The entertainment business - many are related to each other, although distantly we are often told, showing it is often an insiders club. Then we have stage schools like Sylvia Youngs or BRIT school that churn out many successful acts, just how many are groomed especially for this? I read somewhere Adele got her part as they needed an overweight singer, and she was lucky to get it! With autotune to combining peoples voices then autotuned, even the vocals are not their own. Very few write their own material, so when people analyse someone's lyrics to see if they're awake or not, it's nothing to do with them. I was thinking of Disney and all that's said about it, and remembered this on K-pop (which has become huge the last few years)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-51476159 quite simply people have become desperate to become famous, and will almost do anything for it. X Factor is completely scripted, it's no wonder many leave reality tv shows with mental health issues with what goes on behind the scenes. A friend does the therapy, and they get so little.
ETA for you history fans, worth checking this out on the USA and Canada.
check out the Tartarian empire, been down this rabbit hole recently. How many global resets have there been, are we having another soon?