Before we get too deep into the story of Lou Pearlman, a pop music kingmaker who built his empire on a Ponzi Scheme, something needs to be addressed about Netflix\u2019s three-part docuseries \u201cDirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam.\u201d As technology advances, there are going to be deeper and deeper questions about what\u2019s allowed in non-fiction filmmaking, and the creators of this series wade into what I would call some professionally murky waters. Pearlman himself died in 2016, but he published an autobiography titled Band, Brands, & Billions<\/i> and the series uses passages from that book but puts them into the form of an A.I.-generated Pearlman, as if he\u2019s being interviewed or giving a sort of presentation about his life. While no one is here to defend Pearlman, the decision feels a bit wrong to me. Written words in a book are not the same as an interview. How do we know a word or two aren\u2019t missed in the translation? How do we know the emphasis on a certain word or idea is the right one? It feels like an incredibly slippery slope to turn books into something that looks like an interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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