- published: 26 Oct 2015
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House music is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the American city of Chicago, Illinois in the early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discothèques catering to African-Americans and Latinos in Chicago circa 1984. From 1985 onwards, it began to fan out to other cities such as Detroit, Toronto, New York City, Montreal, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Manchester, Miami, London, and Paris. It then reached and began to influence popular music in Europe as a whole, with pop chart hits such as "House Nation" by House Master Boyz and the Rude Boy Of House (1987) and "Doctorin' The House" by Coldcut (1988). Since the early to mid-1990s, house music has been infused in mainstream pop and dance music worldwide.
Early house music was generally dance-based music characterized by repetitive 4/4 beats and rhythms centered around drum machines, off-beat hi-hat cymbals and synthesized basslines. While house displayed several characteristics similar to disco music, it was more electronic and minimalistic, and the structured music's focus around a repetitive rhythm was more important than the song itself. House music today, while keeping several of these core elements, notably the prominent kick drum on every beat, varies a lot in style and influence, ranging from the soulful and atmospheric deep house, to the more minimalistic microhouse. House music has also fused with several other genres creating fusion subgenres, such as Euro house and tech house.
She sells it all around the corner
She sells it all around the world
Well take me back to see the Queen
Along the Crimson Nile
Take me back to Amsterdam and watch me blow my mind
She sells Imaginary fortunes
She sells imaginary hearts
Well take me to the pharmacy
And roll me up a fat one
Take me back to Amsterdam and lay me out a line
There she goes
a vision and a rose
take me to the streets that call my name
There she lays
so beautiful insane
I'll ride that roller coaster once again
She said the world's too untogether
And she said we'll never make it through
But that is her prerogative
It sure as hell ain't mine
Take me back to Amsterdam
Take me back to Amsterdam