Have you ever actually ridden in an elevator that played music? I’m not sure I can remember ever having that experience.
Of course, I’m familiar with the term “elevator music”. And I don’t doubt music in elevators was a thing or anything. But I’m surprised to hear it’s a thing now-a-days.
I think I’ve probably been in elevators in establishments where music was playing over a speaker system, and the music was audible in the elevator, but the music was never only in the elevator as far as I can recall.
The self cleaning public toilets in my city always play an instrumental version of What the World Needs Now Is Love.
It feels like it must be an inside joke of some kind. The song, without its singer or lyrics, is relatively unremarkable.
Can’t have Grandma twerking on the way up to her doctor’s appointment.
maybe it’s a way to make the ambient feel “elegant” and classy it happens a lot in clothing stores
It’s been years since I’ve heard music in an elevator.
They start jumpin, jumpin, jump up jump up, everybody jumpin jump up jump up
It’s all thanks to the Muzak company and studies in the 50s/60s that suggested bland music made people work better.
There’s an article on it here to get started.
I set up the system to allow elevator music in the waiting room at a clinic, and gave it to the receptionist with instructions on how to use it… That clinic gets very Honky-Tonk. All the time.
