YOU MAKE ME WANT TO DANCE

TRANCE / MELODIC / PROGRESSIVE HOUSE

Dance music is considered to be among the top three most popular music genres in the world. The genre is characterized by its repetitive beats and a synthesized backing track that features sound samples. Its features make it danceable, making it popular in nightclubs. Although previous examples of dance music (the waltz and mazurka) were common, the genre we know today has its roots in the 19th and 20th centuries. There are numerous subgenres of dance music. Disco is one of the most common subgenres. It blends soul, funk, rhythm, and pop, and its roots can be traced to New York City in the 1970s. Disco's features include deep bass lines, strong beats, and the use of electronic instruments. Another genre includes techno and synthpop, which emerges in the 1980s, and is characterized by keyboard and electronic drums. Dance music songs are not necessarily produced for dancing but have an upbeat tempo and fun sensibility. This is a subgenre of house music and emerged in the 1990s in the U.K.'s popular club scenes. Depending on the group, the subgenre's emergence was supposed to either give fans an alternative to rock music or elevate rock music's value by introducing other features, hence the term progressive. The term progressive was used with a marketing connotation and the primary aim of differentiating the new rave house from traditional American house music. Stylistically, progressive house music is a "mishmash" of numerous other genres. It borrows heavily from Eurodance, Italo house, deep house, and dub music. It can be differentiated from other genres that emerged later largely due to its lack of anthemic choruses. Additionally, it also lacks crescendos and drum rolling. Its intensity varies throughout the song, with phrases being a product of two bars and often starting with a different melody or rhythm.