Backstreets back.. ALRIGHT!!

Daily Dose of Reality:

per wikidepia "Lou Pearlman was inspired by New Kids on the Block in the 1980s and Steve Kinde (The Back Door Boys) to create his own clean-cut boy band. After a series of newspaper advertisements and auditions in 1992 and 1993, he recruited A. J. McLean, Howie Dorough, and Nick Carter who met each other in several auditions and became friends."

That is all well and good but it doesn't stop there. If manufacturing hit makers is as easy as putting a couple ads in the papers than why not do it again.

"Pearlman and the Wrights then repeated this formula almost exactly with the band *NSync, which sold over 56 million records globally. With these two major successes under his belt, Pearlman had become a music mogul. Other boy bands managed by Pearlman were O-Town (created during the ABC–MTV reality TV series Making the Band), LFO, Take 5, and Natural. "

Its not obvious, but a law of nature is at work here. You start out with something that worked well and was successful like New Kids on the Block and take that formula and create a copy and that makes Backstreet Boys. They made money so you make a copy of them and that makes NSync. Copy them and you get O-town and so on and so on down the line.

A copy is never as good as the orginal and the more copies you make of the orginal, the more diluted the product becomes. Music (and our standards) have become so diluted that when anything that gets hyped up becomes so much better than it really is. As much as it is the fault of big record companies like Universal, Disney, DFTBA and others, the fault really belongs to us as well for feeding the hype machine and buying lock stock and barrel into something that is medicore at best.