IPod mini only plays background music! Can't hear the lyrics!?!

I don't even know how this happens... but my ancient iPod mini, the battery of which i had replaced a few years ago, has never failed me until now.
Every time I play a song, the lyrics are inaudible and all I hear is the background music, backup vocals, etc. This would be great if I were playing karaoke. But I want to hear the full song! Does anyone know how I can fix this? I thought maybe the EQ or soundcheck was messing with the mp3 so I turned both off but the problem persists.
Any ideas?

First of all, me being a instrumentalist would say: Who cares? Vocals suck! All they do is add meaning to a song that the instruments can't portray by themselves.
Anyways, it's a probaly with the headphone jack of your iPod. I bought a dock once and the headphone jack in the back got unsaugheted a bit and it started doing it. I suggest taking it to the store and asking them to saughter the headphone jack on properly or taking your ipod apart (I assume you have before since you replaced the battery) and giving it a good look, push it down a little bit and see if that helps.

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