“My feeling was, where there’s McDonald’s, there’s Burger King,” Pearlman says over the phone from prison, “and where there’s Coke there’s Pepsi and where’s there’s Backstreet Boys, there’s going to be someone else. Someone’s going to have it, why not us?” So, without telling the Backstreet Boys, Pearlman had set about creating another boy band, which he eventually named ’N Sync.
