Peep Show: Playing Milli Vanilli At A Funeral?

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Dave & Chuck the Freak talk about a recent spike in people listening to Milli Vanilli after being featured in the 'Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story'. We also can't get over the fact that the accused apparently played Milli Vanilli at their parent's funeral.

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00:00and this is kind of bizarre but millie vanille songs are seeing a big resurgence

00:14and it's because it's being featured in something i've been listening to them a lot i know you have

00:21you said that uh the menendez brother oh no netflix movie i guess features a lot of their music

00:30what i mean they were big fans maybe they must have oh maybe so that's terrible brought them back

00:36around well at least one of them because one of them yeah uh here's the story on that

00:40they first exploded onto the music scene in the late 80s

00:45now more than 30 years later the infamous pop duo millie vanille once steeped in controversy

00:53is reaching a new audience

00:55with netflix's popular monsters the lyle and eric menendez story weaving their hits throughout the

01:06series in their words guilty girl i'm gonna miss you

01:10for fab morvan the only surviving member of the group

01:17i had to turn to the only person that could possibly understand

01:26my favorite moment oh my god the way you just looked at me

01:33oh my god

01:36what

01:37what on earth it seems like happened in that movie

01:42at their parents memorial did they play girl i'm gonna manily vanille's girl i'm gonna miss you

01:47i didn't see this who saw this they're obsessed with them like this they're obsessed

01:52i wish i would have watched guilty guilty i don't know anything about them i don't know

02:01i haven't seen this but come on i mean that's american psycho to me right that's america that's

02:07worse that's why i feel like they did it i i mean oh my god in their words girl i'm gonna miss you

02:16for fab morvan the only surviving member of the group

02:25watching the songs play out in the show when we're saying the resurgence of popularity

02:30has been exciting i watched the first episode and and it was like wow from the get-go the

02:35the music is in there you know and it took me back and i'm so excited that those songs are getting

02:40more attention according to billboard overall streams for the group's entire catalog jumped

02:45114 percent leaving that out on the release or do they forget they do it's here on the reigns

02:52seeing a 68 increase in streaming activity the group's meteoric rise to fame springing on the

02:58popularity of their debut album

03:00this guy is clearly not singing i know he doesn't even look like somebody in 1990 earning them a

03:12grammy for best new artist uh we want to say thank you very much but their success was short-lived

03:18with a lip-syncing scandal

03:23forcing them to return their reward nine months later and endure widespread backlash people were

03:29brutal we had no understanding of of the industry you know we just fell into this trap since the

03:35fallout morvan now vowing to honor his deceased music partner rob palatis and share the story of the

03:41music with a new generation i know what mili vinili did and still does it makes people feel it makes

03:48people smile so fab also tells us his passion for music has never stopped he says he's been out on the

03:55road performing across europe and africa even recording blame it on the rain with his own vocals

04:01he also has plans one day to release an acoustic version of the song please don't oh god so they never

04:08sang any of their stuff like it wasn't just like it wasn't just no way no i thought they had other

04:13singers like they had other singers there was something there was i don't know if they just

04:18came out he came out eventually one of them and was like look no we're gonna prove to you that we can

04:24sing it was not even close right to what it is i mean they were hired because at the time you could

04:33have a music video and become the biggest band in the world if you're me and they were like get two

04:40incredibly attractive guys put them on there they'll lip sync to this other person's music

04:47and they'll be like he really has nothing to do with the music at all it's crazy i guess they

04:54eventually did sing their own stuff but it was too late though yeah like that's but i mean come on i

04:59mean like that's nothing that you're they played in that show no one's listening to millie no they

05:05definitely played songs at their funeral they did so they played that song girl i'm gonna miss you for

05:09their mother and father because they loved their mother but hated their father i didn't know so that

05:15was real they did play girl i'm gonna miss you that's crazy by millie vanilli owning that cd is crazy

05:21like that's crazy jamming it with your bro in the car singing it on full blast is crazy for them to

05:29recreate that in a movie is crazy i wasn't ready and to play it at your parents funeral crazy after you

05:38killed them yeah with netflix's popular monsters the lyle and eric menendez story weaving their hits

05:49throughout the series in their words girl i'm gonna miss you

06:00that is how it happened so that is the craziest thing we've learned today because we haven't watched

06:06that yet no to think that someone would play millie vanilli at a funeral i'm sorry i don't know how

06:12you watch a whole documentary with two guys that are that into millie vanilli and think i don't think

06:18they did it i i think i mean i don't i can't i'm sorry like if i was on the jury i would have to be

06:23like i believe anyone who listens to millie vanilli and loves them that much i think they could possibly

06:29be killers so i'll just put that out there right now like i wouldn't you you would have had to

06:36really talk me out of that they'd be like dude it's something i'm like did you hear the millie

06:40millie vanilli part they're guilty

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