The use of digital pitch correction software on vocal recordings

Very important observation for me...

I’ve never felt profound emotions with a vocal recording that used digital pitch correction.

Humans aren’t machines.
The human expression that occurs when a human sings is what we want to hear when we want to hear singing.
If we want to hear a synthesizer, we can listen to a synthesizer.
If the artist gives me a Kraftwerk, Giorgio Moroder, Daft Punk-type thing, I know what to expect.

If a person’s inability to sing on pitch is so problematic, why are they singing at all?

The moving pulse coming from an interpretation is located in this fine line or border between perfection and imperfection... If you artificially created "perfection" you loose the expressive vulnerability and the power of this internal struggle in the artistic gesture which is a tool in the artist body...If you dont master singing for sure "imperfection" as a constant state cannot be a transient expressive tool anymore used by the artist...

This pulsating borderline between perfection and imperfection is the key to the expression... This cannot be artificially created...

As said the great french poet René Char :

"Imperfection is the peak "

Pitch correction allows supremely non-talented flops to proliferate in the pop music field.  Hacks like Post Malone and The Weeknd, who have no actual voices outside of what was concocted with a computer have no place in the annals of music.  Add to that the building superfluousness of live musicians in a recording studio, one sees the future of music as a computer-created corporate entity.  Very, very sad.

@mahgister 
“If you artificially created "perfection" you lose the expressive vulnerability and the power of this internal struggle in the artistic gesture.”  
Beautiful. Thank you.

There seems to be a fetid entitlement with artists these days. 
(imagine whiny little kid voice): “iT’s HaRd tO SiNg. iT’s rEaLLy hArD!!”   
  - You’re right. It is hard.    
“…bUt…bUt…bUt…i WaNNA bE a SiNgEr! iT’s….hArD!!”  
- Well, if it’s so hard, maybe it’s not for you.  
“…bUt…bUt…bUt…i WaNNA bE a SiNgEr! iT’s….hArD!!”

People act like they’re owed everything.  
They say, “iT tAkEs ToO LoNg aNd iT’s tOo eXpEnSiVe WiTh sTuDiO TiMe!”  
- Well, you can practice a lot before you go to the studio, thereby limiting your studio time doing tons of takes and limiting the monetary cost. That’s called, “being professional.”

They act like they’re entitled to crank out sheer PRODUCT with as much ease as possible.

What really gets me is that it doesn’t sound better, either. It sounds worse. 
Digital pitch correction is just bad. Full stop.
 

I cannot fault you at all , on the contrary i think you are right...

It is one of the reason i cannot stand most actual pop music : artificiality...

I did not know about this  digital correcting  tool you spoke about before reading your post... And you are a singer.... That explain a lot for me about what i could not realize being not in this industry nor craftmanship ...Thanks to you...

People act like they’re owed everything.
They say, “iT tAkEs ToO LoNg aNd iT’s tOo eXpEnSiVe WiTh sTuDiO TiMe!”
- Well, you can practice a lot before you go to the studio, thereby limiting your studio time doing tons of takes and limiting the monetary cost. That’s called, “being professional.”

They act like they’re entitled to crank out sheer PRODUCT with as much ease as possible.

What really gets me is that it doesn’t sound better, either. It sounds worse.
Digital pitch correction is just bad. Full stop.

The sound of pitch correction has become a "musical" style by itself, especially in Hippity Hop. I don't listen to pop music much at all except accidentally as I'm too into what I like (mostly jazz), although once in a while a decent band comes along like the Landreth Brothers or somebody with good musicianship but still...meh...I've been a musician a long time and have known or worked with lots of remarkably great singers and none of them needed pitch correction. Guitar tuning maybe...even ol' Bob Dylan with his "barely there" croaky voice generally stays in tune. Am I worried about it? No. I mix small venue shows and you can get off the couch and hit a little club (if one exists near you) and hear some real singers...try that.