because Milli Vanilli were lip synching, but because the world collectively woke up and realised that they’d been conned. Not because they didn’t sing. But more that we’d been forced to listen.
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