July 2, 2025 • 29 mins
Can You Really Build a Career Around Boy Bands? (Spoiler: Yes.)
This week, I’m sitting down with Boyband Stacy—the ultimate fangirl turned full-blown entrepreneur. She went from dubbing VHS tapes of TRL in high school to managing an actual boy band.
We get into:
🎤 The side hustle that started it all
🎤 Meeting her idols—and how she kept it cool
🎤 What it’s like working behind the scenes of the music industry
🎤 How she built a brand by fully owning her passion
This episode is your permission slip to stop making sense to everyone else—and start building the thing that actually lights you up. Let’s go.
#TheKeriCroftShow #BoybandStacy #BackstreetBoys #PopCulturePodcast #BrandBuilding #TRLForever #MillennialNostalgia #WomenInMusic #OwnYourWeird #BuildTheThing
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You know that's what we'regoing to talk about.
Totally boy band stacy.
Welcome to the kerry Croft Show.
Thank you for having me.
This is so incredibly fun tohave you here and, as we were
just saying, very relevantbecause, as I'm building this
thing on my authenticity, on myconnections, my experience and I
(03:21):
was just on story yesterdaysaying what a time to be alive
and what a time to buildsomething.
And you have, and arecontinuing to build a brand
around your love for boy bands.
Yes, I mean, can we just justpark for a moment on that?
How incredible is that.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
It's so incredible and it's what a time to be alive
, like you said, because it's inour control now and we can
create whatever we want and havea platform that we can
distribute it however we want.
And how cool to be able to dothat.
Who was your?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
first crush?
Who was your first boy bandcrush?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
First boy band crush, yeah on the wall like poster on
the wall, kind of shit.
Oh, Nick Carter.
Nick Carter was all over mywalls.
Okay yeah, okay yeah, okay yeah.
I still claim him as myfavorite boy band member of all
time because he is what got meinto this.
But, um, yeah, it was NickCarter.
It was the blonde hair and theblue eyes.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
For me, yeah, so when you, you know you were a teen
and you did, you feel likeeverybody's obsession at that
age, cause you have yourhormones and you're going
through puberty, I feel like, doyou remember, was it Bop the
magazine?
Yes, ok, so I remember likehaving these, like you know,
fixations and obsessions, butyou must have really been over
(04:37):
the moon.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Well, I liked.
I don't think I had any spare,there were no, no paint showing
in the walls of my bedroom, Ijust.
But I loved all the boy bands,so they were just all covered in
my room.
But then I paid specialattention to have some separate
Nick Carter posters and I thinkit was Lance from NSYNC, because
he had more blonde hair.
(04:58):
I had to look, that was a.
It was a time.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Do you have a concert count like how many concerts
you've been to?
I?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
don't.
And you know, there is this appcalled concert archives and I
started working on it where,like you, can track all the
shows you went to.
But you know, and then incollege I worked in venues, so I
was at so many concerts,sometimes three and three days,
just from depending on whatshows we had come through.
So I I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I lost.
So were you like so when youwere in high school then and you
were doing all the boy bandstuff, like, do you feel like
that was your big hobby, yourbig thing, like, were you just
that was?
You were in it to win it?
Speaker 2 (05:36):
it was, and but that was also where I discovered the
business of it too.
So I I was really entrenched inthe fandoms and AOL, which is,
was our precursor to socialmedia.
Aol was really big then.
So I would join all the chatrooms and make friends with
other fans and then I wouldactually sell them videos.
(05:57):
I would come home I would tapeall of their TRL appearances or
whatever other TV shows theywere on.
I would tape it and then Iwould dub them all together and
sell them to other fans.
And that was how I paid to goto all these concerts was
through the other fans.
I knew that they all wanted tosee what I wanted to see and
(06:20):
yeah, so it became both.
It was like the start of myjourney, discovering the
business part of it, and at thesame time it was what I loved
going to do as a hobby.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
So you were.
You got on the game early.
Like I was smart yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I was.
I had to have been 16 because Iwas driving myself home, but I
was in school all day.
So you know you obviously can'twork full time to pay for the
all the stuff you want to do.
So that was my side hustle wasmaking these concert videos and
I sent them out almost every dayafter school to another fan I'd
meet.
And yeah, it was.
It was enough to go see a lotof concerts, right yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
So which like when did you get your first taste of,
you met one of them?
Or you're like when did you getthat?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Well, I think my first concert was the Beach Boys
.
My dad is a huge Beach Boys fanand so I like to think that was
the introduction to the boybands.
And John Stamos was the drummerfor that show and that was
during peak Full House season.
So John Stamos walked by us inline and I saw my mom freak out
(07:25):
like fangirl, calling him UncleJesse, uncle Jesse, to his face,
and I think that was kind oflike a oh, it's a celebrity
right in my face.
That was kind of my first introto that whole excitement around
it and I just I lovedeverything about that concert.
I love the music, I love theenvironment.
Then fast forward to teenageyears.
(07:45):
I was really into hip hop andnot at all into the boy bands,
and it was the Millennium albumthat Backstreet Boys released.
My mom recorded a TV special ofthem on TRL and for whatever
reason I watched it that nightand I heard the voice first and
I was like wow, that's a reallygood voice.
And then I saw Nick Carter andI was like ooh, that's who's
(08:08):
singing this, and so that waskind of what triggered my love
for the boy bands.
And then going to see them wasthe first boy band show I had
seen was their Into theMillennium tour.
Can we F Mary Kill?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Sure them, yeah, go ahead Backstreet.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Boys.
I know who you're gonna meet.
Yeah, I know who you're gonnamarry, oh okay, well, I would
marry Howie.
Oh okay, howie's a very smartbusinessman.
He's aged amazingly.
I would F Nick for sure.
That's a tough one.
Who I'm gonna kill?
I guess maybe Kevin, because heleft the group for a while so
you know they can.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
They can carry on without him you know back to
John Stamos for a minute he's areally really pretty man.
Yes, like I wonder to myselfwould I be attracted Like?
Whenever I see him, I'm likehe's too, he's so, he's hot, but
he's like so pretty.
I think I'd have a hard time ina in a like physical situation
with him, because I'd beprettier than you know him and
(09:01):
rob low I would put them both inthe same bucket of like bro.
And have you seen rob low lately?
They are so they're aging, like.
I mean I know they have help,but they look so fucking pretty
still.
I just saw rob low the otherday on.
Something was entertainmenttonight or something.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I'm like damn boy, that's like howie in real life,
like howie up, close, close.
You're like, wow, he agedincredibly, he looks good.
It's the Latin genes in him.
It's got to be, I guess.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Yeah, he looks good.
Okay, so then when you were,you have the Beach Boys
influence.
You're kind of bit by the bugsubconsciously.
But then what concert were youattending in this boy band era
where you got the attention orthey met you and you saw?
Was it an autograph?
Was it a t-shirt?
Like what was that?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
like Well, what got my attention was that into the
Millennium Tour.
That was just like the most,and I think I probably locked
eyes with Nick Carter.
I had a third row seat thereand I got a.
I got a rose that they threwout from one of them.
But I think I first had myfirst interaction where I met.
One of them was the Black andBlue Tour.
A couple years later I got hipto well, if they're doing press,
(10:12):
I could go outside.
One of it was like Jay Leno orsomething like that.
So I waited outside one of thestudios and got to meet, got to
meet Nick after he had done anappearance and that was.
I don't even remember what wassaid.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
I you know, I know that, like in my experience with
things like that, was therelike a little bit of a like
letdown or depression after,because then you're like wait,
but Nick, like I love you and weshould be together and can we
at least be friends, like youknow what.
I mean Like so you meet,something like that, and then
you go back to your world andyou're like but no, we're
supposed to like be hanging out.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I guess I'm.
I never really felt that, butthere is what's famously known
as post-concert depression.
So I always get the PCD and Ithink what helped cure it was
well, I just need to work inthis industry.
That's what's going to curethis is to just be around it all
the time.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
So from the business perspective?
So you're selling those tapesway back in the day.
And then what was your next?
I guess leapfrog from abusiness perspective in the
(11:31):
venue.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
So I started working at the Mandalay Bay Event Center
.
Got to see a lot of coolconcerts there and it was owned
by the same staffing at the timeit was the same staffing
company that did them and it wascalled the Aladdin, but it's
now the Planet Hollywood, theAccess Theater, that Backstreet
Boys ended up doing a residencythere.
But I worked at both of thosevenues and got to see all these
cool shows come through and thatwas kind of where I started
(11:54):
meeting the touring crews asthey would come through town was
working at the venue.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
And then what was next?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
It just seems like I don't know.
I never escaped that Like I wasalways just around, like I
moved back to Arizona and I wasin hospitality but all my
friends were still touring andso I was still always around at
all these shows.
I just wasn't working in theindustry.
And then this is way fastforward.
(12:24):
But COVID came around and weall had so much free time on our
hands and so I had already beengoing to a ton of shows.
So I just started.
I thought I was annoying myfriends and family by posting
all these boy band and concertpictures on my own page.
So I came up with well, I'll doa boy band Stacey page and then
(12:46):
that's where I can show all theevents I'm at.
And you know, once COVID ended,I had gained quite a bit of
followers through that andthat's when I started like doing
the quote unquote influencingthing where I could promote
shows, be at them but also letmy audience know, let everybody
know.
You know, a lot of peopledidn't know these guys are still
touring and back together orthat you could meet them and
(13:08):
have VIP packages.
So that was my next step waswas doing that.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Did any of your friends and family think you
would like lost your mind?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Oh yeah, they probably all still do.
They're like wait, thought wethink, yeah, I mean, in one
sense it kind of gave a platformfor be like oh well, that's
what she's doing, she's doingher job, you know.
(13:37):
So it kind of legitimized someof it, if I'm being totally
honest.
But and through that thatcreated me so many I wound up
meeting a boy band that wantedto get back together for their
25th anniversary of their albumand I was like sure, I'll manage
that.
And so I, just then I startedmanaging a boy band and you know
, it kind of all justorganically grew.
But it was through specificallymanaging the band was I was
(13:57):
found through boy band Stacy.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
So and you named yourself boy band Stacy, which
is the greatest name of all time.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
And it was like I don't think I'm that original,
so I'm like what would I?
Well, boy bands my name.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
It was.
It's perfect, it's absolutelyperfect.
Well then, I had friends.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I had friends and it was actually, I think, Trevor
and Jacob from O-Town.
They had seen me.
It was a non-relate.
I think we were at a New Kidsconcert and I just heard BBS and
I turned around.
I'm like who's BBS?
Speaker 1 (14:33):
And then I was, ah, that kind of stuck, so a lot of
them call me BBS.
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So you like know them all, I do.
(16:23):
You've met them all, yeah, havewe made out with any of them.
No.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
We've not no Damn it, and I think that's what keeps
me in this.
I don't know that I would havethe same love and appreciation
for them if there was some kindof feelings going on.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Well, you know, they say never meet your heroes, you
probably just never make outwith your heroes Right.
Because you never know.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Yeah Well, I'd probably become too attached, or
if?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
they're a terrible kisser and they're kind of a
chat you're like, oh great.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
You too, then that'd be disappointing yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Yeah.
So which one out of all of them?
You only get 10 seconds toanswer this, but who's the
nicest, most genuine out of themall?
Donnie Wahlberg, Really, ohyeah.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Yeah, he is unlike anyone else.
He's just, he's incredible, andevery time you think it can't
get any better with him, italways does.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
I love that.
Have you met Jenny.
Yes, oh my God.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Yes, I have, she's wild, she's great, and I
remember watching her on SingledOut, so I almost the first time
around was more excited to meether one day where I was like,
oh my God, she looks good too.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Whatever, nip, nip, she's doing, keep on doing it,
boo, boo, who's got?
And this might be a hard answer, because everybody's got an ego
, but who has?
Who, would you say lovingly, isthe alpha biggest ego?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Probably just say Justin Timberlake, because he's
got his own.
He's got his own life, you know, he's got his own career.
I don't have that wouldprobably be my answer just
because he's so untouchable,yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
I don't know, Is he though?
I mean, he's kind of he'shaving his own set of humanness
over there.
I feel like, yeah, jt, I don'tknow.
I feel like he used to be oneof my.
I feel like he seems actuallymy best friend and I were just
talking about this because wewere huge and still, I mean, I'm
still a fan of JustinTimberlake.
He seems less joyful orsomething Like.
In everything you see, evenwhen he's like at a concert, he
(18:21):
almost has an anger or somethingabout him.
I don't know if it's bad Botox.
It could be I could beoveranalyzing it.
We could be having these deepyou know deep talks on the side
about JT and it could just belike Botox, but his aura seems
off.
Who?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
was your favorite NSYNC member growing up.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I don't, I'm older.
I mean, I don't even I wasn't abit.
I hate to say this, but Iwasn't like super into nsync.
I will say that when you saiddonnie walberg immediately and
this is not boy band related,but mark marky, mark, oh yeah,
he's my I mean when he was infear, my obsession with him.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
He's like mr walker, let me in the fucking house and
I'm like, oh, I'd let you in thehouse, buddy, I would let you
in the house him, and then, ofcourse, justin timberlake.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
I, I loved him.
And then um the um fromcincinnati oh, 98 degrees?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
no, yeah.
But what's his name?
Speaker 1 (19:07):
nick lachey, yeah okay, I like him too and I loved
him on his reality show withjessica simpson it was, I mean,
I.
That was iconic because he justlikes to drink miller light.
He's a bro and just wants tohang out and I don't know.
I appreciate that.
I appreciate that and totallyso okay.
So you're a perfect example ofsomeone who followed their
(19:30):
passion, didn't let anybody else, because I'm sure you were made
fun of, I'm sure you weremocked like that's what happens,
right?
No matter if you're boy bandStacy or if you're Carrie or
whomever people are going tohate on you, and I think the
more you're joyful, the moreyou're following your path and
the more it seems outrageous toothers, the more they're going
to mock.
But you have like regardless.
(19:53):
You were on track and now thisis what you do is your life and
your career is involved in boybands?
I think that's likeridiculously awesome.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
It's really cool, and you're right, I mean it's you
still have people that there'salways some people that don't
understand it too, and that's abig part of it, and that's fine.
Not everybody is cut out to be,you know, involved in this or
be on social media or be in themusic industry, which is fine,
but but yeah, there's beenchallenging times where I've
(20:24):
wanted to walk away and justquiet in my own little life, but
the passion inside you alwayscalls.
Like, as much as you think youdon't want something, it's
something that's in you.
The passion for the music issomething that is in me,
specifically in this genre, andit'll always be a calling to me,
(20:45):
so why not honor that?
Speaker 1 (20:47):
has this affected any of your relationships where
anybody was like threatened orjealous or like you like the boy
bands better than me not really.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
I think people have a false sense where they think I
am in it more like romanticallyor for that reason.
When it's not To me it's abusiness and but yeah, there's.
There's a lot of negativeconnotations towards women in
this industry and especiallywalking around with a laminate
or a backstage pass if I'mworking.
But a lot of times people arelike, oh, who's that girl, who's
(21:17):
she?
It's never.
You never hear that.
When they see men walkingthey're not like oh, who's that
guy?
I'm here working, but there's,there's a lot of chatter.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Yeah, double standards bitches, for sure,
we're trying to break those down.
Yes, you got 10 seconds toanswer.
Which song?
Which boy band?
Which song?
If you wanted to go in your carright now and have a good old
whale?
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Maybe I Need you Tonight.
That's top of my head.
That was written by a guy namedAndrew Fromm and it was on the
Millennium Backstreet Boys album.
But that's a really beautiful,beautiful song.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
What about your top three just and I know this is
hard.
It's like choosing children,probably.
What about your top three justand I know this is hard, it's
like choosing children, probably.
What are your top threeoff-the-cuff favorites?
Like if you just had to go on a, you know you're like I got to
take these three and throw therest away.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
I have this obscure favorite by the Backstreet Boys
that nobody has ever heard of.
It's called Missing you and itwas on this like b-side Japanese
released album that released inJapan that I think I got at a
Virgin Megastore in Vegassomewhere but it was never a
single.
But that's like my all timefavorite.
(22:28):
I think it Makes Me Ill fromNSYNC.
That's a classic.
Love that song and I love it'scalled Click Click Click by New
Kids on the Block.
It was one of their.
I think it was a song thatreunited them in 2008 when they
started doing these shows again.
It was on that album and thatis a classic.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
So what's your when you look forward?
Is there other things that youwant to get your hooks in?
Like, are you seeing how theindustry is changing and how is
it changing, like from yourperspective, with everything,
everything's changing.
I feel like, yeah, and I'mcertain that you're feeling that
too, but what are you seeing?
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Well, I think it's cool that it's artists motivated
now, where the artists can takea lot more control of their
careers than they had been ableto before.
My on my bucket list still is Iwant to manage another band and
I want to get back on.
I love being a part of a familyand having that family unit on
(23:27):
the road is really cool.
So I love working for an artist.
That's my direction, ok.
But yeah, I think it's cool tobe able to take control of your
own career now, like as we weretalking about earlier, with
social media and getting yourown stuff out there.
I mean, you can release yourown music now.
You don't need a label to do it.
All those things are so muchdifferent from you know, back
(23:50):
when we were growing up and youhad to have a label, that was
like the end, all be all was amajor record deal.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
So how do you do that then?
How do you have somebodyalready on your radar?
How do you find the perfectband?
How do we get you married tothe perfect band?
Speaker 2 (24:05):
to manage.
We're just manifesting it.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
We are.
We're going to clip this shitup, we're going to put it out.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
The same way the guys found me the last time around.
It's the same thing.
I have no doubt it'll happenwhen the right fit comes around.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Wildest thing that you've ever seen in a concert.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
You know it's hard, I would say back in the day, like
, of course, the throwing of theunderwear and stuff on stage
and the passing out.
It's, you know, wild.
Nowadays we're older and alittle bit tamer.
I will tell you that thefunnest part for me, or the most
(24:41):
fun, is on the I Love the 90stour.
Vanilla Ice has girls, men andwomen come up and dance on stage
every night and that is so funto watch is people just relive
in their glory days having thebest time.
I love watching all their faces, I love seeing who comes up,
because there's kids, there'sgrown up, I mean, there's old
people, there's young people, Imean it's a whole mix of people
(25:03):
on that stage and everybodyknows all the words and it's
really fun I just saw.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
I saw Sugar Ray not too long ago and it was kind of
that same.
I mean, it was really cool tosee.
And it's funny when you do, yousee everybody's older and
you're like looking around andyou're like wait.
You're like wait, I'm, I'molder too, because you don't
feel like you are right and thenyou're like jamming out to this
music and it makes you feellike you're 18 again totally and
it's cool we're doing so.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
We have some shows with the 90s tour artists, that
are doing some shows with thepop 2000 artists.
So it's a mix of like 90ship-hop, r&b and boy bands,
which is really cool to see theintersection of the fans and
that it was just a time in musicthat late 90s, early 2000s I
mean it's such a crossover butit's the same fan base and it's
(25:49):
fun to see everybody enjoy allkinds of music together.
It's a really fun thing to do.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
So you said you're from Sedona and I've been to
Sedona multiple times, Love it.
It's very quaint, very, verycowboy-esque, Like it's.
I love so many things about it,but I feel like living there
tells a story about you.
Like you, are you reclusive?
Like do you?
Are you a mix of, like you know, cause I would think like all
(26:18):
this action, energy and likeglamour and fame stuff that
you're dealing with like thejuxtaposition of then it's
totally different going toSedona?
Speaker 2 (26:26):
is that you love that balance?
I do, and people oftentimesthat don't know me and just see
me on social media are like, oh,you're always having so much
fun and you're this party girland I'm like my real life is I'm
like you know, I go to a lot ofshows and I'm working a lot of
late nights, but when I'm homeI'm in bed by eight o'clock.
I love I'm a homebody, like Ilike to be able to turn it all
(26:50):
off.
I usually don't watch TV.
I like the silence.
Yeah, what's your typical?
Speaker 1 (26:55):
life like there in Arizona.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Well, I have a.
My son is almost 16.
So I have a lot of mom lifegoing on, but he's starting to
drive, so that's.
It's crazy, giving me a lot ofgray hairs for sure, but yeah,
it's normal, normal life likethat A lot of school drop offs.
He's a competitive tennisplayer, so we do tennis and yeah
, and then this stuff I get todo on the weekends the 90s tour
(27:19):
that I'm.
I do a lot of work from homebecause a lot, of, a lot of the
job is social media posting andmarketing and marketing plans
and that stuff I can do fromhome.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Yeah, so it's a, it's a totally normal life and then
I get to go on the road and havefun and go to all these shows
and I think you've carved outquite the.
You've designed a very specialand unique life.
I think it's amazing, it's agreat balance.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
I love it.
I love every part of it.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Now, last but not least, I cannot let this
interview conclude withoutasking you a question about I
call it augmented intelligence,not artificial intelligence.
Okay, Are you in a relationshipwith chat GPT?
Speaker 2 (27:58):
As of like two weeks ago, I am, I could not figure
out what it was useful for.
And then do you remember thattrend when all those action
figures were popping up whereyou could make yourself into an
action figure?
That was my intro to it.
And now I'm like what can't youuse chat GPT for?
Speaker 1 (28:16):
So are you using it daily?
Speaker 2 (28:20):
chat gpt for uh-huh.
So are you using it daily?
I wouldn't say daily, butanytime I have a block of like
what would help me move forwardwith specific tasks, I'll put it
into chat gpt.
See what they recommend themlike I could integrate that.
Yeah, make it my own well,stacy.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Thank you so much.
Is there anything else you wantto promote?
Discuss?
Pop out into the universebefore we let you in your fine
ass with your leather, is that?
Speaker 2 (28:40):
vegan leather, I probably I'm sure it is.
These are matching, matchingleather and you have a vegan
leather hat it is girl yeah, uh,no, just follow me over on at
boy band stacy on instagram anduh, yeah, see where the journey
unfolds.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
It's been fun, that's so great.
Well, I love everything you'redoing and you are truly a
testament of just following yourpassion, follow your joy,
follow your authenticity and itjust leads to really great
things.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
And brand it.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Yes and brand it baby .
Be smart about that shit.
And if you're still out therefollowing your girl, follow me
on YouTube, spotify, apple orwherever you get your podcasts.
And until next time, go followboy band Stacey.
Go listen to one of yourfavorite boy band songs,
reminisce nostalgia and keepmoving baby.
Bye, bye, bye.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Bye, bye, bye, bye.
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getting started on that.
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I can't wait to just you know well, that shit popping
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going.
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Speaker 1 (02:57):
What a time to be alive.
You know that's what we'regoing to talk about.
Totally boy band stacy.
Welcome to the kerry Croft Show.
Thank you for having me.
This is so incredibly fun tohave you here and, as we were
just saying, very relevantbecause, as I'm building this
thing on my authenticity, on myconnections, my experience and I
(03:21):
was just on story yesterdaysaying what a time to be alive
and what a time to buildsomething.
And you have, and arecontinuing to build a brand
around your love for boy bands.
Yes, I mean, can we just justpark for a moment on that?
How incredible is that.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
It's so incredible and it's what a time to be alive
, like you said, because it's inour control now and we can
create whatever we want and havea platform that we can
distribute it however we want.
And how cool to be able to dothat.
Who was your?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
first crush?
Who was your first boy bandcrush?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
First boy band crush, yeah on the wall like poster on
the wall, kind of shit.
Oh, Nick Carter.
Nick Carter was all over mywalls.
Okay yeah, okay yeah, okay yeah.
I still claim him as myfavorite boy band member of all
time because he is what got meinto this.
But, um, yeah, it was NickCarter.
It was the blonde hair and theblue eyes.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
For me, yeah, so when you, you know you were a teen
and you did, you feel likeeverybody's obsession at that
age, cause you have yourhormones and you're going
through puberty, I feel like, doyou remember, was it Bop the
magazine?
Yes, ok, so I remember likehaving these, like you know,
fixations and obsessions, butyou must have really been over
(04:37):
the moon.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Well, I liked.
I don't think I had any spare,there were no, no paint showing
in the walls of my bedroom, Ijust.
But I loved all the boy bands,so they were just all covered in
my room.
But then I paid specialattention to have some separate
Nick Carter posters and I thinkit was Lance from NSYNC, because
he had more blonde hair.
(04:58):
I had to look, that was a.
It was a time.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Do you have a concert count like how many concerts
you've been to?
I?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
don't.
And you know, there is this appcalled concert archives and I
started working on it where,like you, can track all the
shows you went to.
But you know, and then incollege I worked in venues, so I
was at so many concerts,sometimes three and three days,
just from depending on whatshows we had come through.
So I I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I lost.
So were you like so when youwere in high school then and you
were doing all the boy bandstuff, like, do you feel like
that was your big hobby, yourbig thing, like, were you just
that was?
You were in it to win it?
Speaker 2 (05:36):
it was, and but that was also where I discovered the
business of it too.
So I I was really entrenched inthe fandoms and AOL, which is,
was our precursor to socialmedia.
Aol was really big then.
So I would join all the chatrooms and make friends with
other fans and then I wouldactually sell them videos.
(05:57):
I would come home I would tapeall of their TRL appearances or
whatever other TV shows theywere on.
I would tape it and then Iwould dub them all together and
sell them to other fans.
And that was how I paid to goto all these concerts was
through the other fans.
I knew that they all wanted tosee what I wanted to see and
(06:20):
yeah, so it became both.
It was like the start of myjourney, discovering the
business part of it, and at thesame time it was what I loved
going to do as a hobby.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
So you were.
You got on the game early.
Like I was smart yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I was.
I had to have been 16 because Iwas driving myself home, but I
was in school all day.
So you know you obviously can'twork full time to pay for the
all the stuff you want to do.
So that was my side hustle wasmaking these concert videos and
I sent them out almost every dayafter school to another fan I'd
meet.
And yeah, it was.
It was enough to go see a lotof concerts, right yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
So which like when did you get your first taste of,
you met one of them?
Or you're like when did you getthat?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Well, I think my first concert was the Beach Boys
.
My dad is a huge Beach Boys fanand so I like to think that was
the introduction to the boybands.
And John Stamos was the drummerfor that show and that was
during peak Full House season.
So John Stamos walked by us inline and I saw my mom freak out
(07:25):
like fangirl, calling him UncleJesse, uncle Jesse, to his face,
and I think that was kind oflike a oh, it's a celebrity
right in my face.
That was kind of my first introto that whole excitement around
it and I just I lovedeverything about that concert.
I love the music, I love theenvironment.
Then fast forward to teenageyears.
(07:45):
I was really into hip hop andnot at all into the boy bands,
and it was the Millennium albumthat Backstreet Boys released.
My mom recorded a TV special ofthem on TRL and for whatever
reason I watched it that nightand I heard the voice first and
I was like wow, that's a reallygood voice.
And then I saw Nick Carter andI was like ooh, that's who's
(08:08):
singing this, and so that waskind of what triggered my love
for the boy bands.
And then going to see them wasthe first boy band show I had
seen was their Into theMillennium tour.
Can we F Mary Kill?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Sure them, yeah, go ahead Backstreet.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Boys.
I know who you're gonna meet.
Yeah, I know who you're gonnamarry, oh okay, well, I would
marry Howie.
Oh okay, howie's a very smartbusinessman.
He's aged amazingly.
I would F Nick for sure.
That's a tough one.
Who I'm gonna kill?
I guess maybe Kevin, because heleft the group for a while so
you know they can.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
They can carry on without him you know back to
John Stamos for a minute he's areally really pretty man.
Yes, like I wonder to myselfwould I be attracted Like?
Whenever I see him, I'm likehe's too, he's so, he's hot, but
he's like so pretty.
I think I'd have a hard time ina in a like physical situation
with him, because I'd beprettier than you know him and
(09:01):
rob low I would put them both inthe same bucket of like bro.
And have you seen rob low lately?
They are so they're aging, like.
I mean I know they have help,but they look so fucking pretty
still.
I just saw rob low the otherday on.
Something was entertainmenttonight or something.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I'm like damn boy, that's like howie in real life,
like howie up, close, close.
You're like, wow, he agedincredibly, he looks good.
It's the Latin genes in him.
It's got to be, I guess.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Yeah, he looks good.
Okay, so then when you were,you have the Beach Boys
influence.
You're kind of bit by the bugsubconsciously.
But then what concert were youattending in this boy band era
where you got the attention orthey met you and you saw?
Was it an autograph?
Was it a t-shirt?
Like what was that?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
like Well, what got my attention was that into the
Millennium Tour.
That was just like the most,and I think I probably locked
eyes with Nick Carter.
I had a third row seat thereand I got a.
I got a rose that they threwout from one of them.
But I think I first had myfirst interaction where I met.
One of them was the Black andBlue Tour.
A couple years later I got hipto well, if they're doing press,
(10:12):
I could go outside.
One of it was like Jay Leno orsomething like that.
So I waited outside one of thestudios and got to meet, got to
meet Nick after he had done anappearance and that was.
I don't even remember what wassaid.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
I you know, I know that, like in my experience with
things like that, was therelike a little bit of a like
letdown or depression after,because then you're like wait,
but Nick, like I love you and weshould be together and can we
at least be friends, like youknow what.
I mean Like so you meet,something like that, and then
you go back to your world andyou're like but no, we're
supposed to like be hanging out.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I guess I'm.
I never really felt that, butthere is what's famously known
as post-concert depression.
So I always get the PCD and Ithink what helped cure it was
well, I just need to work inthis industry.
That's what's going to curethis is to just be around it all
the time.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
So from the business perspective?
So you're selling those tapesway back in the day.
And then what was your next?
I guess leapfrog from abusiness perspective in the
(11:31):
venue.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
So I started working at the Mandalay Bay Event Center
.
Got to see a lot of coolconcerts there and it was owned
by the same staffing at the timeit was the same staffing
company that did them and it wascalled the Aladdin, but it's
now the Planet Hollywood, theAccess Theater, that Backstreet
Boys ended up doing a residencythere.
But I worked at both of thosevenues and got to see all these
cool shows come through and thatwas kind of where I started
(11:54):
meeting the touring crews asthey would come through town was
working at the venue.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
And then what was next?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
It just seems like I don't know.
I never escaped that Like I wasalways just around, like I
moved back to Arizona and I wasin hospitality but all my
friends were still touring andso I was still always around at
all these shows.
I just wasn't working in theindustry.
And then this is way fastforward.
(12:24):
But COVID came around and weall had so much free time on our
hands and so I had already beengoing to a ton of shows.
So I just started.
I thought I was annoying myfriends and family by posting
all these boy band and concertpictures on my own page.
So I came up with well, I'll doa boy band Stacey page and then
(12:46):
that's where I can show all theevents I'm at.
And you know, once COVID ended,I had gained quite a bit of
followers through that andthat's when I started like doing
the quote unquote influencingthing where I could promote
shows, be at them but also letmy audience know, let everybody
know.
You know, a lot of peopledidn't know these guys are still
touring and back together orthat you could meet them and
(13:08):
have VIP packages.
So that was my next step waswas doing that.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Did any of your friends and family think you
would like lost your mind?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Oh yeah, they probably all still do.
They're like wait, thought wethink, yeah, I mean, in one
sense it kind of gave a platformfor be like oh well, that's
what she's doing, she's doingher job, you know.
(13:37):
So it kind of legitimized someof it, if I'm being totally
honest.
But and through that thatcreated me so many I wound up
meeting a boy band that wantedto get back together for their
25th anniversary of their albumand I was like sure, I'll manage
that.
And so I, just then I startedmanaging a boy band and you know
, it kind of all justorganically grew.
But it was through specificallymanaging the band was I was
(13:57):
found through boy band Stacy.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
So and you named yourself boy band Stacy, which
is the greatest name of all time.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
And it was like I don't think I'm that original,
so I'm like what would I?
Well, boy bands my name.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
It was.
It's perfect, it's absolutelyperfect.
Well then, I had friends.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I had friends and it was actually, I think, Trevor
and Jacob from O-Town.
They had seen me.
It was a non-relate.
I think we were at a New Kidsconcert and I just heard BBS and
I turned around.
I'm like who's BBS?
Speaker 1 (14:33):
And then I was, ah, that kind of stuck, so a lot of
them call me BBS.
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So you like know them all, I do.
(16:23):
You've met them all, yeah, havewe made out with any of them.
No.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
We've not no Damn it, and I think that's what keeps
me in this.
I don't know that I would havethe same love and appreciation
for them if there was some kindof feelings going on.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Well, you know, they say never meet your heroes, you
probably just never make outwith your heroes Right.
Because you never know.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Yeah Well, I'd probably become too attached, or
if?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
they're a terrible kisser and they're kind of a
chat you're like, oh great.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
You too, then that'd be disappointing yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Yeah.
So which one out of all of them?
You only get 10 seconds toanswer this, but who's the
nicest, most genuine out of themall?
Donnie Wahlberg, Really, ohyeah.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Yeah, he is unlike anyone else.
He's just, he's incredible, andevery time you think it can't
get any better with him, italways does.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
I love that.
Have you met Jenny.
Yes, oh my God.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Yes, I have, she's wild, she's great, and I
remember watching her on SingledOut, so I almost the first time
around was more excited to meether one day where I was like,
oh my God, she looks good too.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Whatever, nip, nip, she's doing, keep on doing it,
boo, boo, who's got?
And this might be a hard answer, because everybody's got an ego
, but who has?
Who, would you say lovingly, isthe alpha biggest ego?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Probably just say Justin Timberlake, because he's
got his own.
He's got his own life, you know, he's got his own career.
I don't have that wouldprobably be my answer just
because he's so untouchable,yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
I don't know, Is he though?
I mean, he's kind of he'shaving his own set of humanness
over there.
I feel like, yeah, jt, I don'tknow.
I feel like he used to be oneof my.
I feel like he seems actuallymy best friend and I were just
talking about this because wewere huge and still, I mean, I'm
still a fan of JustinTimberlake.
He seems less joyful orsomething Like.
In everything you see, evenwhen he's like at a concert, he
(18:21):
almost has an anger or somethingabout him.
I don't know if it's bad Botox.
It could be I could beoveranalyzing it.
We could be having these deepyou know deep talks on the side
about JT and it could just belike Botox, but his aura seems
off.
Who?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
was your favorite NSYNC member growing up.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I don't, I'm older.
I mean, I don't even I wasn't abit.
I hate to say this, but Iwasn't like super into nsync.
I will say that when you saiddonnie walberg immediately and
this is not boy band related,but mark marky, mark, oh yeah,
he's my I mean when he was infear, my obsession with him.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
He's like mr walker, let me in the fucking house and
I'm like, oh, I'd let you in thehouse, buddy, I would let you
in the house him, and then, ofcourse, justin timberlake.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
I, I loved him.
And then um the um fromcincinnati oh, 98 degrees?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
no, yeah.
But what's his name?
Speaker 1 (19:07):
nick lachey, yeah okay, I like him too and I loved
him on his reality show withjessica simpson it was, I mean,
I.
That was iconic because he justlikes to drink miller light.
He's a bro and just wants tohang out and I don't know.
I appreciate that.
I appreciate that and totallyso okay.
So you're a perfect example ofsomeone who followed their
(19:30):
passion, didn't let anybody else, because I'm sure you were made
fun of, I'm sure you weremocked like that's what happens,
right?
No matter if you're boy bandStacy or if you're Carrie or
whomever people are going tohate on you, and I think the
more you're joyful, the moreyou're following your path and
the more it seems outrageous toothers, the more they're going
to mock.
But you have like regardless.
(19:53):
You were on track and now thisis what you do is your life and
your career is involved in boybands?
I think that's likeridiculously awesome.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
It's really cool, and you're right, I mean it's you
still have people that there'salways some people that don't
understand it too, and that's abig part of it, and that's fine.
Not everybody is cut out to be,you know, involved in this or
be on social media or be in themusic industry, which is fine,
but but yeah, there's beenchallenging times where I've
(20:24):
wanted to walk away and justquiet in my own little life, but
the passion inside you alwayscalls.
Like, as much as you think youdon't want something, it's
something that's in you.
The passion for the music issomething that is in me,
specifically in this genre, andit'll always be a calling to me,
(20:45):
so why not honor that?
Speaker 1 (20:47):
has this affected any of your relationships where
anybody was like threatened orjealous or like you like the boy
bands better than me not really.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
I think people have a false sense where they think I
am in it more like romanticallyor for that reason.
When it's not To me it's abusiness and but yeah, there's.
There's a lot of negativeconnotations towards women in
this industry and especiallywalking around with a laminate
or a backstage pass if I'mworking.
But a lot of times people arelike, oh, who's that girl, who's
(21:17):
she?
It's never.
You never hear that.
When they see men walkingthey're not like oh, who's that
guy?
I'm here working, but there's,there's a lot of chatter.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Yeah, double standards bitches, for sure,
we're trying to break those down.
Yes, you got 10 seconds toanswer.
Which song?
Which boy band?
Which song?
If you wanted to go in your carright now and have a good old
whale?
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Maybe I Need you Tonight.
That's top of my head.
That was written by a guy namedAndrew Fromm and it was on the
Millennium Backstreet Boys album.
But that's a really beautiful,beautiful song.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
What about your top three just and I know this is
hard.
It's like choosing children,probably.
What about your top three justand I know this is hard, it's
like choosing children, probably.
What are your top threeoff-the-cuff favorites?
Like if you just had to go on a, you know you're like I got to
take these three and throw therest away.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
I have this obscure favorite by the Backstreet Boys
that nobody has ever heard of.
It's called Missing you and itwas on this like b-side Japanese
released album that released inJapan that I think I got at a
Virgin Megastore in Vegassomewhere but it was never a
single.
But that's like my all timefavorite.
(22:28):
I think it Makes Me Ill fromNSYNC.
That's a classic.
Love that song and I love it'scalled Click Click Click by New
Kids on the Block.
It was one of their.
I think it was a song thatreunited them in 2008 when they
started doing these shows again.
It was on that album and thatis a classic.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
So what's your when you look forward?
Is there other things that youwant to get your hooks in?
Like, are you seeing how theindustry is changing and how is
it changing, like from yourperspective, with everything,
everything's changing.
I feel like, yeah, and I'mcertain that you're feeling that
too, but what are you seeing?
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Well, I think it's cool that it's artists motivated
now, where the artists can takea lot more control of their
careers than they had been ableto before.
My on my bucket list still is Iwant to manage another band and
I want to get back on.
I love being a part of a familyand having that family unit on
(23:27):
the road is really cool.
So I love working for an artist.
That's my direction, ok.
But yeah, I think it's cool tobe able to take control of your
own career now, like as we weretalking about earlier, with
social media and getting yourown stuff out there.
I mean, you can release yourown music now.
You don't need a label to do it.
All those things are so muchdifferent from you know, back
(23:50):
when we were growing up and youhad to have a label, that was
like the end, all be all was amajor record deal.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
So how do you do that then?
How do you have somebodyalready on your radar?
How do you find the perfectband?
How do we get you married tothe perfect band?
Speaker 2 (24:05):
to manage.
We're just manifesting it.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
We are.
We're going to clip this shitup, we're going to put it out.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
The same way the guys found me the last time around.
It's the same thing.
I have no doubt it'll happenwhen the right fit comes around.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Wildest thing that you've ever seen in a concert.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
You know it's hard, I would say back in the day, like
, of course, the throwing of theunderwear and stuff on stage
and the passing out.
It's, you know, wild.
Nowadays we're older and alittle bit tamer.
I will tell you that thefunnest part for me, or the most
(24:41):
fun, is on the I Love the 90stour.
Vanilla Ice has girls, men andwomen come up and dance on stage
every night and that is so funto watch is people just relive
in their glory days having thebest time.
I love watching all their faces, I love seeing who comes up,
because there's kids, there'sgrown up, I mean, there's old
people, there's young people, Imean it's a whole mix of people
(25:03):
on that stage and everybodyknows all the words and it's
really fun I just saw.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
I saw Sugar Ray not too long ago and it was kind of
that same.
I mean, it was really cool tosee.
And it's funny when you do, yousee everybody's older and
you're like looking around andyou're like wait.
You're like wait, I'm, I'molder too, because you don't
feel like you are right and thenyou're like jamming out to this
music and it makes you feellike you're 18 again totally and
it's cool we're doing so.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
We have some shows with the 90s tour artists, that
are doing some shows with thepop 2000 artists.
So it's a mix of like 90ship-hop, r&b and boy bands,
which is really cool to see theintersection of the fans and
that it was just a time in musicthat late 90s, early 2000s I
mean it's such a crossover butit's the same fan base and it's
(25:49):
fun to see everybody enjoy allkinds of music together.
It's a really fun thing to do.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
So you said you're from Sedona and I've been to
Sedona multiple times, Love it.
It's very quaint, very, verycowboy-esque, Like it's.
I love so many things about it,but I feel like living there
tells a story about you.
Like you, are you reclusive?
Like do you?
Are you a mix of, like you know, cause I would think like all
(26:18):
this action, energy and likeglamour and fame stuff that
you're dealing with like thejuxtaposition of then it's
totally different going toSedona?
Speaker 2 (26:26):
is that you love that balance?
I do, and people oftentimesthat don't know me and just see
me on social media are like, oh,you're always having so much
fun and you're this party girland I'm like my real life is I'm
like you know, I go to a lot ofshows and I'm working a lot of
late nights, but when I'm homeI'm in bed by eight o'clock.
I love I'm a homebody, like Ilike to be able to turn it all
(26:50):
off.
I usually don't watch TV.
I like the silence.
Yeah, what's your typical?
Speaker 1 (26:55):
life like there in Arizona.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Well, I have a.
My son is almost 16.
So I have a lot of mom lifegoing on, but he's starting to
drive, so that's.
It's crazy, giving me a lot ofgray hairs for sure, but yeah,
it's normal, normal life likethat A lot of school drop offs.
He's a competitive tennisplayer, so we do tennis and yeah
, and then this stuff I get todo on the weekends the 90s tour
(27:19):
that I'm.
I do a lot of work from homebecause a lot, of, a lot of the
job is social media posting andmarketing and marketing plans
and that stuff I can do fromhome.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Yeah, so it's a, it's a totally normal life and then
I get to go on the road and havefun and go to all these shows
and I think you've carved outquite the.
You've designed a very specialand unique life.
I think it's amazing, it's agreat balance.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
I love it.
I love every part of it.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Now, last but not least, I cannot let this
interview conclude withoutasking you a question about I
call it augmented intelligence,not artificial intelligence.
Okay, Are you in a relationshipwith chat GPT?
Speaker 2 (27:58):
As of like two weeks ago, I am, I could not figure
out what it was useful for.
And then do you remember thattrend when all those action
figures were popping up whereyou could make yourself into an
action figure?
That was my intro to it.
And now I'm like what can't youuse chat GPT for?
Speaker 1 (28:16):
So are you using it daily?
Speaker 2 (28:20):
chat gpt for uh-huh.
So are you using it daily?
I wouldn't say daily, butanytime I have a block of like
what would help me move forwardwith specific tasks, I'll put it
into chat gpt.
See what they recommend themlike I could integrate that.
Yeah, make it my own well,stacy.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Thank you so much.
Is there anything else you wantto promote?
Discuss?
Pop out into the universebefore we let you in your fine
ass with your leather, is that?
Speaker 2 (28:40):
vegan leather, I probably I'm sure it is.
These are matching, matchingleather and you have a vegan
leather hat it is girl yeah, uh,no, just follow me over on at
boy band stacy on instagram anduh, yeah, see where the journey
unfolds.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
It's been fun, that's so great.
Well, I love everything you'redoing and you are truly a
testament of just following yourpassion, follow your joy,
follow your authenticity and itjust leads to really great
things.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
And brand it.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Yes and brand it baby .
Be smart about that shit.
And if you're still out therefollowing your girl, follow me
on YouTube, spotify, apple orwherever you get your podcasts.
And until next time, go followboy band Stacey.
Go listen to one of yourfavorite boy band songs,
reminisce nostalgia and keepmoving baby.
Bye, bye, bye.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Bye, bye, bye, bye.
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