Or did they just dislike disco?
>>127973499Bigotry of what? Vapid idiots?This whole site regularly shits on normies. Pretty much the same thing.
>>127973499Both
>>127973499People just got sick of listening to disco. This happens to any music genre that's oversaturated. Same reason hair metal died.
>>127973499Disco just sucks dude, and people were fed up
It was a combination of rockists being entitled crybabies and mainstream disco being some of the worst music ever recorded(still not as bad as pop country, but close)
>>127973499As someone who likes both rock and disco, I'm conflicted
It was a reaction against astroturfing disco on radio stations where it wasn't desired by the market. People in Idaho, West Virginia and Texas didn't want to hear fucking Disco but it was all over the TV and radio because the labels wanted to push cheap crap. Similar to hip hop nowadays but people are even stupider now than they were in the 70s so they just kind of listen to it.
>>127973499>fueled by bigotryI mean, maybe up to some very small extent but it was definitely not about that and more about some people tired of disco thinking that it sucked that it was repetitive and had no musical valuethink of it something like when people were tired of Maroon 5 or when Justin Bieber started as a teen how everyone hated himyou could argue there was some bigotry in there, but it's like how people said videogames were sexist and racist in the 2010s, like maybe but not really
>>127974581I can give you Idaho and West Virginia but not Texas dudethe big cities in Texas which is where like half of Texans live have always had big presence of minorities and liberal views
>>127974601Sure, I was more trying to reflect the rural urban split. I'm sure disco was big in Houston.
If you look at the Billboard in 79 it was disco, disco, and more disco so you can see why it got super annoying in a hurry.
>>127973499The cool PoC Disco played in gay bars wasn't what people were sick of, it was shit like Disco Duck and that Disco song Kiss made.
"Ring My Bell" was the best example of classic awful corporate disco slop that was flooding the airwaves.
>>127973504>This whole site regularly shits on normies. Pretty much the same thing.Drunk retards at a baseball game going along with a popular DJ is not a counterculture action against the normies, retard zoomer. This site is a place for zoomers to repost YouTube (the biggest site in history) videos with 10 billion views. This thread came about because somebody made a YouTube video and zoomers got fed some more propaganda. Average kid including OP couldn’t tell you what year it happened. Couldn’t guess within five.
>>127974615>The cool PoC Disco played in gay bars wasn'tgay clubs played completely different stuff from what straight disco clubs played. they were bumping, like, Madleen Kane not Chic.
>>127974616>mfw heart of glass sounded just like thatBlondiebros...
>>127974618Which is my whole point?
>>127974617sporting events in the 70s were rowdy gatherings for young men to get drunk and start fights, not the tidy gentrified crowds of today. beer was cheap and many venues were in shitty neighborhoods.
>>127974616interesting how people were fed up of this soundi think it sounds neathttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp11DjaUc5A
>>127974616you just had to know Anita Ward sucked some A&R guy's dick to get that one worthless hit
When oldfags from pre-Beatles days started doing disco records, it was time to stop.
>>127974641it was objectively good and contrarians hate that. They thrieve on kikery, spin, publicity, astroturfing and worthless scribblershttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knsOFZHR9IcThe most memorable hits by both Pink Floyd and Blondie had a Disco base; not a Cohen-cidence.
>>127974635Exactly. There was a few other rowdy and crazy events that i read about happening back then when they tried to give out like 50 cent beers at sporting events
>>127975168disco evolved in europe into becoming house and club musicmeanwhile in the USA it evolved into hip hop
>>127973499Did that event actually influence pop culture? Cuz its still really weird to me how as soon as 1980 came disco pretty much died. Funk took over more in the black music world and new wave was the new thing
>>127975199the 1980 Billboard still had a lot of disco, it was only after the Reagan Administration started that it disappeared pretty much
>>127974615Those songs rule
>>127974642>you just had to know Anita Ward sucked some A&R guy's dick to get that one worthless hitRing my bell baby ding a ling a ling
>>127974635>sporting events in the 70s were rowdy gatherings for young men to get drunk and start fights, not the tidy gentrified crowds of today. beer was cheap and many venues were in shitty neighborhoods.There was a bigger riot at the 10 cent beer night
>>127974581It was specifically the Chicago DJ who ran the promotion whose station switched to disco. The whole disco sucks thing spread across the USA so much though all thru the 80s because of Chuds hating their parents or big sister's music. Check out what Arsenio Hall says right at the beginning of this '89 clip. https://youtu.be/dpf7PU4DuCM
>>127975197American Disco turned into Garage music (basically disco but with synths instead of violins), which went on to inspire European Garage/House music.Hip-Hop was developed primarily in spite of Disco's popularity and evolved from break dancing b-boy culture.
>>127974635yup. listening to bill burr talk about going to games at the old foxboro stadium and boston gardens make me mad i wasn't born a boomer.
>>127974635Footie matches in Europe were even worse back then. Actually you have to go to Latin America to find that oldschool rowdy sports culture.
>>127973499>4 years later>album full of disco tracks becomes all-time best-selling recordNothing ever happens.
>>127973499It's one of the few times Whites banded together to protest subversion - and one of the last times.The music intrinsically is fine. The agenda behind the disco movement is not. Many parallels today. For example, interracial love is great if it's what you want. Pushing it endlessly everywhere is propaganda.
>>127973499Disco was music invented by DJs at gay dance clubs. It sounds a lot like soul music to white ears so white people thought of soul and disco as the same thing. Disco destroyed soul music by association, which is quite sad.
>>127975293Guy's name was Steve Dahl, it took place at a Sox game when the White Sox were not good and is was the town's working class team. More or a class issue than a race issue.
>>127975197house music is from Chicago and techno is from Detroit. outside of those cities they never got big in the USA but they thrived in Europe and then they eventually sold it back to us similar to the British Invasion but it was never top 40 here like over there. except like Madonna. but what was playing in clubs stayed in the club here but in Europe real club music charted.
>>127977506There were plenty of whites making it though. It's all stupid. The first guy that always comes to mind for me is the prime music for idiots is KC and the Sunshine Band (although his band itself was partly black). Basically, I just see the worst kind of vapid party boomers, whatever color.
>>127975197funk evolved into hip-hop, although Kraftwerk was a huge favorite of Afrika Bambaataa who helped invent hip-hop and he eventually built Planet Rock out of a Trans Europe Express sample. but otherwise he and Kool Herc and everyone else was playing James Brown and Sly Stone and the like. if a disco tune was funky enough they'd play it but the concept of going to a club to see a DJ instead of bands was the real disco influence on hip hop. although that idea first happened with the teenage sock-hops of the 50s.
Disco was a NYC sound specifically and a lot of the country wasn't into it but the music industry was determined to ram it down everyone's ear canals anyway.
>>127977667Afrika is the greatest hip hop artist...and also a kid diddler. Just saying. All of this shit is extremely degenerate, at the end of the day.
>>127977506if you watch the movie Rockers, the lower class Jamaican guy kicks the DJ out of the booth of a disco club, locks himself in and starts playing rocksteady (proto-reggae).anyway, my point is the word disco is never said, the Jamaicans called it soul, the discotheque was a "soul club." so it wasn't just white Americans that conflated disco with soul.
The scale of importance for this event seems entirely exaggerated on the internet. Only in recent years has this become a point of discussion to stoke identity politics
>>127977820Disco was always kind of slammed in rock circles though. Even in punk, Blondie was shat on for turning heel and making disco tunes. And that was far less deserved. It's not like they only made Heart of Glass from then on. There's some X/Exene live show I recall where she was shitting on Blondie, now that I recall. Kind of an anti-Blondie. Forgot the album.
>>127978310as he said, disco was so overdone in 78-79 that it drove people insane. besides, how cool is something when 10 year olds and 70 year olds are into it?
>>127978310Reminds me of when James Chance was contracted by ZE to make a disco album (James White and the Blacks), and to prepare him for it, they sent him a stack of disco singles.James then proceeded to put them on a turntable and listened to each one for about 15 seconds before throwing them out of a window (or shattering them against a wall, i forget which)
>>127978310How do any of those words relate to what I said?
>>127978390I mean if you look more at the times they were in, it was a common opinion then too. Enough to seep into live shows. Not everything revolves around the internet.
>>127978435They didn't hate it because of race or gays is my point. The event was barely ever mentioned until identity politics exploded in the 2010sIt's touted as some sea change from revisionists when it was just an obscure event
>>127978456I do agree it wasn't about race or gays. And there is some revisionism where that one anti-disco event is made to be bigger than it was. I'm just saying there was also a sentiment of disgust that was still widespread. Just not as dramatic. I guess it's just human nature to try to capture history in some symbolic moment, when it's more complicated than that.
>>127978475>I do agree it wasn't about race or gays. And there is some revisionism where that one anti-disco event is made to be bigger than it was.Ok, then every other word you're saying is completely unrelated to what I was saying and irrelevant to a reply
>>127978491I'm not even challenging you in the first place. Just adding a little 2c and you're being a dumb cunt about it. The other anons right above added their own 2c and knew what I was talking about too. Go fuck yourself. lol
>>127978310Exene wasn't shitting on Debbie because of disco, she was talking about meeting her and Debbie was a bitch to her (allegedly.) but yeah the implication was that Blondie was a sellout group, so maybe that was because of HOG, but nothing was said explicitly. maybe just because they were generally popular.it's her introduction to one of the live tracks on the Beyond and Back comp. maybe "The Unheard Music?" or "Nausea"
>>127978577That must be it. I bought that long ago.
>>127978587she was so cute with all the makeup but really depends on the picture.
>>127973499it was just insanely drunk people who wanted to burn shit
