Are we heading towards a discussion of what constitutes decoration? And, if so, should we be opening a new thread?

But, since I'm already on here, I'd like to express an opinion about what I'd call florid or twirly-wirly singing which -- IMHO -- says more about vocal gymnastics than communication. (It can be very impressive, but I have to wonder whether it actually engages a listener in the sense that there is a shared message.)

But there are singers (Jeannie Robertson and Lizzie Higgins to name but two, plus other current singers) who seem to have access to a wider range of effects -- snap notes, pauses, leaps, slurs and, inevitably, some twiddles -- which are used to point up the text of a song.

After all, if a song has words, surely they have to have some meaning/value….?