Is pop music a mass produced commodity or a genuine art form?

In my eyes, it can and it can not be. For example, a contemporary artist like Cheryl Cole who is doing well in todays charts, etc, would be seen by most as a mass produced commodity, someone who is simply having their moment now and that in five years time there will be another Cheryl Cole regurgitating the same sounding songs that every interested eleven year old will rush out to buy, but on the other hand there is another contemporary artist like Adele, who is also topping the charts, yet has taken two years out to write songs and work closely with producers to create an album which will not only perform well in the charts, but that will stand the test of time. It's this example that leads me to believe that yes, the majority of today's popular music consists of songs crafted by the same producers for the mass market, accentuating similarities, but this doesn't stand for all existing and well performing artists of today, as artists such as Adele prove so.