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Toward a Theory of Burger Music

Pitchfork·Kieran Press-Reynolds·24 days ago
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The most inescapable phrase in the online music underground of late is “burger music.” “Bro, Che is burger music,” the TikTok nanoinfluencer idkzxop said this week. “I’m not gonna elaborate. Because if you’re not a burger, you understand.” “This is just millennial burger music, fire video tho,” an X user wrote about Yung Lean’s recent campfire catharsis tune “STORM.” But what does “burger music” even entail? Is it Instagram Reels rap for people with no taste? A synonym for “coworker music,” itself a convoluted term that usually refers to bad pop songs your blandest colleague would fall for? For now, it seems to mean so many things to so many people that it ends up meaning nothing at all. There’s no exact origin for the phrase.…

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