‘Milli Vanilli’ Documentary Review: Pop Music’s Biggest Con

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‘Milli Vanilli’ Documentary Review: Pop Music’s Biggest Con
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In a new Paramount+ documentary, surviving member Fab Morvan reflects on the Grammy-winning duo’s infamous lip-syncing scandal.

Satan is evil, but that doesn’t absolve people of willingly agreeing to Faustian bargains—a lesson hammered home by, a new Paramount+ documentary about the infamous singing duo whose rocket-ship ride to stardom wound up crashing and burning after they were outed as lip-syncing frauds.

Director Luke Korem’s feature-length film certainly spreads the blame around, beginning with producer Frank Farian and ending with, whom Arista Senior VP Ken Levy states was aware of Milli Vanilli’s phoniness.

Cracks initially began materializing at a July 21, 1989 show in Bristol, Connecticut, where their vocal track got stuck in a loop. It wasn’t until after they won their Grammy, however, that the Milli Vanilli train raced off the tracks, thanks to Farian—in response to Rob trying to blackmail the producer into letting them sing on their follow-up record—publicly copping to his own trick.

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