The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story

Found it very interesting and appealing. Didn't know so much about the back story of those two popular bands (and of the other ones) until now. Know I guess I'm a bit more knowledgeable about this :). Oh, and I finally know why the "Bye Bye Bye" song is titled this way. Cool documentary, with great insights, after all.

Amazing documentary, but it fails to focus more on how he tricked all those people and how much money he actually stolen. It is more focused on his personality and how people close to him perceived him as a person. His personality trait to always brag, talk too much and always be at your service is red flag in the any kind of the business. Also I thought I'd see more of the FBI investigation and a more detailed explanation of his fraud. I'm coming from music business and his contract agreement between artists, and him as an manager, is basically how all the contracts in music business look. Even big artists like Taylor swift signed that same contract. I'm not saying this is normal but you should investigate more that side of music as a business. There would be some interesting facts, and you will find out that record labels and a bunch of other people were profiting with no work at all on these bands, while those bands were doing all the hard work. Then you will understand where he find his ideas for fooling people and stealing money.

I enjoyed it, the story was cohesive, there was a diverse group of people talking about what happened, it kept me engaged. This things need to be told so everybody can protect themselves in this kind of situation.

The Boy Bands were basically, now that we get to really see what their only real talent was, barbershop quartets/quintets with drum machines manufacturing songs written by professionals... musicians other than the boys themselves, who were handed big deals but, so it seems in the case of The Backstreet Boys and NSYNC, their deals weren't big enough...

Making the most intriguing aspect take place during the first part in which we learn of the rise of these two very famous groups (on the heels of New Kids on the BLock) alongside their founding manager Lou Pearlman, who made money with blimps, or airplanes, or something...

It's after both boy bands sue the central figure Pearlman does the documentary get a bit dry and uninteresting, mainly because the leftover groups that Pearlman created never made any kind of lasting impression... in fact, they weren't even worthy enough to make fun of, and hardly even register on the pop culture conscience...

Since this was produced by Lance Bass, there should have been more info centering on those two big bands and Pearlman's connection with them, and then leave the last half of the third/final episode about all the people he ripped off instead of that stuff being dragged through one and a half episodes...

Either way, this wasn't a bad doc, and filled the time nicely... but didn't stick to the things that people would actually care (or know) about.

"The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story" is a bittersweet and frustrating film that will either get you to feel bad for Lou Pearlman or make your blood boil. . In this documentary, a look at the rise and fall of boy band manager Lou Pearlman, who not only discovered NSYNC and Backstreet Boys, but set up one of the largest ponzi schemes ever. . After hearing about this story years ago, I thought it was smart to make a doc about the situation. Lou Pearlman was one of those guys you couldn't hate but deep down a twisted individual. I enjoyed this film and I think it covered most of the ground you'd be interested in hearing about. I did think it was repetitive at times but none the less captivating. You can now stream it for free on YouTube. . Follow @snobmedia for more reviews!