All of the greatest boy bands of the mid-ninties and the craze that accompanied them is the result of one man’s pervish, pedophilic obsession with teenage boys. Don’t you feel a little dirty, dear reader, now that you know you contributed to the victimization of young pop idols? Lou Pearlman was the mastermind behind the biggest bands of the nineties: *NSYNC and Backstreet Boys. Pearlman was also a pederast who preyed upon the young boys he managed.
“I would absolutely say the guy was a sexual predator. All the talent knew what Lou’s game was,” Steve Mooney, an aspiring singer who was Pearlman’s assistant, told VF’s Bryan Burrough. “Some guys joked about it. I remember [one singer] asking me, ‘Have you let Lou [fellate] you yet?’”
Every lovestruck teenage girl who bought a Backstreet Boys CD was helping Lou rape Nick Carter a little more. Every ticket sold ensured the repeated abuse of JC Chazez. Week after week, these bands occupied the top of the charts, in order that a sweaty, aging mogul could gobble their talented knobs. Every music video shot was not only designed to entice young girls to buy records, but served as masturbatory material for a greasy, bald kid toucher.
Nick’s mom, Jane Carter, wouldn’t get into specifics, but said, “Certain things happened and it almost destroyed our family. I tried to warn everyone. I tried to warn all the mothers . . . I tried to expose him for what he was years ago.”
The one piece of solace Re:Generator has is that Pearlman wasn’t able to victimize J Timbo. Due to his extreme fitness from his dance-fueled live show, Justin could easily use the power of dance to lull Pearlman into a trance and still have the energy to jump out a bathroom window. He didn’t make it out completely unscathed though, as Timberlake revealed in a 2006 Rolling Stone interview:
“I was being monetarily raped by a Svengali”.
