Unfortunately, it translates into kohl-eyed pantomime, rather than cathartic music, with lyrics so hopelessly trite they sound like a feel-good tract for preschoolers.

Irritating, trite lyrics that would sound inane if written by a dim, immature 14 year old.

In her hands, even trite lyrics can sound profound.

With their stiff, martial tunes and trite, fill-in-the-blank lyrics, they reduce complicated, passionate people to dull abstractions.

Music professor Vincent Benitez acknowledges that the song is "danceable," but also calls it "superficial" and "an inane pop song with trite lyrics and images."

"Make it new," Ezra Pound urged in 1914, and these jazz modernists do so by revivifying trite lyrics and melodies.

Dull tunes, trite lyrics, indie-by-numbers image.

The cheap synth sounds, the nursery rhyme melody, the trite lyrics.

A writer of Rolling Stone felt that "The sweet music of 'Honesty' is sabotaged by trite lyrics".

Texas Monthly remarked that "though Satcher is occasionally guilty of trite lyrics or oversinging, her career is off to a promising start."