As a documentary, “Milli Vanilli” does something at once strategic, artful, and humane: It presents what happened to Milli Vanilli so that we empathize directly with these two young men…
, with their teenybop dreads and break-lite dance moves, getting up onstage and singing to prerecorded tracks, as if it had all been their idea. No, the brazen fakery of Milli Vanilli echoed, or at least rhymed with, various other kinds of fakery that were embedded in the music industry . This was certainly more extreme, and worthy of being called on the carpet for, but it wasn’t a stand-alone sin.
Did they make a big mistake? Yes. Were they complicit in a deception that was sleazy and greedy? Yes. But it fell short of being a crime, and by the end of the movie a wide circle of influence has been implicated: the Svengali who pulled the strings, a music industry full of people who saw through the ruse yet rationalized it away, and, in a sense, the public itself.
And the devil? That was the German songwriter and producer they hooked up with, Frank Farian, whose claim to fame was having founded the ’70s disco group Boney M. That gave him credibility, and Rob and Fab were so eager for fame that they signed the contract he shoved in their faces after barely reading it.
This wasn’t Frank Farian’s first fling with lip-syncing. As we learn, Boney M.’s lead singer, Bobby Farrell, was also a dancer who couldn’t sing; his concerts were all lip-synced. “Milli Vanilli” looks at how the layers of deception unfolded, taking the moral measure of what happened at every turn. The film presents interviews with Brad Howell and Charles Shaw, the singer and rapper who provided the actual vocals for “Girl You Know It’s True” and “Blame It on the Rain.
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