Video Killed The Radio Star

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In looks, US5 are a total copy of O-Town, right down to a dread-locked Jacob-wannabe and a long-chinned Dan mk.2, except they replaced Erik with a pointless extra blonde boy. The problem is, they're not even as good looking as O-Town, and they weren't exactly the best looking boyband of all time in the first place. There really is nothing original about US5. If they think everyone's forgotten about the Backstreet Boys and Five doing the haunted house video well before they thought of it and far better too, they are quite mistaken. The BSBs wouldn't even release this as a b-side. US5 do have quite an interesting background, however. They are the latest project from Lou Pearlman, who I'm sure you all know as the man behind the BSBs, NSync and the aforementioned O-Town, and this time he's cut to the chase and instead of sending an American band to Germany to exploit their insatiable appetite for boybands, he's combined two Americans with two Germans and, quite randomly, a British boy. Like O-Town again, the band were formed on a reality TV show, this one going by the name of Big In America. As far as I know, this is the first time a Brit has been involved in one of Lou's projects, but hopefully he doesn't think that will make them popular over here, because that would be quite a mistake.