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...hoped its knock-off would be the next Friends, lavished it with publicity and ran it on a premium Thursday-night time slot. Viewers merely shrugged, while critics savaged it. Comparing it to the British version, which airs on BBCA, the New York Times wrote, "Coupling is the Milli Vanilli of network television: the sitcom equivalent of lip-synching someone else's song." Yet BBC America is capitalizing. Thanks to the notoriety of Coupling, and hits like The Office, Lee says, BBCA "more than doubled" its revenues from last year in the latest up-front market for ad sales...
...however, that Big Boi reveals his emotional flexibilty, a far more noble goal than mere stylistic variation. The track is a gilded prison of sumptuously layered electro-orchestration and bongo breaks, distant blips and nostalgic raps (“When I found that Santa Claus was nothing more than Vanilli, it was silly...”) riding on booming bass swells. Finally, the inclusion of Goodie Mob veteran Cee-Lo on “Reset” shows far more design than most of the posse collaborations on Speakerboxxx (the Jigga-enhanced “Flip Flop Rock...
...talent contest for faded stars--one like American Idol, last summer's smash hit, but with the added pathos of careers in decline? The grand prize would be a recording contract and perhaps the start of a comeback. Tiffany's competitors? Oh, Fuller wants no less than Vanilli, the surviving member of the duo Milli Vanilli (infamous for secretly miming its songs), and Vanilla Ice, the formerly huge white rapper...
...routinely described as, well, goofy, the kind of guy who, when he realized he had no music, clipped the Wall Street Journal's list of top-100 CDs and bought them all, an abdication of judgment that sometimes leaves the couple's dinner parties sound-tracked by Milli Vanilli...
...Words: Milli Vanilli...