{"id":793824,"date":"2019-03-13T13:17:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T19:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=807696"},"modified":"2019-03-13T13:17:04","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T19:17:04","slug":"see-first-trailer-for-the-boy-band-con-the-lou-pearlman-story-doc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/see-first-trailer-for-the-boy-band-con-the-lou-pearlman-story-doc\/","title":{"rendered":"See First Trailer for \u2018The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story\u2019 Doc"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The story of boy band Svengali turned Ponzi schemer Lou Pearlman<\/a> is the focus of an upcoming YouTube documentary<\/a>. In the first trailer for The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story<\/em>, former boy banders discuss how, despite selling millions of records and selling out arenas, the mastermind behind the pop groups ripped off the young singers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThings were going great for us, this was going to be our first check presentation,\u201d N\u2019Sync\u2019s Lance Bass says in the trailer. \u201cI open up the envelope, I see the check and oh my gosh, my heart sunk. I couldn\u2019t believe the number I was looking at.\u201d<\/p>\n

Backstreet Boys<\/a>\u2019 A.J. McLean shares a similar anecdote, \u201cSomething isn\u2019t adding up. Lou\u2019s getting paid. Promoters are getting paid. Never in a million years thought a person that I entrusted my life with could do something like this. And then to find out how many other people this thing that he did affected.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story<\/em>, premiering today at SXSW ahead of its April 3rd debut on YouTube, features new interviews with Bass and McLean as well as N\u2019Sync\u2019s JC Chasez and Chris Kirkpatrick, O-Town\u2019s Ashley Parker Angel, Aaron Carter and Lynn Harless, Justin Timberlake\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story<\/em> is a documentary feature that tells the story of famed boy band impresario Lou Pearlman,\u201d YouTube added of the film. \u201cThe film tracks his life from his childhood in Queens, through discovering mega-bands *NSYNC and The Backstreet Boys, and chronicles his later life, including his perpetration of one of the largest Ponzi schemes in American history.\u201d Pearlman died<\/a> in prison while awaiting surgery following a cardiac arrest in August 2016.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The story of boy band Svengali turned Ponzi schemer Lou Pearlman is the focus of an upcoming YouTube documentary. In the first trailer for The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story, former boy banders discuss how, despite selling millions of records and selling out arenas, the mastermind behind the pop groups ripped off the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-793824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 10:18:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}