After reading this piece called “The 10 Easiest Things Dance Songs Ask of You”, I realized that I had previously thought the only way you could tell dance music from non-dance music was the BPMs, the infectious grooves and that fact that people want to dance to it. But it’s also true that the ubiquitous nature of the imperative mood is a factor in determining if what you’re hearing is dance music or not.
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That’s probably why I find it so amusing when dance music discusses dancing in a purely declarative mood. The normal response, when someone says, “I like to move it” or “This is how we do it” is not to dance, but to be informed about what they like or how they do it. But merely being informed is clearly not the response intended here.