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tEem21today at 10:40 AM0 repliesview on HN

I also believe the Milli Vanilli argument to be flawed, but the other way around: music videos were all the rage back then and the two supposed singers were actually just performers for the cameras. Does this mean they had no part in the success of the music? I don't believe that. That's not to say they were right in misleading the public and their fans, but it seems to me that Milli Vanilli was a fruitful combination of the public-facing performers and the musical process behind them. Everyone is fine with ghostwriters, why is this so different? The entertainment industry is fake through and through, but nobody is actually taking offense from this fact. I often wondered if a similar project could find success if it were presented differently, as a cooperation of musicians and performers