there is alot of difference between someone writing a broadsheet 200 years ago to sell in a local community for a few pennies, and manufactured boy bands who have no artistic control over their music, it may be a matter of degree but is a fucking great huge degree. the singers who bought the broadsheets were free to interpret the songs and alter them, the modern popboy bands that are put together for the sole purpose of commercial gain are told exactly what they have to sing, how to sing it, think about it, it is veryt different