'People should take a nuanced approach when talking about this stuff, instead of flattening everything.' The Indiana-based DJ and historian MoMA_PS5 breaks down the influences in Beyoncé and Drake’s new music and shares an exclusive house mix.
Don’t Break My Soul,” Beyoncé’s latest track, a house music revival that features Big Freedia, the legendary queer Black icon known for popularizing New Orleans bounce, has the internet aflame. In fact, many of its reviewers have minimized the legacy of house music, a genre with deep roots in the Chicago and Detroit nightlife scenes that fueled the queer Black liberation movement in the ’80s.
MACIAS: The reactions have been mixed, depending on what part of the internet you look at. To the trained ear, the song is rooted in house music. Why do you think people were so shocked that she did that? . Can you explain, for those who don’t know, the origins of house music? Why is it important that she goes hard if she is touching on those roots?
MOMA PS5: House music in the context of Black American history is well over 30 years old. The sub-genres grow, spread, and move so fast. Right now, we’re at a point in history where the discourse around queerness and other cultures responsible for developing house music has to be very nuanced. We can start with Drake.
MACIAS: The debate that’s happening online seems to be centered around whether house music is being reintroduced, or just reaching the mainstream. But my question is, did house music ever really die? MOMA PS5: It’s really exciting. I will even go as far as saying that the line between mainstream and underground is pretty much blurred. We can see that with artists like Kanye West. When he madehe employed a lot of experimental electronic artists. Beyoncé’s team plucks people from Instagram, and she collaborates with artists from around the world. Even Charli XCX who came from the underground scene, has obviously inspired Beyoncé, because they’re both flirting with dance music.
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