"The way the debate is being conducted is so bland and repetitive with three men in grey suits throwing insults at each other, it is turning people off," said Conor McGurran, campaigns and citizenship officer at the student union.
In order to concentrate the listener's perception on the rhythm, melodic material – most of it pinched from a book of Lithuanian folk tunes – is extremely simple, sometimes reduced to tiny repetitive patterns of a mere two or three pitches.
I can relate to people that go to church regularly, to a place of worship, where you can get away from your life and listen to extremely slow, repetitive music, to give yourself some solace and engage with ideas that aren't superficial or to do with day-to-day goals and ambitions.
During the boom years in Ireland when you used to have to pay for the privilege to enter some Dublin pubs even before forking out more than ¤5 at the bar for a pint of beer, the nation's taxi drivers had a favourite, repetitive boast.
"Why are we imitating the worst mistakes of 60 or 70 years ago from around the world – only even bigger?" Another development of repetitive slabs, echoing Jabal Omar's toast-rack urbanism, is slated for the northern side of the Grand Mosque, at al-Shamiya, while a $10bn plan to provide an extra 400,000 sq metres of prayer halls there is almost complete.
Maybe it's just all the talk of sugar and of coloured dots and of repetitive patterns of behaviour, but this seems very reminiscent of Candy Crush Saga.
Speaking at the court's annual press conference, Dean Spielmann, the president of the court, said he was concerned at the volume of repetitive cases, which account for more than half of all pending cases.
For work widely devoid of meaning, for electronic entertainment consisting of endless repetitive chatter, for recreation which moves us restlessly round the world, and for the chance to shop in order to escape the pointlessness of shopping".
Back came another wodge of documentation – 20 pages, costing £1.87 in postage – explaining again, in fairly repetitive mystical gibberish to an ancient technophobe, with seven photos of her car and numberplate, why her payment was not acceptable.
When Mr Sarkozy called Mr Hollande a "little slanderer", he fired back: "Coming from your mouth it just becomes repetitive".
