![]() “For ‘Bye Bye Bye’, Justin wanted something exciting and dynamic car chases,” Isham notes. They eventually met in person during one of the band’s dance rehearsals. ![]() ‘Let’s do something big and crazy and filmic!’ It really allowed them to express their personalities far more so than some of their earlier videos.”Īt the onset of planning for the marionette-themed clips for the first two singles off No Strings Attached, Isham initially spoke with quintet over the phone. I think it was a great way for them to express themselves. And they all enjoyed it! They all wanted that. “It brought …I almost hate to use the term ‘out of their box’ here. “Our thought process was, let’s do something fun that’s not too much of a pose,” Isham recalls. ![]() It was only a matter of time before *NSYNC, eager to take their star status to the next level with 2000 sophomore LP No Strings Attached, came calling. The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story is available on YouTube Premium.The 100 Greatest Songs of 2000: Staff Picks “Yes, people can get called out a lot easier and quicker these days and the temperature is definitely cooling down, but there will always be people out there trying to take advantage of young entertainers.” “It is a cautionary tale that we have to keep reminding ourselves of,” says Bass. Yet he always believed he was due all the money he grabbed: these were all his ideas and he was the one bankrolling them. His career ended in involuntary bankruptcy and he died in a federal correctional institution in Florida, the state that was once his fiefdom, in August 2016. When his house of cards and Ponzi schemes crashed down around him, Pearlman fled to Indonesia, but was spotted by German tourists in Bali and arrested by the FBI. “I would have definitely thought we would need to renegotiate as even that was ridiculously low for what we were supposed to get at that point.” If Pearlman had given them each $100,000 instead of $10,000 at that fateful dinner, would this have changed things? “It definitely would have prolonged his business with us,” Bass says. “What we wanted to show is that the adults in the room were also duped,” Bass explains. Pearlman understood that charming the parents was key to putting the groups under his spell. There are strong echoes of Leaving Neverland, the documentary about Michael Jackson’s alleged abuses. And if he hadn’t taken advantage of them, they would have.” “I think he wanted those boys to see him that way, too. “I think deep down in his heart that’s what he really wanted to be – the sixth member of the group,” she says. ![]() Timberlake has rarely spoken about Pearlman, although his mother Lynn Harless appears, humanising Pearlman. Bass said he was not approached to participate as “we already had three ‘NSync members in the film”, which seems a somewhat flimsy reason. “That felt pretty darn violating,” she says.Ĭonspicuous by his absence is Justin Timberlake, the only Pearlman artist to transcend his boyband roots with a successful solo career. Nikki DeLoach of Innosence (Pearlman’s only girlband, which briefly counted a pre-fame Britney Spears as a member) claims that he covertly filmed them naked on the sunbed at his house to show members of his boybands as part of a bizarre bonding ritual. It also draws on archive footage from Howard Stern’s radio show where Rich Cronin of LFO, who died in 2010, claimed that Pearlman asked the group to fondle his penis as “practice” for meetings with German music executives, though it is not suggested any of them ever did. The documentary features Bass talking about how Pearlman gave him massages: “He was very touchy-feely … It always felt a little like, ‘OK, I know what you are doing.’” As with Tam Paton and the Bay City Rollers, there was a darker side. He wanted to be a father figure to the groups he recruited through open auditions, which he personally funded, but he also wanted to hang out with younger people to indulge his big-kid tendencies. Having relocated from New York to Orlando, Pearlman began styling himself as Big Poppa, a man in search of a family as much as he was in search of money. Successful solo careers … Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake.
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