> K-Pop is also becoming more widely popular outside of Asian countries (see BTS), Its probably more accurate to say k pop has already peaked its been popular

> K-Pop is also becoming more widely popular outside of Asian countries (see BTS), Its probably more accurate to say k pop has already peaked its been popular massively in the west for almost a decade since at least 2016 Blackpink, newjeans, and BTS are all mega acts that are on their nth albums, the trend for kpop is fully established not really emerging just now. You do raise an extremely good ontopic point about gorillaz being a prior example of a fictional band. I always hated their mtv cribs episode because their fake animated house always scored no.1 on the best of cribs lists.