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Rob & Fab: Rob & Fab (Joss Entertainment) **; Try n' Be: Try n' Be (RCA) **

Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 10 June 1993

MILLI VANILLI is pop music's answer to baseball's 1919 Chicago Black Sox — the group's scandal will forever overshadow the way it outperformed so much of the competition during its year of glory. On the way to buy groceries in 1989, 'Girl I'm Gonna Miss You' and 'All or Nothing' didn't sound all that different from Bobby Brown's hits, certainly no less spirited. If the underhanded route the duo took up the charts wasn't exactly showbiz as usual, it was hardly unheard-of.

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