A thoughtful response, Helen, and I agree about the melody/lyric dichotomy, and I too fall on the side of melody. I like all music in which I recognise the structure, which precludes rap and free jazz. I think it is the sheer repetition that annoys the shite out of me. Recently, I was spellbound by Dido's going down with the ship business, because it is folk, and it struck the personal chord it was meant to, but having heard it repeated 16 times a day until it left Number 1, I have grown heartily sick of it. Now they're beating the next Dido single to death. So that's my beef, repetition ad nauseum.