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Are there two Americas, too many Americas, not enough? The plaint changes with the day. Identity is a serpentine target on the dance floor\u2014a place where, in its most romantic evocation, how you catch a groove and to what says something about who you like to fuck and how. And if you haven\u2019t danced lately (and, no, weddings don\u2019t count) then oof<\/em>.<\/p>\n Or maybe you\u2019re straight\u2014the kind of straight person who saw the club and its music as a means to the end we call marriage, coupledom. Some weeks ago, three married people and the pop singer Halsey, engaged since 2024, filmed themselves, for a podcast, having a depressing conversation about partying, during which the two men in the room\u2014producer Benny Blanco<\/a> and rapper Lil Dicky<\/a>\u2014confessed that their bygone participation in the activity was never in the interest of fun but in that of finding someone who would end their search for a partner to settle down with.<\/p>\n Last year, Blanco\u2014credited with college-bar bangers such as 3OH!3\u2019s \u201cWant,\u201d Katy Perry\u2019s \u201cTeenage Dream,\u201d Kesha\u2019s \u201cAnimal\u201d-era catalogue, those Gym Class Heroes singles, \u201cNo Sleep\u201d by Wiz Khalifa\u2014married the artist and actress Selena Gomez. Blanco said that she asked him if he missed \u201cthe party life.\u201d As relayed to the pod, Blanco answered in the negative. \u201cThe point of the party is to find you,\u201d he said he told her. \u201cThe party\u2019s over. I won the party.\u201d<\/p>\n Not all straights agree, but I know my people. I live in the Midwest, a region that spawns homebodies aplenty. It\u2019s that age-old aging-out adage: going out is for the immature and single, twinned conditions that can be escaped, if things go according to plan, before one\u2019s twenties are out. Bemused pity is directed at those whose path deviates.<\/p>\n Seasonally, the internet bats around derision for party people of a certain age. \u201cThis is not your brat summer, you are 32, start a stretching routine,\u201d the journalist Matthew Zeitlin posted on X a few years ago. It seems almost beyond remark that the author of said summer, Charli XCX, a self-described \u201c365 party girl,\u201d was turning thirty-two that August. On the same internet, a contingent crows about going \u201cgranny mode.\u201d One America breaks off here. The comedian Jaboukie Young-White put it thusly in a recent interview he gave to the performer Ziwe<\/a>: \u201cI see straight discourse of people being, like, \u2018Imagine being thirty-two in the club.\u2019 And I\u2019m, like, \u2018Baby, we\u2019re at the after afters.\u2019\u00a0\u201d<\/p>\n Which explains those hits whose seeming ubiquity is only seeming\u2014the solid, danceable pop music that barely penetrates the eardrums of those self-professed thirtysomething old folks. \u201cPadam Padam,\u201d from 2023, is one such hit, performed by Kylie Minogue, an Australian artist with lots of them. I feel a pang when discussion of an artist is led by their being slept on, but it must be said that Minogue, one of the most fabulous showgirls alive, beloved by the world at record-breaking levels, has never entirely caught on among Americans. (\u201cIs it the relentlessly upbeat disco aesthetic that throws us off?\u201d Sasha Frere-Jones asked New Yorker<\/em> readers<\/a> in 2009. \u201cIs it the costume changes?\u201d)<\/p>\n But not all Americans. There are grand pockets of this nation where merely knowing of Minogue is not enough, where the 2001 album \u201cFever,\u201d whose nu-disco perfections did stick in the States, is just the shallow end. Minogue\u2019s music \u201chas become a hallmark of the gay club, even in its mass dilution in the 21st century as these spaces (justifiably) opened up to others,\u201d the journalist Joan Summers wrote in Jezebel<\/em><\/a>, in 2020. \u201cMinogue understands that she rules over these club floors, and takes care in her position as dance commander to a legion of sweaty homosexuals.\u201d Three summers ago, in 2023, the anthem on offer was \u201cPadam Padam.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.newyorker.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Are there two Americas, too many Americas, not enough? The plaint changes with the day. 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