Meaning of functional music | Babel Free

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Music designed to influence mood, behavior, or cognitive state.

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“By championing the lean-back listener, Spotify helped popularize a resurgence of interest in “functional music”, the industry's current preferred way to describe music for sleeping, studying, chilling, focusing, etcetera. Today, functional music is a defining phenomenon of the streaming era, especially mood music for wellness and productivity, which self-improvement culture increasingly renders the same.”

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