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Reality Life with Kate Casey

Ep. - 1045 - DIRTY POP: THE BOY BAND SCAM

Reality Life with Kate Casey

Kate Casey

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4.47K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Lance Nichols and Michael Johnson, Executive Producers of Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam, a three-part Netflix docuseries. Backstreet Boys. NSYNC. Lou Pearlman created the biggest boy bands of the '90s — and one of the largest Ponzi schemes in history. 

  

  

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The Amazing Kate C.K-C-C-C!

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Welcome back for another episode of Reality Life with Kate-KC.

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Hope that you're having a great start to the week,

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and I've got a great episode for you.

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In this episode, I cover Netflix three-part docueries, Dirty Pop, The Boy Band

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Scam. In the 1990s, Lou Perlman was arguably the most powerful and influential music industry mogul since Barry Gordy.

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He launched several popular boy bands and pop acts including the Backstreet Boys and In Sink.

1:10.9

He turned his music label into a factory mass-producing pop acts tailored for teens.

1:17.0

He usually became fascinated with the success of new kids on the block who had made hundreds of millions of dollars in record,

1:24.8

tour, and merchandise sales and became the number one ban of its time.

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He started Transcontinental Records with the goal of creating his own boy band business model.

1:35.0

The record labels first band, the Backstreet Boys, consisted of five unknown performers

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