rant · moment 13 of 22
Listening to Lou Pearlman's Failed Band C-Note
from Lou Balls · #7
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4 minThey search for and play a clip of Pearlman's failed boy band C-note, mocking its terrible quality and joking about which band members got sexually favored by Pearlman versus which didn't.
- 33:35Tim on what you tell parents to recruit kids for Lou Pearlman's bands: pull out a bank statement, because the parents are psychopathic and money-driven.
- 33:52Pearlman had Britney Spears slated for a boy-girl band that never took off before she broke through.
- 34:08C-Note was one of Pearlman's failed bands, produced by a successful songwriter who also worked with Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears.
- 35:01Tim listens to C-Note's music and calls it the real tragedy—the members got no money from this project.
- 35:28After hearing the song, Tim says it's maybe the worst song he's ever heard and suggests the lead singer now delivers pizzas in New Jersey.
- 35:47Tim argues that Lou Pearlman lost his magic touch by the time he made C-Note.
- 36:06If this was actually Pearlman's project, Tim suggests Pearlman was really phoning it in at this point in his career.
- 36:42Tim describes Pearlman as getting complacent, fat, his stomach full of cum, just coasting at the end of his career.
- 36:53Tim riffs on guys in Wisconsin at a bar right now talking about how everyone got fucked by Pearlman and Timberlake.
- 37:14Tim's extended metaphor: everyone got in bed with Pearlman, and now working at Home Depot, they taste his cum again every time they help a customer find screwdrivers.