repetitive, monotonous, tedious, tiresome, overlong, formulaic, banal, rote, digressive, trite, uninteresting, wordy, boring, hackneyed, unoriginal, stagey, melodramatic, nonsensical, superfluous, uninventive, wearisome, scattershot, disjointed, cliched, unenlightening, winded, pointless, ponderous, unmelodic, simplistic, overdramatic, longwinded, annoying, draggy, unenjoyable, uncreative, dirgelike, obtuse, disjunctive, stagy, overfamiliar, nitpicky, dissonant, unfocused, pedantic, staccato, expository, overwrought, discursive, silly, laborious, unentertaining, unimaginative, talky, didactic, verbose, mindless, unintelligible, vacuous, convoluted, stilted, inessential, hokey, maudlin, denotative, vapid, reductive, toneless, stale, dull, overdetermined, unmusical, hyperbolic, tautological, shopworn, punny, declamatory, pretentious, comical, catchy, predictable, unfocussed, interruptive, indecipherable, decipherable, tuneless, hypnotic, pointillistic, clumsier, rhythmical, melismatic, tu quoque, effortful, distracting, plagiaristic, atonal, screechy, prolix, unsustained, aphoristic, perfunctory, tricksy, rhythmic, reiterative, imitative, meaningless, ritualized, routinized, choreographed, ritualistic, scripted, incantatory, stereotyped, contrapuntal, masturbatory, repeatable

drilled, gratification, humdrum, monotonous, work song

iterative, reiterative, repetitive, unvaried, unvarying