meaning of "Canned applause"

[Ralahpik]

There's a fragment of a song that says: " I like canned aplause". I looked up the word canned and it means stereotyped. I deduce that is something like the audience is not satisfied but it's pretending that they are.
Or is it an idiom?

[Yankee]

Hi Ralahpik

I imagine that "canned applause" is "prerecorded applause". This might be added to the sound track of something recorded in a studio so that it sounds like it was recorded in front of a live audience (rather than in a studio). And, yes, it would be done in order to suggest that there was an enthusiastic audience listening.

I'd say that "canned laughter" is probably a more commonly used expression. This is the prerecorded laughter that you often hear in sit-coms.
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ESL teacher, and native speaker of American English

[Ralahpik]

Gracias Yankee!