Former One Course star Liam Payne has joined forces with music legends Nicole Scherzinger and Kelly Rowland in a brand new actuality TV collection competitors for Netflix.
In Constructing the Band, the celebrities try to type a band from scratch, with out ever having seen them earlier than. It’s mainly a cross between Love is Blind and The X Issue.
Liam, 30, will be a part of Pusscat Dolls star Nicole Scherzinger, 46, and Future's Baby Kelly Rowland, 43, to mentor the subsequent technology of expertise, alongside a bunch of yet-to-be-announced visitor judges.
In the meantime, former Backstreet Boys star and singer AJ McLean, 46, will host the competitors, including one other pop sensation to the combination.
With none face-to-face conferences, contributors are inspired to seek out their bandmates primarily based on charisma, compatibility and expertise.
However what is going to occur to the bands once they lastly meet for the primary time?
Government producer Cat Lawson defined the idea to Netflix.com, saying, “Constructing the Band is a courageous and daring endeavor for everybody concerned, as a result of we put the ability within the fingers of the singers themselves to type their very own band, primarily based on their chemistry.
'Now that look is not a difficulty, can they create a deeper bond with their bandmates?'
She continues: 'Whenever you play with a restricted variety of bands, you need to make tough choices and you’re confronted with breathtaking moments, however ultimately the result’s actually nice. Bands are shaped that, in my view, deserve a spot on the largest stage!'
On their highway to fame, the contestants face a collection of surprising challenges and should carry out for each the everlasting jury and visitor stars.
Filming will start this summer time and visitor judges and problem names shall be introduced quickly.
With a star-studded line-up that features figures from not one however 4 iconic pop bands, producers are little doubt hoping for the subsequent One Course or Pussycat Dolls.
Choose Liam adopted the same path to the present's contestants, auditioning for The X Consider 2010 as a solo artist, earlier than becoming a member of a band with Harry Types and the remainder of the crew.
Like Harry and Liam, 1D band members Zayn Malik, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson all auditioned as solo artists for the ITV competitors.
However Simon Cowell, the mastermind behind the collection, had different concepts – and thus One Course was born.
Netflix may even air the documentary The Midas Contact, which chronicles Simon's quest to turn into the subsequent One Course. The band has been on hiatus since 2015 whereas the boys concentrate on their very own careers.
In his seek for replacements, the 64-year-old music mogul found that the expertise pool leaves a lot to be desired.
The truth is that about 200,000 songs are uploaded daily [to social media] “There are, oddly sufficient, fewer folks signing and fewer folks breaking via worldwide,” he instructed Best Hits Radio.
“It's the worst factor I've ever skilled since I've been within the music business,” he continued.
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Nevertheless, he’s satisfied that there’s nonetheless starvation for the 'new' One Course.
“These information have actually stood the take a look at of time, they nonetheless sound actually, actually nice. Think about in the event that they reformed and put their tickets on sale? They’d have the largest ticket gross sales in historical past, I really imagine that,” he mentioned.
“I don't know if that's going to occur, so I'm going to search for the subsequent technology.”
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