[galangalalgol]

I only pay attention to melodies and rarely can even discern the lyrics unless I have them written out as I listen. Even relatively clean vocals like Johnny Cash just wash over me without being understood. The words for me become just another instrument that can play notes. If I can always predict the next series it is boring, if I never can, it is too challenging. In the middle I get dopamine whether I predict the notes or not. The right series of notes can make me feel such varied emotions with no words necessary.

Music discovery used to work for me with pandora, nothing else has. I have no idea if they had better algorithms, or just a better catalog. It doesn't seem to work as well as it once did either.

Tl;dr I don't think it is simply your preference for lyrical content over melodic content that causes the algorithms to fail. They are just bad.