elevator music
noun
: instrumental arrangements of popular songs often piped in (as to an elevator or retail store)
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Tufnel and his wife own a cheese shop in an English village; St. Hubbins writes elevator music and is working on a score for a horror film called Night of the Assisted Living Dead; Smalls operates a glue museum.
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Christopher J. Scalia, The Washington Examiner, 26 Sep. 2025
Customers rarely remember the exact response time, unless they were tortured with on-repeat elevator music.
—Tayfun Bilsel, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
The radios by default play calming elevator music, perhaps for the apprehensive.
—Alex Golden, Axios, 28 May 2025
The climactic battle feels hasty in the moment, but dragging it out any longer — or worse, having to make everyone recite the usual vampire-killing rules — would have been duller than elevator music.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025
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Christopher J. Scalia, The Washington Examiner, 26 Sep. 2025
Customers rarely remember the exact response time, unless they were tortured with on-repeat elevator music.
—Tayfun Bilsel, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
The radios by default play calming elevator music, perhaps for the apprehensive.
—Alex Golden, Axios, 28 May 2025
The climactic battle feels hasty in the moment, but dragging it out any longer — or worse, having to make everyone recite the usual vampire-killing rules — would have been duller than elevator music.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025
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“Elevator music.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/elevator%20music. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.
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