alt-pop culture WI #2: American music more commericalized

[Straha]

This WI needs a little bit of set up. The popular music of Japan,
Korea, and Chinese speaking countries is refered to J-Pop, K-Pop, and
C-Pop, respectively. It tends to be heavily commericial and
manufactured although there are a few genuine rock musicians in Japan,
Korea, and the Chinese speaking countries. In this what if A-Pop will
refer to American manufactured pop music and B-Pop is the British
equivalent.

Is there anyway we can get popular music in the West to dominated
by a machine to the extent that it is Japan and the East Asian
countries? American music was heavily manufactured in the early 1960s
and during the Disco era and to a certain extent the present but never
to the extent that it was in Japan.