Its not just them....

The exploitation in showbiz goes back to before Thucydides... Although in the case of the YHBOYS, they're Chinese....which means they've been brainwashed by the CCP since birth about the greater good of the party. Besides....I'm sure that deep down they realize they have it made in that society right now, where they have SOME nice things and ain't stuck getting paid a pittance making athletic shoes for Nike. But these manufactured boy band acts have always exploited their members and put them under extreme pressures...of ALL kinds. Ricky Martin had some real horror stories to tell about his time with Menudo and Raz-B "blew the gaff" off of what really went on behind the scenes with the R&B act B2K..... Although Ricky seems to have survived it all well and made a name for himself on The Great White Way. Up until the theaters closed due to the Kung Flu, he was singing the role of Che Guevara in the Broadway revival of "Evita"..... He's a killer and a gunman and he'll make you bleed, shoot'cha in the back or in your sleep.... got no name or identity,..... livin' like the wind he's free!