Sometime after Cher released her song “Believe”, music producers had the worst idea ever to start throwing auto-tune into every pop song. Gradually, the trend gained steam until we all found ourselves surrounded by music manufactured through a meat grinder. Artists like T-Pain and Ke$ha used it in all their songs so much it was hard to tell who was even singing. The abuse of auto-tune made the songs sound ridiculous. The harsh backlash was inevitable. While the tyranny to our ears has subsided, artists still use auto-tune today either ironically or to subtly fix their bad singing voices.