Boy Bands as Manufactured Product vs Organic Bands

• 16:58Perlman starts Transcontinental Airlines, building a company through stick-and-move hustling, acquiring planes and investors from the neighborhood and Manhattan wealth.
• 17:42After getting seed money from insurance following a blimp crash, Perlman takes the airline public through shady investment firms and things take off.
• 18:24Tim describes Perlman encountering New Kids on the Block and recognizing the business opportunity in manufactured boy bands.
• 18:43An article argues that Lou Pearlman envisioned the reality-show-contest world we live in now—the American Idol model—as the creation of his manufacturing approach.
• 19:09The contrast drawn in the article: doo-wop groups from the 50s were organically formed versus manufactured acts like New Kids on the Block.
• 19:34The Monkees were 100% put together for the TV show, not formed as an organic band first.
• 19:52One Direction—probably the biggest boy band in history—represents a manufactured product, though they answered an open audition rather than being discovered organically.
• 20:08One Direction was created by Simon Cowell, not Lou Pearlman, though Pearlman had established the template for the manufactured boy band business model.

Lou PearlmanNew Kids on the BlockOne DirectionThe MonkeesSimon Cowell