The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story

The other reviews here are odd. I found this documentary to be informative and super interesting. Obviously it is going to be a little biased, like every documentary is. However, it is also obvious that this is not just a shot at revenge for the boy banders that speak, but more of a warning. Plus, the scope of the fraudulent activities go way past just the boy bands and are well covered and explained within the film. I was left wondering if I had missed something at some points but overall it was well worth watching. These kinds of stories are fascinating to me because they are things you would think everyone should know about, yet until a documentary like this comes out most people are oblivious and there are lots of life lessons to be learned in events like these.

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.

Even though I'm not necessarily a fan of the bands I do enjoy a good music documentary and this is one of the better music documentaries I've seen lately. Very informative and has a great behind-the-scenes feel to it. Definitely worth a watch either if you like the fans or just for a good music documentary.

At some point you get the feeling one of his artist must have produced this and low and behold....Lance Bass. Well, what was mentioned very quickly was that Mr. Pearlman Bought a talent agency (who he un knowingly) was under investigation and that when the FBI starts spying on him etc. Because he bought a company that had a bad track record.

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.