(US, Canada) Bland, inoffensive music played as a background in elevators and businesses (such as offices and shopping malls).
(US, Canada) Bland, inoffensive music played as a background in elevators and businesses (such as offices and shopping malls).
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The British English term for what Americans call elevator music — that soft, inoffensive background music piped into lifts, shopping centres, and waiting rooms to fill awkward silence. Lift music is typically smooth, slow, and deliberately unremarkable, designed to soothe rather than engage. The phrase is also used figuratively to describe any music that is bland, generic, or aggressively unchallenging.
(British) elevator music.
(US) brief, polite, superficial conversation, like that which occurs in elevators.
(Internet slang, derogatory) Music that is lowbrow, popular, generic, mainstream, formulaic and often inoffensive or boring; pop music.