How to Use dance music in a Sentence

dance music

noun
  • As Kneecap left the stage, a DJ started playing dance music.
    — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Hip-hop has also been inextricably linked to dance music since its birth.
    — Terrence O'Brien, The Verge, 26 May 2026
  • Your last two albums moved you into a dance music lane and expanded your audience.
    — Jack Irvin, PEOPLE, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The frenetic electronics of Nineties dance music have rumbled beneath the surface of indie rock and pop for some time now.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 2 June 2026
  • Carpenter has largely performed well on the company's pop lists and those that don't focus on just one style, but lately, it's been all about dance music.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
  • The 16-track album courses through dance music that defined the early aughts, such as Ibiza house, bloghouse, and nu-disco.
    — Kiana Mickles, Pitchfork, 21 Apr. 2026
  • For years, Reznor has remixed his own songs and invited dance music luminaries to perform cosmetic surgery on others.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2026
  • But electronic and dance music has historically been ignored by the Rock Hall.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Particularly in dance music, which I’ve been involved in for a long time, some of this technology was already being used…so what this has done is sped-up.
    — Jeff Benjamin, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • After releasing albums across genres, both country and dance music, there has been growing speculation that the last project in the trilogy could be a rock album.
    — Caché McClay, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Rock and dance music defenders alike have reached for their pitchforks, but Charli isn’t interested in debating or explaining the song to them.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 13 May 2026
  • Fred and early 2000s dance music with the addition of the comedian's singular comedic voice.
    — Ilana Kaplan, PEOPLE, 2 June 2026
  • This conception of dance music as channeling an elevated presence of mind in an unbound flow state (or whatever) is both galaxy-brained and complete nonsense.
    — Harry Tafoya, Pitchfork, 1 May 2026
  • Zouglou is a type of dance music that originated in Ivory Coast in the 1990s, known for its upbeat rhythm and lyrics about everyday life.
    — Tom Burrows, New York Times, 5 June 2026
  • In the back of the room, some audience members danced—including the Gallery’s Nicky Siano, who had introduced Russell to dance music at his club.
    — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 27 June 2026
  • The first album released was 2022’s Renaissance, which took a macro view of hundreds of years of dance music and zeroed on ballroom as a specific focal point.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2026
  • This double bill features two superstars of bachata, a dance music that originated in the Dominican Republic.
    — Jim Kiest, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Mar. 2026
  • European dance music rhythms collide with contemporary hip-hop deliveries and progressive metal bass undertones as if they were always meant to coalesce.
    — Miki Hellerbach, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2026
  • Raye brings a masterpiece to Jazz Fest Rachel Agatha Keen, better known as Raye, is a British pop star whose music incorporates influences from soul, jazz, hip-hop, and dance music.
    — Al Shipley, SPIN, 21 Apr. 2026
  • After Daft Punk’s rise from underground dance music heroes to chart-topping pop insurgents, Bangalter followed different muses in different directions.
    — Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 8 June 2026
  • Returning for its fourth installment, PierPlay took over a portion of the iconic Santa Monica Pier, adding the vibes of thundering dance music to a truly unique community event.
    — Danny Klein, SPIN, 26 June 2026
  • The innovations of Berlin’s Basic Channel in the mid-’90s led to a whole new way of thinking about dance music, introducing countless producers to the possibilities of reverb and delay.
    — Daniel Bromfield, Pitchfork, 8 June 2026
  • The Campbell Summer Concert Series kicks off July 9 with Sonic Addiction covering dance music from the ’60s forward.
    — Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 28 June 2026
  • Immediately afterwards, international dance music bigwigs such as Carl Cox, Martin Garrix, David Guetta, and Peggy Gou took over the sound system to get everyone on the dance floor.
    — Stefania Conrieri, Vanity Fair, 6 June 2026
  • Other Saturday highlights included an indie throwback set from Passion Pit, a prideful performance from Rainbow Kitten Surprise, powerful vocals from Teddy Swims in the rain and dance music energy from Rüfüs Du Sol.
    — Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 June 2026
  • With Paradise, the plan was to push further into the history of Swedish dance music with his core producers, including fellow Swedes Eurohead and Varg along with the Aussie Jamesjamesjames, recording together as SWEDM while bunkered up in Phuket last summer.
    — Harry Thorfinn-George, Pitchfork, 27 Apr. 2026
  • In Madonna and Stuart Price’s manifesto for the singer’s forthcoming record, CONFESSIONS II, the duo has tapped into the transcendental properties of dance music.
    — Harry Tafoya, Pitchfork, 1 May 2026

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