hmm.

When Take That originally split up nearly 12 years ago, it caused a meltdown amongst a certain sector of teenagers. Crisis hotlines had to be set up to deal with suicidal girls, and broadsheet newspapers were filled with with pictures of distraught, crying, fainting fans with messages of love scrawled on their faces. Now, the band have reformed and thier come-back album has become the biggest selling record of thier career. Yet despite them selling more records now than they have before, I bet if they were to split again tomorrow it wouldn't cause anywhere near the same scale of chaos as it originally. Why? You could argue that it''s because they're now appealing to an older, and so calmer and more grounded, market. But if a more recent boyband (say, Mcfly, for example) were to suddenly disemband, I doubt it would cause more than a small ripple through the nation. Are teens and pre-teens just less obsessive than they used to be? And if so, why?