Personally, I’m not surprised that Cher was one of the first to use this shitty crutch which has become a standard practice in sorry excuses for music and lazy comedy. The annoying, no-talent older sister of Madonna needed something to get attention.
According to the NPR story I caught this morning discussing it, Auto-Tune’s inventor said he originally developed it to fix an occasional error real singers made. My guess, this would be performers who only do one take like Sinatra or Elvis, otherwise, the solution is sing it again. Not the whole song, digital editing can piece together the best parts of every take. If you’re too lazy to redo a section with a bad or off-key note, you probably suck.
Thanks a lot you boneheaded engineering guy!. Now you’ve given false hope to even more, no-talent sociopath nepo babies.