How to Use dance music in a Sentence

dance music

noun
  • The new breed of post-rock bands, on the other hand, were cribbing ideas from the worlds of dance music and hip-hop.
    — Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 4 Oct. 2026
  • 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
  • In Ibiza, the dance music capital, Pissenem is the face of this change.
    — Max Marshall, Vanity Fair, 15 July 2026
  • Your last two albums moved you into a dance music lane and expanded your audience.
    — Jack Irvin, PEOPLE, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Gaga credited Polanksy with her return to dance music with last year’s Mayhem.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2026
  • How to pace a 60-minute set at one of the world’s biggest and most consequential dance music festivals.
    — Rachel Narozniak, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2026
  • There’s such a varied, decidedly global approach to dance music on this album.
    — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Or has dance music’s bad rap — as fun but vacuous and unserious — tainted the current version of the genre?
    — Rachel Narozniak, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 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
  • Though hipster cool and irony may have ruled the early part of this century, Hot Chip always cut across with their earnest approach to dance music.
    — David Harris, SPIN, 21 July 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
  • Every morning, the entire complex is enveloped in repetitive dance music adapted from popular songs of twenty years ago.
    — Jonathan Flint, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 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
  • That roundup includes the Billboard Hot 100, as well as lists that are focused on pop, rock, alternative and dance music.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
  • The group’s latest album, August’s Alien Metal, is its furthest venture yet into dance music.
    — Xander Zellner, Billboard, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Discussing salsa’s place in today’s music scene, both artists agreed that while reggaetón offered a different option for dance music, salsa will not disappear.
    — Tere Aguilera, Billboard, 19 Oct. 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, 4 July 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
  • Given Central City’s post-pandemic troubles, amid a boom in dance music across culture more broadly, Origin’s founders hope the scene can do it again.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
  • One of the coolest things happening in hip-hop production right now is the way different isolated microscenes are mining the dance music of the Black diaspora.
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Elsewhere on campus, bass-heavy dance music pulses from a crowded gym class, where an energetic instructor leads around 30 trainees through squats, stretches and lifting drills.
    — Christopher Clark, NPR, 5 July 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
  • After years of sidelining dance music from the Big Four categories, the Grammys have begun to reward it in recent history.
    — Jeff Nelson, PEOPLE, 7 July 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

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