It's not just white noise

So I decided to use the Office since I was watching it anyways. Now the Office was an interesting case because there isn't really background music throughout the show. Rather, the producers of the show play a track of various office noises, such as beeping phones and muted conversations, throughout the episode. This really enhances the feel that what you're watching is in fact a real office setting because such nosies would be present regardless of what people are doing in the foreground. That's not to say that music is never utilized in the show, rather it is only present when a character is directly interacting with it. Music is never just playing in the background separate from the environment of the show. I found this interesting in that it highlights how often we do use background music in tv shows. This to me seems very reminiscent of movies in that producers often use it to dramatically enhance certain points in shows, as directors often do in films. When you think about it however, this is kind of an odd concept because nobody's going to play "Born to Run" for you while you're trying to escape the zombie apocalypse. That may have been a poor example