A Northeastern Brazilian term for a dance party, and also the name of the fast electronic forró music played there.
Piseiro carries two meanings that exist simultaneously in Brazilian culture. In its original sense—still alive across Brazil's Northeast—it's what you call a party where people gather to dance. Not a formal event, not a club night, but the kind of gathering where the whole point is moving your feet. The word itself comes from "pisar"—to stomp, to step—capturing how Northeasterners think about celebration: as something physical, participatory, something you do with your whole body.
Around 2019, a new style of electronic forró music exploded across Brazil and borrowed the name "piseiro" from these dance parties. This created a split: for people in the Northeast, "piseiro" still primarily means the gathering itself—"bora pro piseiro" (let's go to the party). For the rest of Brazil, especially after the music went viral nationally, "piseiro" became the genre first, the party second.
What makes this interesting is the layering: the same word now points to both the social event and the soundtrack. When someone says "piseiro," context tells you whether they mean the place where people stomp and dance, or the pulsing electronic beat that fills that space. The confusion isn't a bug—it's how regional culture gets absorbed and transformed when it hits the mainstream.