How to Use house music in a Sentence

house music

noun
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  • The artist, legally known as Kendall Wyman, is one to watch within the bassline house music scene.
    — Lisa Kocay, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • In the late morning, a few of us went to a camp called Bubbles and Bass for champagne and house music.
    — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The house music cuts, banana-yellow spirals light the walls and whirl.
    — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 4 Apr. 2024
  • My soundtrack was a mix of electronic, R&B and house music from the '80s, '90s and early aughts.
    — Ray A. Smith, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Revelers dance and sweat on the asphalt to Black house music mixed with African and Afro-Latino rhythms.
    — Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Plus, guests will be wowed by electrifying sounds and beats from world-class acts in dance and house music.
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 28 Mar. 2024
  • As a French person, house music has always had a big impact on my life.
    — Danny Klein, SPIN, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Dancing to some house music with a spiked Baja Blast in one hand and a Crunchwrap in the other doesn't sound outlandish to me.
    — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Raves, or rave parties, emerged in the late 1980s as electronic music (now known as EDM) and house music began to hit the scene.
    — Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Mar. 2023
  • That Max Martin-producer dancefloor-ready banger used house music to kiss off her haters and shimmy to the top of the Billboard Hot 100.
    — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 9 Mar. 2024
  • While Chicago might be known for its style of urban blues and for inventing house music, hip-hop also has rich ties to the city.
    — Rebecca Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The gesture was far from the only local connection in the 150-minute set, much of which paid tribute to house music, a style born in Chicago.
    — Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2023
  • In the past five to ten years, two offshoots of house music have dominated South African airwaves: gqom and amapiano.
    — Lior Phillips, Variety, 5 May 2023
  • His recent style is house music, which is currently taking the dance music scene by storm in the United States.
    — Lisa Kocay, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Arrive on the scene for tropical house music every Sunday at the Sound Garden on the patio.
    — Robin Soslow, Chron, 18 Feb. 2023
  • In South Africa, the pulse of house music was transformed—and, often, decelerated.
    — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 14 July 2023
  • With house music now a global phenomenon and commercial force, what’s your take on the current scene?
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 24 Mar. 2023
  • With música Mexicana, a lot of the lyrics and the melodies are very traditional sounding but the production delves house music or dembow.
    — Thania Garcia, Variety, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Since entering the dance scene nearly a decade back, Spencer Brown has made his name on progressive house music that’s lush, emotive and pristinely produced.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The wedding celebrations continued late into the night, as guests were seen in a video dancing to house music outdoors and later to a silent disco.
    — Michael Lee Simpson, Peoplemag, 25 June 2023
  • Several are people Rachael, who’s been involved with house music from the beginning, once considered to be close friends.
    — Oli Coleman, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2023
  • In the world of underground house music, there’s no guarantee that an irresistible track will travel; many of the finest producers barely earn streams.
    — Elias Leight, Billboard, 9 June 2023
  • Throughout the new film, Bey shares stories of her uncle, recalling how the pair used to dancing together to house music throughout her childhood.
    — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Black people have long been pioneers, helping to originate a plethora of musical genres, from rock ‘n’ roll, to country, to house music, jazz and the blues.
    — Essence, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Either way, his thumping trance and house music set should shake things up here this weekend when headlines the Horizon Music Series festival.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 June 2023
  • An acolyte of Brian Eno’s with an ear for mainstream pop, Gibson, who performs as Fred again.., makes sample-heavy but polished house music with enough emotional thrust to resonate with people not in the mood to dance.
    — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
  • This brunch party will have a local DJ spinning vinyl records from a variety of music genres including disco, funk, soul and house music.
    — The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2024
  • After high school and transitioning, my good friend Ruby created this house music night every Sunday in Hawaii in the early 2000s.
    — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 18 Oct. 2023
  • In the main area, about five thousand people were bobbing and waving along with an English d.j. named Chris Lake, who played a set full of muscular and rubbery dance tracks, rarely straying for too long from the unifying thump of house music.
    — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 14 July 2023
  • Barnes became a whiz at house, typically performed to house music with rapid, intricate footwork and rippling movements of the torso.
    — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2023

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