The grammys mean even less to me than the RRHOF.
I long for the good old days of Milli Vanilli.
Original handmade German folk music!
It was so embarrassing when they won (hardly a German act ever has a chance at the Grammys und then they pick these creeps of all people - why never Kraftwerk or Scorpions?) and such a gratification when it all fell apart as the hoax it had always obviously been.
Frank Farian, the producer/mastermind behind the silly Millis, was notorious in Germany for manufacturing make-believe acts and had zero musical credibility for it. Only one of the four members of his other brainchild - Boney M. - could actually ever sing and was heard on the recordings.
Now maverick producers presenting "bands" to sell music they have fabricated in the studio with other musicians or themselves (Farian played und sang a lot of stuff himself) are nothing new and nothing especially German, but for the Grammys to pick a product off the Frank Farian counter of disposable acts was one of life's bitter ironies. When I heard about it for the first time back then, my immediate thought was "ouch, this will all fly apart", it was like the legendary fake "Führer Diaries", an accident waiting to happen.
