Meaning of mood music | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any of various styles of light popular music.
   countable, uncountable
2. A type of functional music to influence the listener's mood.
   countable, uncountable
3. The general mood around a topic.
   countable, figuratively, uncountable

Examples

“Mood music on record had one important distinction: it functioned as Muzak's id. Muzak was confined mostly to moderate tempo arrangements with few if any distractions. But mood music indulged in volatile mood swings forbidden in the workplace: happy to grim, frantic to narcoleptic, sexy to robotic.”

“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.”

“The mood music for Iraq had looked ominous from the end of 2001 and got demonstrably worse when President Bush delivered his now infamous 'axis of evil' State of the Union address (January 2002) […]”

“No organization had been more instrumental than the White Helmets in supplying the mood music for Western military intervention.”

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