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Well, it's really just that the manufacturing element is now being done under the gaze of the public, rather than in secret. 10 years ago we had JasonanKylie, the SAW factory, twenty years ago Wham...forty odd years it was the Monkees. And even when the music is painfully earnest and 'real' it still exerts equal pressure on those at the bottom of the heap.
I would say that pop has always been a mix of the three things you describe, Madonna being one of the best examples, Vogue being an artform, a commodity and extremely manufactured. Hear'Say have sunk, the evidence from other countries is that after the amazingly successful first single there bands, groups and singers disappear within a year. All is as it ever is. |
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