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piped music

light popular music prerecorded and played through amplifiers in a shop, restaurant, factory, etc., as background music
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But the debate extends beyond elevator music. As AI capabilities improve, it's possible--probable even--that the songs will become good enough that we'd opt to listen to them, for instance, while working or driving.
Sound It's mostly elevator music, which adds to the ennui, punctuated by vioLent sound design around the physical comedy.
It starts as a sombre dirge, goes through a couple of verses, bursts into a madly upbeat keyboard riff that sounds like a cross between elevator music and (in the words of its co–creator Midge Ure) "the theme from Z Cars", then pauses to throw in one of the most melodramatic (yet oddly affecting) middle eights in all of rock ("here's to them, underneath that burning sun"), before climaxing in a kind of Syd Barrett, schoolplayground, round–robin singsong.
If none of his sounds like "elevator music," as the format is so often labelled, that's because in Warden's view, "The continuing popularity of the music is proof that there's life beyond electronica."
Tucci brought some light and geeky humour to an out of film character scene involving elevator music and karate fighting in a Hong Kong lift.
The sampled elevator music and off-kilter vocals give the confection of a song a necessary push, making what could have been annoying into something of a delight.
The CP Group settled on the Proto Post Modern Feminist Thrash Elevator Music band, Pregnant Lesbians, as our partnering organisation of choice.
When Chinese officials meet at international conferences such as the one in Shanghai, they often talk about "win-win cooperation." It's a soothing concept and it has become the elevator music of international meetings.
As a presenter, the lead actress nominee noted the show's cheesy elevator music soundtrack: "Is this music available on CD?"
Elevator music doesn't say anything about your company's culture.
As my eyes glazed over and the elevator music started playing in my head I asked the question again: "But, is it a good price at BD3?" I carried on to a cascade table close by and found Francis, Vida and John eyeing men's summer graphic shirts at BD2 for one or two for BD3.5.
Then set to a background of elevator music Branson says "try treating her or him to something delicious using the new seat to seat feature of red"
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