{"id":74069,"date":"2020-05-11T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74069"},"modified":"2020-05-08T09:10:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T14:10:28","slug":"bad-timing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74069","title":{"rendered":"Bad Timing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was working in clubs and Top40 radio when Milli Vanilli rose, conquered&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;and slinked a way in a cloud of shame when it became known that they hadn&#8217;t sung their album, and had lip-synched their &#8220;live&#8221; performances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it was <a href=\"https:\/\/getpocket.com\/explore\/item\/30-years-later-the-great-milli-vanilli-hoax?utm_source=pocket-newtab\">about this time thirty years ago that the &#8220;scandal&#8221; blew up<\/a>, wrecking the careers of most everyone involved&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;and about 3-5 years before it became pretty clear that it was more the rule than the exception in top-40 pop music, and probably ten years before technology started doing the things that Milli Vanilli&#8217;s producer had to get humans to do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just saying &#8211; had Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan come along ten years later, they&#8217;d still be megastars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was working in clubs and Top40 radio when Milli Vanilli rose, conquered&#8230; &#8230;and slinked a way in a cloud of shame when it became known that they hadn&#8217;t sung their album, and had lip-synched their &#8220;live&#8221; performances. And it was about this time thirty years ago that the &#8220;scandal&#8221; blew up, wrecking the careers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74071,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74069\/revisions\/74071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}