Gotta blame it on Netflix. Grammy-winning producer/composer NomaD has put a recent spin on Milli Vanilli‘s legendary 1989 Billboard Scorching 100 No. 1 hit “Blame It on the Rain,” giving the track an up to date island vibe groove to go along with his gritty lead vocals.
“Loving NomaD’s new model of ‘Blame It on the Rain.’ Gotta blame it on one thing,” stated the tune’s songwriter, 15-time Oscar nominee Diane Warren of the observe given a refresh by the artist born Damon Elliott, son of music legend Dionne Warwick. The track has blown up as soon as once more because of its distinguished placement within the hit Netflix drama Monster: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.
The newest installment in Ryan Murphy’s Monsters collection led to a 68% enhance in streaming exercise for “Blame It on the Rain,” within the interval between Sept. 13-16, with equally spectacular bumps for MV songs “Woman You Know It’s True” and “Woman I’m Gonna Miss You,” after the band’s three greatest hits had been closely featured within the first episode — whose title was additionally a nod to “Rain.”
“Rain” was popularized by German pop duo Milli Vanilli, whose Fab Morvan makes a cameo in a video posted by NomaD on Thursday (Oct. 3) hyping his remake. “NomaD is in the home, Fab is in the home, we about to make historical past bro,” says Morvan, sitting at a recording console in a studio with NomaD behind the mic. “ I’m prepared for this man, let’s go,” responds NomaD, as Morvan cues up the track and Warren wanders and waves to the singer in a candy, blink-and-you-missed-it cameo.
Milli Vanilli shot to international fame within the late Eighties with a trio of Scorching 100 No. 1 hits earlier than being embroiled in a lip synching scandal that resulted of their finest new artist Grammy Award being revoked, marking the primary time in historical past that the Recording Academy took again a Grammy. The duo — which additionally included late member Rob Pilatus — had been the topic of director Luke Korem’s Milli Vanilli 2023 biopic, which in a poignant accident has been submitted for contemplating in the very best movie class for the Feb. 4, 2025 Grammy Awards; this author seems within the movie however was not concerned within the manufacturing or advertising.
Watch NomaD’s “Blame It on the Rain” video beneath.
