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21st May '13 5:18:06 PM MarkLungo

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To most people under age 30 or so, this is the type of music so inoffensive in both sound and structure that it goes around the scale and becomes offensive. While easy listening is a specific genre of music in itself (it's also sometimes negatively referred to as muzak or elevator music), this often gets used as a blanket term to refer to all music with no chance to offend even the most cranky elder. Generally only pops up to portray someone as extremely boring or as a contrast to the significantly more exciting actions happening on screen. Sometimes comes up as part of a gag where the characters are supposed to be doing something exciting, but end up having to wait impatiently. Common settings that has this playing include elevators, waiting rooms, lobbies, and while waiting on hold on an automated phone system. In RealLife, this style of music was relatively popular in the 1970s, with most US markets having at least one easy listening station. By the mid-80s, the style was extinct on the radio.

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