Lejitkan Backstreet Boys Dan NSYNC, Lou Pearlman Mengubah Industri Pop Dengan Tipu Muslihat

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JAKARTA - The 90s era became a momentum for the rise of boybands in the international arena. If in the 60s there is the name The Jackson 5 or Osmonds, the new era is marked by the birth of Backstreet Boys, then followed by NSYNC afterwards.

The two well-known boybands from the United States were formed and skyrocketed by a businessman named Lou Pearlman. Their popularity brought waves of boybands in the late 90s to early 2000s.

The entrepreneur is known as a great businessman who is able to establish relationships with important people and has the authority. Investors also came to have hopes for Lou's students who started all from Orlando.

In his heyday, Lou confidently said the boyband era would never end. "The boyband era will only end when God stop creating teenage girls," he said in the Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam broadcast on Netflix.

He really dictated pop music at the time with the success of Backstreet Boys and NSYNC. At the same time, he also runs various businesses under the name Trans Continual, ranging from restaurants, artist management, airlines, and many more.

Unfortunately, behind the influence wave he made in the pop music scene, it turned out that he did a lot of tricks. He became a fugitive from the FBI because he was suspected of committing fraud in the ponzi scheme.

This case is also one of the biggest ponzi scheme scams in history in the United States. In theties, representatives of Backstreet Boys, NSYNC and Natural members gave their testimony regarding the figure they nicknamed 'Big Poppa'.

Lou Pearlman died in 2016 after failing to undergo health procedures. Until now, the debt of hundreds of millions of dollars has only been paid 10 million.