So he died in prison, I also remember he also created O-Town and they along with Backstreet Boys, Nsync sued him for lost royalties.....a nasty piece of work by the sounds of it. http://www.people.com/art...rlman-dead

He ripped off the BSB too

luv4u said:

He ripped off the BSB too

Yuuuuup he was like the Bernie Madoff of the pop world http://www.tampabay.com/n...to/2254409

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I saw a very creepy documentary about him on Discovery ID. Hate to say it but karma's a bitch.

SPYZFAN1 said:

I saw a very creepy documentary about him on Discovery ID. Hate to say it but karma's a bitch.

Yep

Lou Pearlman & Transcontinental Records were basically the dance pop version of Suge Knight & Death Row Records.

I shit you not!

TonyVanDam said:

Lou Pearlman & Transcontinental Records were basically the dance pop version of Suge Knight & Death Row Records.

I shit you not!

Yuuuuuuup

A couple of years ago, I watched the BSB documentary they did themselves. I am a lifelong Nsync fan, but I love music docs in general, so I wanted to see this one. All their stories were interesting, but the walking through Pearlman's old mansion was compelling. I'm sure for them it was surreal on a whole other level.

While I don't wish death on anyone, I cannot say I'm upset by Pearlman's passing. He was the worst of the worst when it came to business, or simply being human. He died where he deserved to spend the last miserable years of his life - in a cell, poor, and without anything. It's how he left a lot of the groups he worked with. Whether you like boy bands or otherwise is not the argument here. The argument is about a grown man taking great advantage of young boys and young men, repeatedly. To me, it was molestation without the touching. Although... Nope. I won't go there.

I do not remember BSB's battle much, but I do remember Nsync's story being such big news, coupled with the release of No Strings Attached, and it shooting to #1 in its first week out. One would think all that bad press 24/7 would have really dented their careers, but it did the opposite. It made them into the biggest band in the world, at that moment. They only grew from there, and graced six RollingStone covers (one for each member, and one group shot) during the Celebrity years before going on hiatus.

Pearlman was finally stopped. Permanently, and I was glad to see him go to prison over his greed. Frankly, Suge Knight was his photo negative and doppelganger. It's a bit like those Twix commercials for the left side or the right side of the same candy bar. Both think they're incredibly different, but they are exactly the same.

TrivialPursuit said:

A couple of years ago, I watched the BSB documentary they did themselves. I am a lifelong Nsync fan, but I love music docs in general, so I wanted to see this one. All their stories were interesting, but the walking through Pearlman's old mansion was compelling. I'm sure for them it was surreal on a whole other level.

While I don't wish death on anyone, I cannot say I'm upset by Pearlman's passing. He was the worst of the worst when it came to business, or simply being human. He died where he deserved to spend the last miserable years of his life - in a cell, poor, and without anything. It's how he left a lot of the groups he worked with. Whether you like boy bands or otherwise is not the argument here. The argument is about a grown man taking great advantage of young boys and young men, repeatedly. To me, it was molestation without the touching. Although... Nope. I won't go there.

I do not remember BSB's battle much, but I do remember Nsync's story being such big news, coupled with the release of No Strings Attached, and it shooting to #1 in its first week out. One would think all that bad press 24/7 would have really dented their careers, but it did the opposite. It made them into the biggest band in the world, at that moment. They only grew from there, and graced six RollingStone covers (one for each member, and one group shot) during the Celebrity years before going on hiatus.

Pearlman was finally stopped. Permanently, and I was glad to see him go to prison over his greed. Frankly, Suge Knight was his photo negative and doppelganger. It's a bit like those Twix commercials for the left side or the right side of the same candy bar. Both think they're incredibly different, but they are exactly the same.

BSB had a documentary? I need to see that as one of their biggest fans here

paisleypark4 said:

BSB had a documentary? I need to see that as one of their biggest fans here

Yep, on Netflix.

"Bye Bye Bye" slimeball! Thanks for all the awful forgettable music and the terrible celebrities that you cultivated while you were ripping them off. Long live Joey FatOne, narrator of The Price Is Right.

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Sidebar "Legacy Recordings" recently "celebrated" NSync's album Celebrity as one of the biggest selling albums ever and the comments were so fun because no one could recall any of the tunes from the album.

StrangeButTrue said:

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Sidebar "Legacy Recordings" recently "celebrated" NSync's album Celebrity as one of the biggest selling albums ever and the comments were so fun because no one could recall any of the tunes from the album.

That's actually kind of odd. No Strings Attached sold almost 2.5M the first week out. That was 2000, still an age of Napster, Kazoo (or whatever it was called), and countless others, and downloading in its prime. And before internet digital sales of albums counted much, or if at all. That's a huge amount of albums to move in a first week release. It outsold Celebrity (released only a year later), by over twice as much. Celebrity sold around 5M in the US. I'm not sure how that is bigger than the 12M+ NSA sold just the year prior. I'd have to agree that more people know "Bye Bye Bye", "It's Gonna Be Me", or "God Must Have Spent a Little More Time On You" more than "Up Against The Wall", "Gone" (a hit), "Girlfriend" (a hit),"The Two Of Us", or even "Pop" (a huge hit).

I do like the Celebrity album, but as with any album, there's often a good amount of filler. Same with NSA, but I do think NSA was a stronger and more focused record. Yet Celebrity had a more defined sound; "dirty pop" as Kirkpatrick described it.

Say what you want about boy bands, but they - like any act - has their place in history. I mean, 12M+ records sold in 2000 is nothing to sneeze at.

TonyVanDam said:

Lou Pearlman & Transcontinental Records were basically the dance pop version of Suge Knight & Death Row Records.

I shit you not!

Except I don't recollect Suge sexually abusing his acts.

jjam said:

TonyVanDam said:

Lou Pearlman & Transcontinental Records were basically the dance pop version of Suge Knight & Death Row Records.

I shit you not!

Except I don't recollect Suge sexually abusing his acts.

I mean, abuse is abuse. But I wouldn't be surprised to hear about an intern or a secretary being harassed or abused sexually from Suge or those around him.

jjam said:

TonyVanDam said:

Lou Pearlman & Transcontinental Records were basically the dance pop version of Suge Knight & Death Row Records.

I shit you not!

Except I don't recollect Suge sexually abusing his acts.

Not sexual abuse per se, but Suge did convince Michel'le to F*** For Tracks. According to Danny Boy, Michel'le has an one night stand with 2pac first and then she hooked up with Suge a few years later, all of this behind her then-boyfriend & first baby daddy Dr.Dre's back of course.

http://www.vanityfair.com...lman200711

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This is a fascinating read about Mr. Trans Continental, the jet story is something else.

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http://www.newyorker.com/...an-created

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This postmortem examination of Pearlman's impact brings up a lot of interesting points.

TonyVanDam said:

jjam said:

Except I don't recollect Suge sexually abusing his acts.

Not sexual abuse per se, but Suge did convince Michel'le to F*** For Tracks. According to Danny Boy, Michel'le has an one night stand with 2pac first and then she hooked up with Suge a few years later, all of this behind her then-boyfriend & first baby daddy Dr.Dre's back of course.

Nah... she's more like the Death Row Yoko Ono

Cinny said:

TonyVanDam said:

Not sexual abuse per se, but Suge did convince Michel'le to F*** For Tracks. According to Danny Boy, Michel'le has an one night stand with 2pac first and then she hooked up with Suge a few years later, all of this behind her then-boyfriend & first baby daddy Dr.Dre's back of course.

Nah... she's more like the Death Row Yoko Ono

Goddess4Real said:

So he died in prison, I also remember he also created O-Town and they along with Backstreet Boys, Nsync sued him for lost royalties.....a nasty piece of work by the sounds of it. http://www.people.com/art...rlman-dead

He cheated LFO too. One of the ex-members, Rich Cronin (RIP) did an interview with Howard Stern several years ago, going into detail about how shady and super-creepy Lou was.

Hideous fool.