Where does elevator music come from?
I mean is there a company that sells elevator music to businesses? Is it it’s own genre of music – “things to fall asleep to”? Just wondering because I feel like it’s so universal yet where does it come from? Who thought it’d be a good idea to put the most boring music ever in a place where you spend 30 seconds of your life?
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There’s a tiny little band of elves,behind the walls,playing the instrumental versions of your Fav classics !
My nightmares. 0
I actually had a meltdown in a store once when I noticed that Hall & Oates song, “Family Man” had been turned to elevator music. I’m not kidding.
Halfway down the River Styx is the island of Muzak, near the pitts of Hell.
All elevator music emminates from within.
It’s a place where musicians work in little cubicles cranking out this crap like excel spreadsheets. Seriously.
Middle of the fucking road.Which coincidentally is the best place to put whoever plays that shit.
these are all really funny :) I just don’t understand who was the genius (and I use that word lightly) who thought of putting this horrible music wherever people would already not want to enjoy themselves… if that makes any sense.
@shadling21 – very interesting.
Slow music (in groceries for example) makes people shop longer, go slower, etc. It’s marketing ad nauseum.
Ahhh…the heavens above! snickers
Producing elevator music is a laborious taxidermy-like process that involves hunting and killing a pop song. The hunter then hangs the song from a tree and cuts it open at the neck and throat in order to remove its guts and render it bloodless. Next the meat is carefully removed leaving only the skeleton and skin. The song’s body cavity is then filled with either treacle syrup (old method) or saccharine (current method) until it has some semblance of its original shape and finally it is shipped to the store or elevator for heavy rotation.
I wonder if there is any benefit to it. Sure it is easy to poke fun of, but maybe it just acts as a kind of white noise that helps eliminate embarrassing silences.
@Trillian ty. I would be remiss in not crediting Phillis’ Troll Recipe for inspiration though.
duh!, the country of Elevator in Northern Europe. It’s just North of Stairwayland in the Baltics.
The native music is like its people, drone and monotonous.
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