What is classified as easy listening music?

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 at 10:28 pm

This may sound dumb, but what exactly is "easy listening"? Any description you can give me would be great .. I’ve always been thinking about it, but never asked (until now, of course.)
If you could give me examples of what some easy listening songs would be that would be nice, but you don’t have to.
Thank you :]
Thank you to everyone (except those select few who commented on farting, and other rude things..lol)!
This helped a lot.