'''Basic Trope''': The lyrics in a song are impossible to understand.
* '''Straight''': The lyrics of the song "Troperia" are very difficult to understand.
* '''Exaggerated''': The entire soundtrack has nonsense lyrics.
* '''Downplayed''': WordSaladLyrics
** SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein
* '''Justified''':
** The singers are so drunk at the time of recording that their speech is slurred.
** The singers sang competently,but their recording equipment had issues that could not be fixed in post.
** The singer made the lyrics up on the fly.
* '''Inverted''':
** The lyrics are sung in perfect, clear pronunciation.
** The lyrics are performed competently, but the drums are out of sync and each instrument is playing in a different key, making the instrumentals an incoherent mess.
* '''Subverted''':
** The lyrics turn out to be written in a foreign language.
** The lyrics were recorded backward.
** The lyrics consist entirely of made-up words.
* '''Double Subverted''':
** ...which is still incomprehensible in that foreign language...
** ...and the lyrics still don't string together.
** The made-up words mean nothing.
* '''Parodied''': Those are the actual lyrics. "Troperia"'s section in the lyrics booklet just says: "Who the hell knows what we said?"
* '''Zig-Zagged''': Only some part of the lyrics are unintelligible.
* '''Averted''':
** The lyric is intelligible.
** The song is an instrumental, and ''has'' no lyrics.
* '''Enforced''':
** Concealing lyrics or their meaning to evade censorship.
** The band is a BlackMetal band.
** The song wasn't in their native language.
* '''Lampshaded''': The band releases a statement saying that it doesn't matter what the song's about since nobody will be able to understand any of it anyway.
* '''Invoked''': The band deliberately had it edited to be indistinct as they felt it blended better.
* '''Exploited''': In an early video game, the soundcard is incapable of reproducing clear speech so instead of going without or using instrumental they use genres that have it as the norm.
* '''Defied''': The producers and/or engineers don't let the band into the studio when they come in to record "Troperia" intoxicated.
* '''Discussed''': Part of the lyrics include "if I could hear myself a minute ago, I would ask: 'what?'"
* '''Conversed''': "Hold on, what did he just sing? Lady Mondegreen? Ladle pondering?" "Yeah, that's weird. At least it's followed by a sick guitar solo."
* '''Deconstructed''': The listeners get frustrated over the attempt to make out the lyrics and stop buying the song "Troperia."
* '''Reconstructed''': The listeners start to enjoy trying to comprehend the lyrics.
* '''Plotted a Good Waste''': "Troperia" is the ending track of a concept album depicting a man's [[SanitySlippage slow downward spiral into insanity]], and the lyrics get harder and harder to parse as the man's condition worsens.
* '''Played for Horror''': The song is about supernatural beings, and it is implied that some lyrics are indecipherable because YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm of said beings.
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%%Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
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