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Electronic Dance Music as EDM or Dance

QuietHere, I saw your change and edit summary at List of 2007 albums and at Boogie 2nite (album) where you stated "Just writing "dance" is misleading because it's a different genre", and I wanted to write that I disagree. If you go to Electronic dance music, the lead sentence of the article states "Electronic dance music (EDM), also referred to as dance music or club music, is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres originally made for nightclubs, raves, and festivals.", thus EDM may safely be referred to as either Dance music or Club music as much as it may be listed as EDM. There is a redirect that uses the term Dance music (electronic) that returns back to Electronic dance music. The article Dance music lead two sentences states "Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole piece or part of a larger musical arrangement", which to me indicates that it is not a genre. Therefore, I am stating that I disagree with your statement that Electronic dance music cannot be called "dance" because it is a different genre. The only genre of dance that I can find is EDM.

I am not going to change anything in the articles you edited, I just wanted to state that I disagree with your rationale, and for myself, I will continue to convert genre listings where people list it as dance music over to electronic dance music as the only appropriate correction, but I will leave the display link as dance. Mburrell (talk) 23:10, 19 April 2025 (UTC)

@Mburrell Perhaps I should've been more specific about what I meant. When I wrote "different genre", I meant that EDM is a subtype or subgenre of dance music, but that there are plenty of types of non-electronic dance music that also exist within that umbrella and it could be confusing to readers if they click on a link that says "dance music" but are taken to the EDM article. It also could imply that EDM is the only type of dance music which clearly isn't true, and that could be misleading to readers. As an editor, I think it makes more sense to be as clear as possible whether you're referring to all dance music or just EDM specifically. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 01:22, 20 April 2025 (UTC)