#Rob Pilatus

[jodielandons]

MILLI VANILLI (2023) dir. Luke Korem | This moment in the doc really stuck with me. Imagine being a poor, abused, orphaned black child in Germany in the 80s who finally got one opportunity to follow your dreams. Your dreams ended up being exploited for a white couple's gain. Then when you lose the little success you had, you're berated by a British white man.

@jodielandons BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2024 FILM SERIES

[blckvenuz]

[hollywoodroses]

me dancing to milli vanilli music

[hollyqueue]

All or Nothing

[purvlereign]

[mr-dead-inside]

Milli Vanilli - Girl You Know It's True

[Music Video] 1989

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Fab Morvan (left) and Rob Pilatus (1965 - 1998) of Franco-German R&B duo, Milli Vanilli, Gun Wharves, Wapping, London, 27th September 1988.

📸 Michael Putland/Getty Images

[randomrichards]

MILLI VANILLI:

Dancers turned pop stars

Make it big based on a lie

Sleazy producer

[freshlyblaked]

1989 promo cd art for maximum milli vanilli - the hits that shook the world

[haveacupofjohanny]

Saturday Reads: Unpacking the Milli Vanilli Documentary – A Story of Deception, Racism, and Redemption

Time to rethink who we blame and who we protect. Watched the Milli Vanilli documentary, and it’s eye-opening. Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan took the fall while the powerful stayed protected—a painful reminder of the exploitation in the music industry.

Sometimes, history remembers a scandal more than the people behind it. The recent documentary Milli Vanilli, directed by Luke Korem, reopens the chapter on the infamous music duo with a fresh, empathetic perspective that questions who really shouldered the blame. While most remember Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan as the disgraced “lip-syncing” duo of the late ’80s and early ’90s, this documentary…

[blckvenuz]

[hollywoodroses]

Girl You Know It's True (2023)

[hollyqueue]

Reporter: Despite the fact that that you felt you were threatened ---

Rob: "FELT"?!

Milli Vanilli press conference, November 20, 1990, Full (Youtube)

After Rob tells the press that they were threatened from high places for trying to stop the lies, a reporter downplays the threats and tries to shame them for accepting Grammys they were made to accept.

"We don't understand that it's us, the two little guys from Germany, the victims, [who are] suddenly the crooks"

[purvlereign]

the category is face.

[sbrown82]

I gotta see this! Milli Vanilli and the whole scandal was huge when I was a kid. But their first mistake was signing a contract without legal advice. “Blame It on the Rain” was my sh*t tho! 🥴😆

MILLI VANILLI (2023) dir. Luke Korem | This moment in the doc really stuck with me. Imagine being a poor, abused, orphaned black child in Germany in the 80s who finally got one opportunity to follow your dreams. Your dreams ended up being exploited for a white couple's gain. Then when you lose the little success you had, you're berated by a British white man.

@jodielandons BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2024 FILM SERIES

[vivianbernadetteaurora]

Sad story ,milli Vanilli

These two had a deal set up with a record executive, which was really embarrassing for them🧑‍💼, because, they were models and actors, mainly modelling they were doing and they signed a contract that they didn’t really know much about. The front, visual for this group., while other people, sang their lyrics, to be honest I think things like this is set up for humiliation rituals, because you think of people like Ashley Simpson, where she had the track play on Saturday night and we haven’t really seen her since and then they did the same thing with, the track kept repeating itself, rob and Fab , two German immigrants , who had very similar lives they were like twins to each other , because they had very similar experiences , unfortunately , Rob ended up dying in 1998 , after the downfall and having their Grammy taken back , he went into a very dark place for a long time , which is understandable , . He was accused of sexual battery as well which I’m going to look into more because that sounds absolutely aw , he also went out with my favourite model Bobbie Brown .

If she thinks she was a good person, I tend to agree but we don’t know the end of an out of the situation , fab is still about he’s done a few interviews with Vlad TV which are for watch and I believe there’s a biopic , once I’ve watched it, I will come back and write some more ,, for Rob Pilatis, was such a beautiful looking man his eyes are amazing