“Elevator music” is such a widely recognized and referenced term, but yet everytime I am on an elevator there is no damn elevator music
It’s a term that was derived from the mid 20th century when elevators had music. it was a short catchy tune so that people wouldn’t just stand in awkward silence but eventually elevators stopped having them. It’s a term similar to “rolling down the windows” in which it was made in a time in which it was pesent and evolved into a generic term that people question why it’s calls such.