I have lot's of friends in the recording industry.
About 5 years ago I was talking to a friend from Nashville who worked one of her sessions.
Queen of Autotune, was the quote, you are dead on...
I use to engineer recording sessions back in the 80s and 90s until I quit, the crap you have to listen to over and over and over is THE absolute definition of torture and I can’t even imagine what the hell the people who engineer her sessions go through. Her songs are beyond horrific, the absolute definition of cliche, they would fit right in for commercials for Cheeze whiz. That song “Shake it off”, that’s a freakin’ commercial for Weight watchers. I can’t even begin to imagine the hell of listening to that for 3 hours straight, I would shoot myself in the head.
The final straw for me was when I had these Hispanic guys come in who wanted to record the song “Feelings” which is probably the most horrific song ever written. Over and over and over and over take after take after take, and I just walked out after 3 hours, that was it, I didn’t even tell my boss or take his calls, I just promptly disappeared lol lol. To this day he probably thinks I died.