i can't remember...... when?

this excerpt from Milli Vanilli and the Scapegoating of the Inauthentic should explain it pretty well, have fun, theanthem!

by Ted Friedman
Bad Subjects, Issue # 9, November 1993

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In the summer of 1990, the American music industry performed a bizarre ritual. At a press conference, it was announced that the winners of that year's 'Best New Artist' award, Milli Vanilli, had had their prize revoked for misrepresenting their contributions to their own music; it had been discovered (though there was never much of a secret about it) that the group's putative members, Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan, had not performed any of the vocals on their album. (The vocals were actually performed by Charles Shaw, John Davis, and Brad Howe.) Vanilli quickly became a running joke in mass culture. Rob and Fab appeared in a self-mocking chewing-gum commercial, lip-synching the Care-Free jingle. A class-action suit was filed, and eventually purchasers of Girl You Know It's True were given the opportunity to mail off for a rebate for fraud damages. And in 1991, Rob Pilatus attempted suicide by jumping out of his Beverly Hill Hotel suite. Milli Vanilli today are little more than a fading joke and a trivia question. (A comback album last year by Rob and Fab, featuring their own voices, predictably sank without a trace.) Although they'd sold ten million albums and scored five Top Five singles (including three Number Ones), their hit songs have been erased from the oldies playlists of radio stations across the nation. The only place I've come across any trace of Milli Vanilli in the past few years was on a recent episode of Beavis and Butthead, where the dazed metalheads could only stare in utter incomprehension at the two dancing, dreadlocked men on the screen.

Rob Pilatus is dead! I didn't know that he tried to kill himself by jumping out of a window! I do know that he was succesful in killing himself with pills not long after.

The Grammy's are for people who don't know anything about music, and just want to go buy whatever is popular. I don't care much for all the people mentioned in the begining of this thread because I believe they're all puppets of powerful record exec's, and even if they are talanted, it's shoved down my throat with rotten sugar and broken glass.....

I for one, don't believe that I should like anything just because it's "hot". I'm not gonna go sportin' a trucker hat and start dressin like a Hipster while I listen to the new singer songwriter young model, as I sip on a trendy new coffee drink. Nora Jones? She didn't even write those damn songs she won all the awards for. It's almost like she's a model who showed up for the casting and could sing songs that were already written.....

To be fair a lot of great artists don't write their songs. I cases such as those though I think the award should go to ALL involved and not just the frontman/woman