lift music
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.
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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.
The hotel lobby was playing the kind of lift music that makes you forget you have ears.
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(British) elevator music.
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