A single sample can inject unscripted nostalgia into dance music.

Evidence

Sometimes, a free-floating sadness seeps into the grain of the music itself. On their blog No Good Advice, the blogger J describes the use of a sample from Kaoma’s 1989 track ‘Lambada’ on Jennifer Lopez’s 2011 hit ‘On The Floor’: ‘The snatch of ‘Lambada’ functions as a buried-memory trigger, a sort of party hauntology that lends the song a slight edge of wistful, nostalgic sadness.’ There is no reference to sadness in the official text of the track, which is a simple exhortation to dance. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 464

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces ‘party hauntology’ as a term for sample-triggered nostalgia in club-pop.
• XREF: connects to: Sample-triggered sorrow can seep into club pop from outside its lyrics — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 464

Broader Connections

• Sample-triggered sorrow can seep into club pop from outside its lyrics #expands (0.95) — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 464