Boy bands,all-girl groups? Manufacture and contrivance in popular culture?

 We say to popsters singing of "never-ending love" and similar heart-pangs directed at both jilted lovers and abandoned women,

"You're as well raving there as you are in your bed...,"('O Riordain ',Der Spielplan,Il giocco, July-August 1988, Dublin).

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