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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Produced by Meath and Sanborn, the album is said to pair environmental dread and personal upheaval with ecstatic dance music.
    — Spin Staff, SPIN, 21 July 2026
  • Techno and dance music were blaring throughout the space next to the San Diego Bay, with separate lines (after the big main line) once participants got inside.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 July 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
  • For a venue still writing its opening chapter, Planet Pride offered an early proof point that a single Brooklyn dancefloor could hold multiple countries and cultures at once with the communities that built dance music filling the room.
    — Jeff Benjamin, Forbes.com, 2 July 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
  • Popular producers/DJs/remixers Two Friends offer contemporary electric dance music (EDM) to move one’s body.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 8 July 2026

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