fast food music

noun

Popular music lacking any deep meaning.

Meanings

nounfast food music (uncountable)
  1. uncountableentertainmentPopular music lacking any deep meaning.

    Beastie Boy Adam Yauch, a political activist for a free Tibet and a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism, links "fast food" music to American culture's lack of spiritual understanding.

    1996 November 9, Billboard, number 45, page 79
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    Many compared the music to the tremendous new popularity of the fast-food industry: quick songs with easily memorized lyrics and melodies, a fast-food music for a fast-food generation.

    2007, Scott Lloyd Marcus, Music in Egypt: experiencing music, expressing culture, page 161
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