Coworker Music

Definition

The audio wallpaper of corporate America—mainstream, impossibly inoffensive tracks that soundtrack your soul-crushing 9-to-5. Think Maroon 5, Imagine Dragons, and every song that's ever played in a Target. It's the musical equivalent of beige walls: designed to exist in the background while offending absolutely no one, serving as conversational filler for colleagues who've run out of weather-related small talk.

Example Usage

The coffee shop switched to coworker music after someone complained about the indie playlist, so now we're blessed with Ed Sheeran on infinite loop.

Source: Urban Dictionary (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Coworker%20Music&defid=18295621)

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