Backstreet Boys — Happy Place — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someone Is Now Five Hundred Bucks Poorer Presents Nat

The New Lou Pearlman Docu-Series Gives Me an Excuse to Rerun This Piece on Pearlman's Demented Memoir, Which Figures Prominently in It

In honor of the boy band-centric Turning Red , I am re-running a piece (compiled in The Joy of Trash) about disgrace boy band Svengali Lou Pearlman’s deranged and deluded memoir.

Literature SocietyNathan RabinAugust 11, 2024Justin Timberlake, Lou Pearlman, Backstreet Boys

In 1998, Now That's What I Call Music! was the White-Hot Epicenter of the Pop Music World

In the second entry in My Dumb Quarter Century, a 25 part column about my two and a half decades as a professional pop culture writer I take a fond, nostalgic look back at Now That’s What I Call Music! and The A.V Club column I wrote about the popular pop compilation series.

My Dumb Quarter CenturyNathan RabinAugust 22, 2022Backstreet Boys, Radiohead, Spice Girls, Marcy Playground

Exploiting The Joy of Trash: Lou Pearlman's Brands, Bands and Billions: My Top 10 Rules for Making Any Business Go Platinum

Brands, Bands and Billions, disgraced boy band Svengali's memoir/business guide/wannabe The Art of the Deal offers fascinating insight into the gargantuan con artist's warped mind and crazed narcissism

Literature SocietyNathan RabinDecember 29, 2021Justin Timberlake, Lou Pearlman, Backstreet Boys

Day One hundred and twenty-eight: "Ebay" from Poodle Hat

Al is a one-man boy band in a tuneful, tech-savvy tribute to the game-changing online auction house.