I am a proponent of music as source of natural input. It is accessible, portable, both aural and visual (lyrics), and most importantly: enjoyable.
Pay particular note in this article to the discussion of Medina's work pairing music with the input hypothesis. Though the study found no statistically significant difference between acquisition with or without music, that lack of difference is worth noting. If true, then we should expect to find the same results whether we are including music in our studies or not. Thus, if music is enjoyable to the learner it can be included without fear of performance degradation.
Music can be seen as an exaggeration of language, but it is not gibberish (really!). Like any normal utterance, it is a message encoded in a sound system following a generally prescribed form. We CAN learn from music.
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