manufactured pop was a thing long before 1990 Here's a short snippet from Wikipedia that illustrates it[1]: Bubblegum pop is a genre of pop music with a

manufactured pop was a thing long before 1990 Here's a short snippet from Wikipedia that illustrates it[1]: Bubblegum pop is a genre of pop music with an upbeat sound contrived and marketed to appeal to pre-teens and teenagers, that may be produced in an assembly-line process, driven by producers and often using unknown singers. Bubblegum's classic period ran from 1967 to 1972. A second wave of bubblegum started two years later and ran until 1977 Hmmm... Seem familiar? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubblegum_pop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubblegum_pop