I just didn't choose those lyrics wrong
with Lance Bass our buddy
you know some people say that was the
directors idea some people say it was
just a fad at the time you know like you
say baby it was actually according to
Justin it was max Martin that it was
like hey kind of like this like my and
it was born Max Martin one of the
biggest writers in the last 20 years
he's got his hands in pretty much every
song on the radio right now yeah let's
talk about the documentary the boy band
the Lou Pearlman story your producer on
this I think for Scott me and everybody
we saw y'all come in to massive success
know was there for all of it I remember
all the pictures and all of that how did
he first approached you well I mean he
was the president of our record label
and you know Crisco Patrick put the
group together and then he went to Lou
Pearlman and said hey would you support
us you know if you know I put a band
together and Lou said yeah I would
output money and you guys and so he
signed us to the Transcontinental record
deal he was our manager and in his
contracts he puts himself as the sixth
member of all his groups yeah why No
yeah yeah so he was and in the way he
sold it to us was like if I'm the sixth
member of your group you don't have to
pay a lawyer you don't have to pay a
management fee you don't to pay me as
the record you know label I will cover
all of that but you just give me a like
so basically it took 90% of everything
y'all's defense back then you don't know
when you're getting an opportunity to do
something when did your parents know
something um I think we all knew at the
same time and it was during our first
check presentation and we had been
working for three years and not gotten
paid a dime wait wait wait three years
and where was the success of the band at
that time we had sold over 10 million
records had number-one tours biggest
merchandise sold in the world
we were the the group was making
hundreds of millions of dollars so at
least you should have been paid a couple
minute don't know what that I don't know
what the thing was of course I was
thinking okay the check could be a
million dollars that we think
life-changing you know a
nineteen-year-old finally falling into
something like this you know and so I
was thinking okay million to be good the
lowest number of okay two hundred
thousand would change my life for sure
and then we open up the check
and it's $10,000 wait wait wait I mean
did you and the guys talk about before
that dinner you knew the cheque was
coming were you all kind of speculating
what it could be no cuz we didn't want
to it's you know money's weird
especially when you're like a kid you
don't feel like you are like deserve
anything because you have this great
career and everything's done for you and
you're like okay so you don't like to
talk about money it's kind of like an
icky things so we never really discussed
what that could possibly be but in your
head of course you thought about okay
this is the one thing I'm gonna go buy
oh yeah and then you get that 10,000
other checking like I can't get my
Toyota 4runner now right yeah so yeah so
it's just crazy to hear that because you
think about NSYNC affecting culture we
were trying to dress like y'all no
strings attached
I'm sorry about that it was like really
a thing and so to see this documentary
and to hear some of the stories that
were shared to me at one point y'all
were in a unaired conditioned airplane
hangar yeah for our Florida yeah because
you would learn you know we had to learn
how to sing and dance on a microphone
without being out of breath
so we would rehearse in this warehouse
that was 110 degrees every day for hours
and that's how we conditioned ourselves
and he not only was like a like a like a
thief but also kind of a creep he was
creepy yeah he don't have a creep effect
you know and he would do it was very
touchy-feely guy yeah you know so he's
always kind of giving you you know
shoulder rubs and all that and it just
it was definitely definitely creepy no
tell the story about he would do like a
PEC check or be like I can tell all the
guys you know if we had a photo shoot or
something like that he would you know he
he minored in physical therapy
he would always minor in lots of things
right and he could manipulate your
muscles to make it look like you you
know worked out so he would always be
trying to I mean the scenes did y'all
talk about this is a little creepy like
me I mean of course we would joke about
it but I never felt I mean it was a
little uncomfortable but I never felt
threatened or anything like that well
it's interesting because he also signed
Backstreet Boys yeah
and at first and so you guys signed on
with it with him and were at some point
pitted against each other how do they
well I mean I don't know what goes in
that mind of Lou Pearlman but what I'm I
would I would hope the brilliant mind of
Lou would think okay where there's coke
there needs to be Pepsi and if I
on both brands that is great but then
also the real reason you didn't want to
speaking was because if we did start
talking you know then we would share
stories and that's what happened in
Germany we all started in Germany and JC
and Justin went to McDonald's after a
basketball game we had did a charity
basketball game with a back street and
uh and they were talking with Kevin and
Brian and that's when they started
swapping stories for the first time and
that's when it all started unraveling
you gotta watch this documentary but did
you ever make amends with Lou no I did
and unfortunately he passed away you
know two years ago and I was hoping for
some kind of remorse for anything
because you know the music part of this
is just a little part of the story he
enacted one of the biggest Ponzi schemes
in American history incredible and
people got screwed a big time out of
this so you know it is sad for those
victims you know and and I'm just glad
that we gave them a platform to kind of
speak their piece and I hope this was
cathartic for everyone that did it just
like it was for me and Lance is rolling
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