07/21/2026
Every so often, I come across comments like this about House music.
Not constantly. But regularly enough that it's become...a thing.
"Can we stop making house music about house music?"
Or, in response to one of my mixes:
"I get it, you are playing 'House' you don't have to tell me a thousand times during the house music."
And I genuinely find myself wondering...
Why?
Why spend time commenting on a DJ's mix that you don't even follow just to tell them you don't like an artistic choice?
And why is House in quotation marks?
There's an almost infinite amount of music online. If a mix isn't for you...it isn't for you. That's okay. Nobody's making you stay, much less leave a comment. Go find music you enjoy instead.
But I also wonder how many people making comments like these realize what they're actually asking for.
Maybe it's just a stylistic preference. Fair enough. But once it becomes a recurring complaint, I think it's worth asking what exactly people are asking house music to become instead.
House music didn't emerge in a vacuum. It was born in Black and q***r spaces, drawing on traditions of gospel, spoken word, preaching, testimony, affirmation, and call-and-response. DJs, vocalists, and producers have been talking about house, celebrating house, inviting people into house, and reminding us that "house is a feeling" for decades. Since Jack had a groove.
Those moments aren't distractions from house music.
They're part of the culture that shaped it.
So when I keep seeing variations of "can we stop talking about house in house music," it feels a little like asking house music to shed part of the Black cultural traditions that made it what it is.
You don't have to like that style. I don't expect everyone to.
But not every genre, every track, or every DJ has to be for everybody. And that's okay, "Alas Kick".
Also...i don't think you get it.