elevator music

Example Sentences

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We’re on the tram now, weird elevator music threatening to drown out the conversation.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2024

It is the elevator music, the Muzak, of potato dishes.

From Salon • May 9, 2024

White House meetings with allies like Yoon might seem like the elevator music of foreign policy, predictable and preprogrammed.

From Washington Post • Apr. 25, 2023

The sheer familiarity of Bacharach's music meant the cleverness of much of it was sometimes overlooked: it was dismissed as "elevator music" or "easy listening".

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2023

He used to be a rap producer, but now he only listens to wack elevator music, because, he says, hip-hop is dead.

From "Booked" by Kwame Alexander