Back in the day we though smoke and mrrors had peaked at an all time high when Britney Spears had her monumental success. But it was quickly surpassed and the industry kept declining more and more and people like Beyonce or Rihanna took it (or their teams) to a whole new level. Beyonce is at least very talented in many aspects (but the building of her career has been so smoke and mirror-ish it is almost scary. And Rihanna and other bland people (yes Taylor Swift for example too) who would have never made it to mainstream for this long a couple of decades ago is just appalling. Not scary but sad.