ear candy
nounEtymology Likely analogous to eye candy.
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Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music US, Colloquial Light popular music that has an instant appeal but no lasting impact or significance.
- Mumba's music is ear candy: it crunches, it bubbles, it melts in the mouth.2000 November 27, Christopher John Farley, “Irish Spring”, in Time, →ISSN, archived from the original on 12 Aug 2014:
- I wanted it to just be something fun to listen to, like ear candy. I think that's what we got.2013, Mathew Klickstein, quoting Rachel Sweet, Slimed!, Penguin, →ISBN, page 129:
- Related terms
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