Milli Vanilli was a West German-based R&B, pop and dance music project created by Frank Farian in Munich in 1988. The group was formed with Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus. The group's debut album Girl You Know It's True achieved international success and earned them a Grammy Award for Best New Artist on 21 February 1990. Milli Vanilli became one of the most popular pop acts in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Their success turned to infamy when the Grammy award was withdrawn after Morvan, Pilatus and their agent Sergio Vendero confessed that Morvan and Pilatus did not actually sing any of the vocals heard on the record. The group recorded a comeback album in 1998, but Rob Pilatus died before the album was released.
According to VH1's Behind the Music, the single "Girl You Know It's True" was first produced by Jesse Powell and had already been completed before Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan were recruited. Frank Farian felt that no efforts should be focused on refining Pilatus and Morvan's voices. Farian added his own studio-augmented voice to recordings, using back-up singers to hide the other two members' voices live.
"So what are you doing back?"
"Well, I set back and thought about the things we used to do.
It really meant a lot to me, you mean a lot to me."
"I really mean that much to you?"
"Girl, you know it's true."
I'm in love with you girl 'cause you're on my mind,
you're the one I think about most every time.
And when you crack a smile in everything you do
don't you understand girl this love is true.
You're so sickin' hand, lone sweetin' thing,
that ? like poison up on your skin.
It lightens up my day and that's also true,
together we are one, seperated we are two.
To make it all mine, all mine is my desire,
cause you contain a quality, you that I admire.
To put it playin' simple, you rule my world,
so try to understand:
I'm in love girl, I'm so in love girl,
I'm just in love girl, and this is true.
Girl you know it's true,
uh uh uh, I love you.
Yes you know it's true,
uh uh uh, I love you.
Girl you know it's true,
my love - is for you.
Girl you know it's true,
my love - is for you.
This sizzling thing girl, I can't explain,
my emotions starts up when I hear your name.
Maybe a sweet, sweet voice would ring in my ear,
it stimulate my senses, girl when you are near.
And with your positive emotion love making enjoy,
there's no need to bust, it's like a girl and a boy.
These feelings I keep, I often wondering why,
so I thought I might discuss this girl, just you and I.
Now what you wear, I don't care,
how ? before, the reason that I like a girl is for what you are.
If I sit and think about it, you rule my world,
so try to understand:
I'm in love girl, I'm so in love girl,
I'm just in love girl, and this is true.
Girl you know it's true,
uh uh uh, I love you.
Yes you know it's true,
uh uh uh, I love you.
Girl you know it's true,
my love - is for you.
I'm in love with you girl, I'm in love with you girl [last word repeats]
I'm in love with you, I'm in love with you, I'm in love with you.
Girl you know it's true,
my love - is for you.
Girl you know it's true,
uh uh uh, I love you.
Yes you know it's true,