What is a hipster? Look at this fucking hipster...

What were the girl groups of the Sixties if not 'manufactured'? Didn't write their own songs, didn't have any say in anything including how they dressed or did their hair. Still made wonderful records.

Perhaps you've missed my point.
Let them be.

But... I'd argue a little bit. Back then they'd take a raw talent (but still a talent) and use for their own gains, play the game according to their rules. Their being producers, investors, media.

Right now it sometimes slip producers' minds to test for the talent. It's more the right shape of tits to fit the rest of the ensemble. Or one boy gay, the other pretty, third a bad boy and fourth a caveman...