1 | '''Basic Trope''': The soothing [[ElectronicMusic Muzak]] played in an elevator. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Alice gets in an elevator, which is playing soothing Muzak. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': |
4 | ** The song is a Muzak version of a well-known song, rather than just generic Muzak. |
5 | ** Everyone in the elevator begins [[CrowdSong a sing-along]]. |
6 | ** The Muzak can be heard everywhere in the building, not just in the elevators. |
7 | ** Every elevator in the city plays the same Muzak. |
8 | * '''Downplayed''': The elevator music is intermittent, and leans slightly in the easy listening direction, but is still far from being Muzak. |
9 | * '''Justified''': |
10 | ** Technically, it's illegal to play copyrighted music without paying royalties to record companies, even if it ''is'' to keep people calm and entertained on an elevator or while holding on phone lines; Muzak is a less expensive alternative. |
11 | ** It also (if it doesn't feature any singer) prevents people from becoming upset by offensive lyrics, or the company looking "unprofessional" for playing such. |
12 | ** For a time, this ''was'' TruthInTelevision, although it's [[DiscreditedTrope less common these days]]. (It's [[UndeadHorseTrope usually]] PlayedForLaughs.) |
13 | * '''Inverted''': Over the elevator's intercom, the radio is being played, nothing but well-known hits. |
14 | * '''Subverted''': |
15 | ** The song is not electronic music |
16 | ** Alice doesn't hear Muzak on the elevator |
17 | * '''Double Subverted''': |
18 | ** But it's [[CoveredUp a cover of]] a popular song, in a completely different style or genre than the original |
19 | ** Or it's a song or artist few people have ''ever'' heard of. |
20 | ** But she does hear it when she calls customer service. |
21 | * '''Parodied''': |
22 | ** [[{{Gasshole}} Bob]] [[ToiletHumor farts]] the elevator music. |
23 | ** UncomfortableElevatorMoment |
24 | ** The Muzak becomes HotterAndSexier, and AliceAndBob start the ElevatorGoingDown. |
25 | ** It's the Muzak version of "Look What They've Done To My Song." |
26 | ** The elevator is playing {{Vaporwave}}. |
27 | * '''Zig Zagged''': ??? |
28 | * '''Averted''': The elevator plays no music of any kind over its intercom. |
29 | * '''Enforced''': There is an awkward tension between AliceAndBob and the music adds to the humor. |
30 | * '''Lampshaded''': "This elevator music is terrible." |
31 | * '''Invoked''': ??? |
32 | * '''Exploited''': The mall is hoping the Muzak will make people in the elevator want to buy more stuff. |
33 | * '''Defied''': |
34 | ** The elevator music is classical rather than Muzak. |
35 | ** Operators decide not to play any music at all. |
36 | * '''Discussed''': "Bob, I know this song from somewhere." "Yeah, Girl from Ipanema. They play it all the time in elevators." |
37 | * '''Conversed''': ??? |
38 | ---- |
39 | ''Tall and tan, and young and lovely, The Girl from Ipanema goes walking; and when she passes, each one she passes goes--[[TheElevatorFromIpanema ahhh]].'' |
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41 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
42 | %% |
43 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
44 | %%* '''Deconstructed''': ??? |
45 | %%* '''Reconstructed''': ??? |
46 | %%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ??? |
47 | %%* '''Played For Laughs''': ??? |
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