1990 SPECIAL REPORT: MILLI VANILLI

Lipsyncing exposure and media backlash, 19891991 Beth McCarthyMiller, then an executive with MTV, says the duo s English language skills, when they came in for their first interview with the channel, stirred doubts among those present as to whether they had sung on their The first public sign that the group was lipsyncing came on 21 July 1989, during a live performance on MTV at the Lake Compounce theme park in Bristol, Connecticut. As they performed, a hard drive issue caused the recording of the song Girl You Know It s True to jam and skip, repeatedly playing the partial line Girl, you know through the speakers. I knew right then and there, it was the beginning of the end for Milli Vanilli, recalled Pilatus of the incident. When my voice got stuck in the computer, and it just kept repeating and repeating, I panicked. I didn t know what to do. I just ran off the Downtown Julie Brown ran after Pilatu