1990 SPECIAL REPORT: “MILLI VANILLI“

Lip-syncing exposure and media backlash, 1989–1991 Beth McCarthy-Miller, 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 records.[18] The first public sign that the group was lip-syncing 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 it’s...“ 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 stage.“ Downtown Julie Brown ran after Pilatu