What’s Missing from Today’s Pop Music and Museum Galleries? Call It Boogie.

“This is me just lighting a bunch of matches in the bathroom.” In a video interview for the music website Pitchfork, Finneas O’Connell—producer for his pop-star sister, Billie Eilish—is playing a sound file on his computer, explaining how he constructed a beat for one of her songs. As he plays the finished track, “Watch,” he bobs his head to the backbeat. “It became the snare, essentially,” he explains, and if we listen carefully to the whap