Did you know there was a second Milli Vanilli album? If you'd read my Artist In Review article on the main bits of their discography, then you know the answer is yes. But did you know it was supposed to be an album with Rob and Fab? This is the original release single for "Keep On Running", from their intended second album of the same name, set to drop in January of 1991. It's hard to get a bead on exactly when this single was distributed, but since one of their first televised performances of the song happened days before Frank Farian's notorious press conference, it couldn't have been more than two weeks before Rob and Fab were outed.
Mind you, there isn't much noteworthy content on here. Two remixes, a radio mix only slightly shorter than the album version, and a B-side that ultimately made the album's final cut. As a strange footnote in Milli Vanilli's sketchy history, however, it's a goldmine of treasures. Look at that intended cover art for the second album! Look at how the catalog number matches the catalog number on The Moment Of Truth, the final version it was released as (under the partially-false moniker "The Real Milli Vanilli")! Just look at how it... exists! In the form that it does! It's crazy!
This single was quickly reissued with generic cover art with the artists listed as "The Real Voices Of Milli Vanilli". The contents were exactly the same, and there wasn't even any pictures of any of the "real voices" anywhere on the reissue version-- it was just reissued as such to save face. It was pretty clear that this was rushed out the door as Farian was still trying to figure out how to rebrand the material, which makes it another interesting testament to how rushed and patchwork the Milli Vanilli project was throughout its entire existence... but not interesting enough to me to make me wanna get it.
The tracklisting is as follows:
4. Keep On Running (Radio Version)
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| All of my media of Milli Vanilli's second album, juxtaposed at last. |
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