Wow, because I personally don't do it I have no idea how it's done.
Bloody arrogant of you. Listen darling, I am friends with Michelle Phillips, hell we slept together a few times, I watched REAL music being created by real musicians.
I sat in on a Wrecking Crew recording session. If you don't know who they are, then your opinion is pretty worthless. Hell, you didn't even know that Madonna wrote most of her music.
One of my best friends is a close friend of Katy Perry, it was one of her productions being done that I watched the new production methods being used.
I play the guitar, not great, but I can play anything Swift has written. The reason why she is popular is because she writes pop songs for little girls. They are full of angst, and produced by master sound engineers. But those little girls have never heard real great music produced by real great musicians.
But her greatest skill is putting on an entertaining live show. However, she does nothing original. Her shows could have been done by KP, or Madonna, or Kylie Minogue, etc.
I haven't said one bad thing about her other than I know truly great singers and musicians, and she ain't one of them. Which I do thanks to being old.
I got to experience music that you never will, and that is sad. But that is what happens with the passage of time.