Dirty Pop : The Boy Band Scam
Psych Legal Pop Podcast
Tess & Brooke Brigham
4.2 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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In this episode we discuss the new Netflix docuseries Dirty Pop about Lou Pearlman, the inventor of the "boy band." Years later it was discovered that not only was Pearlman ripping off his famous proteges, he was also stealing from friends, family, and anyone else he could convince to invest in his massive Ponzi scheme to fund his lavish lifestyle.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, welcome to the Psych Legal Pop podcast. This is a podcast where we talk about popular culture through the lens of an attorney and a therapist. I'm Brooke Brigham. I'm the attorney. And I'm Tess Brigham. I'm the therapist. And today we are going to be talking about a new documentary of Netflix and it's called Dirty Pop, the Boy Band Scam. |
| 0:23.8 | And this is about Lou Pearlman, who basically invented the American boy band. |
| 0:31.6 | Did he? |
| 0:33.3 | Well, the modern... |
| 0:34.2 | Or capitalized on it. |
| 0:36.1 | Well, I mean, I don't know. |
| 0:38.2 | I mean, I don't remember prior to like backstreet boys and NSYNC. |
| 0:44.3 | There was new kids on the block. |
| 0:46.2 | No, there was new kids on the block. |
| 0:48.1 | That was kind of the big boy band. |
| 0:49.5 | Forget everything I said. |
| 0:50.8 | This is not my genre. |
| 0:52.7 | Well, and that's the other thing, too, is when I was watching |
| 0:56.2 | this was that it's interesting because I think we have a very different take than someone who was, |
| 1:01.4 | you know, 20 years younger than us. Because. Or even 10 years. Yeah. I mean, we were so, right. I was like, |
| 1:09.6 | I was 27 or something or, you know what I mean, when these guys hit it big. |
| 1:15.0 | And I remember when in new kids on the block came out, I was already like in high school, you know, junior, senior, right? |
| 1:22.0 | I was all, I missed all of that. |
| 1:23.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:24.3 | I missed all of it. |
| 1:26.6 | All of the boy band. So I think we have a different. of the boy band I know is like the Jackson 5. |
| 1:31.3 | And Minuto. Oh, Minuto. Maybe the Osmans, you know. Yes, the Osmond's. Old school, old school. |
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