Review of the Pearlman Story on CBS' 60-Minutes (II)

Source: Backstreet.net readers

Holli wrote

    CBS's 60 minutes had an interview and clips of all the bands that were once and still with Lou
    Pearlman's management/record label. It told about the BSB suing them and they had an interview
    with BSB's new label mates, 'N Sync. They said their time was up for TransCon. They also
    showed clips of when BSB first started as well as them singing. The reporters said that the BSB
    didn't want to be interviewed or talk about them suing Lou Pearlman. Some of the others who
    appeared were: Take Five, C-Note, & LFO.

Rozush@aol.com wrote:

    Well what did they talk about? Of course how he created the BSB just for the money....it was
    straight out. How he was talking about Backstreet Boys, like money objects, he said ''We put it
    out there and if it works it does if it doesn't work well it doesn't'' or something like that....and
    he kinda admitted that almost all of the boy bands after the BSB were replicas, although 'N Sync
    claims that they were formed before he found them. [NOW don't be mad at me I am just saying
    what they said] So they talked about how the whole boy band thing worked, and then they
    showed some early BSB clips [the first ones that were not really seen a lot] So he basicly was
    sitting there laughing about it....saying "... well I just find them and sit back and relax as I see the
    world go crazy about them". He knows that once kids go crazy about boy bands they will spend
    lots of money on their merchandise.

    You should have seen me watching it with my mouth wide open mouth and my eyes nearly popping
    out of my head! So they mentioned the BSB dropping Lou and getting new management [she
    means a record company], and 'N Sync doing the same thing.

    For the last five minutes of the story they showed the newer bands that he has created like
    Take5, Innosence, C-Note and LFO. If they don't work out well the it's "bye bye kids we don't
    wanna bother with you anymore!"

    So if you watched it then you saw some cute BSB and 'N Sync clips as well as listening to
    Pearlman talking about our Backstreet Boys as just another money making machine...

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