Culture is as culture does. I dare say that the in-group for any star has their buttons - whether the conditions to push those buttons are legitimate or otherwise, would Chappell Roan be on your mind if she wasn't pushing your buttons? Marketing people know this mechanism all too well; it is a large factor for why we have billion-dollar tabloid machines.

Needless to say, the pop industry is all about creating a facsimile of a thing, if not the thing itself. You're not buying bread from these stars - you're buying a picture of life.