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

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

Muzak, the purveyors of elevator music, had become a complete joke by the 1990s when it found many of the players in the Seattle grunge scene working in its offices.

From Slate • Jun. 15, 2021

Different elevator music was playing since my last visit—that old disco song "Stayin’ Alive."

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan