>tfw 'disco demolition night' was a real thing
Wtf? Why? I think this kind of backlash only happened on the internet.
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>tfw 'disco demolition night' was a real thing
Wtf? Why? I think this kind of backlash only happened on the internet.
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Disco was everywhere though, 60s/70s rock guys were doing disco, every commercial had a disco beat, tv shows like CHiPs changed the theme song to a disco remix, and with rock stations changing their formats to disco it’s understandable why there was such a huge backlash
Americans have a long and vibrant history of chimping out violently at anything ever remotely associated with Black people
Why is destroying vinyls and rioting at music more unbelievable than thousands strong crowds trying to lynch someone for moving into a "wrong" neighbourhood?
Disco wasn't black music. It was white approperation of Motown. The backlash over Disco was that it was creatively hollow and being pushed against prevailing tastes by radio and record labels. People wanted Rock and Motown.
Huh. It'd be like dubstep or something. Remember that? Man, that shit got old fast.
Italo-Disco which was an 80s thing was probably just as creatively hollow but I wonder if it ever had a similar backlash, was pushed as hard, or what. You know it's interesting that a lot of this pseudo-retro-synthwave stuff is similar to Italo-Disco, not New Wave.
>was pushed as hard, or what
(in Europe, Japan, etc.)
it’s fair to say that this was partly a backlash to (really fear of) the rise of black and gay culture, though it’s easy to overstate or politicize what was largely a minor unspoken subtext
its not fear, its genuinely righteous anger
where does this weird meme come from of disco being primarily gay/black when in reality it was pretty much the most Italian thing ever?
it was made by gay black italians
>Vito, what the frick are you doin' here?
It's disco night! You're breakin' my balls!
>ey im bottomin' 'ere
>disco being primarily gay/black
Probably conflating it with house music which was actually made by gay black djs in Chicago inspired by their moms disco records
Plenty of blacks disliked it too since they saw it as a soulless commercialization of funk/soul
>gay/black
>most Italian thing ever
Yes.
not really, rock was the big rival and it was black too, feels more like lib cultural commentators not able to grasp that something might actually not be about idpol.
>Marsh was one who, at the time, deemed the event an expression of bigotry, writing in a year-end 1979 feature that "white males, eighteen to thirty-four are the most likely to see disco as the product of homosexuals, blacks, and Latins, and therefore they're the most likely to respond to appeals to wipe out such threats to their security. It goes almost without saying that such appeals are racist and sexist, but broadcasting has never been an especially civil-libertarian medium."
>Nile Rodgers, producer and guitarist for the disco-era band Chic, likened the event to Nazi book burning.
The villains of any movement forever see themselves as the victim.
Disco was good when it was actually made by blacks, white squares like bee gees and kc and the sunshine band ran it into the ground
Sister Sledge. Black female disco was also popular with gays and is still used in remixes for the gay circuit party scene. There's like some longstanding cultural alliance between gay men and black women.
Patti LaBelle is another one. "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi, ce soir?" It kinda mutated into this Nona Hendryx stuff which is very Manhattan-in-the-1980s
yet you ape out when some gypsy cleans out your house. curious.
>vinyls
Zoomer detected. They're called records
>thousands strong crowds trying to lynch someone for moving into a "wrong" neighbourhood?
yeah that really happened
>The Cicero race riot of 1951 occurred July 11–12, when a mob of 4,000 whites attacked an apartment building that housed a single black family in a neighborhood in Cicero, Illinois.
Yeah, it did
and why'd they do it?
For the lulz of course
Because they were butthurt a black family rented an apartment in hecking whiterino neighbourhood?
Im waiting for the cope justification, don't disappoint me
I am going to assume rape and or crime from one of the family members without even looking the incident up.
yeah, you assumed wrong. Didja know the cops threatened them when they first tried to move in? Told them that if they came, they'd get a bullet in their heads. Americans are literal animals.
God I wish Europe did this with Africans.
>invade land
>enslave locals and use them as slaves for hundreds of years
>wtf why are there so many africans in my land
Pests
Seeing the state of Chicago now. Yeah they had the right idea.
Go back, 2016gay
straight white meat-eating man moment
Even rock artists were making disco
>Rolling Stone critic Dave Marsh described Disco Demolition Night as "your most paranoid fantasy about where the ethnic cleansing of the rock radio could ultimately lead". Marsh was one who, at the time, deemed the event an expression of bigotry, writing in a year-end 1979 feature that "white males, eighteen to thirty-four are the most likely to see disco as the product of homosexuals, blacks, and Latins, and therefore they're the most likely to respond to appeals to wipe out such threats to their security. It goes almost without saying that such appeals are racist and sexist, but broadcasting has never been an especially civil-libertarian medium."
Peak chud moment
Good for them
Now that I don't like Disco anymore
The film "Detroit Rock City" accurately portrays these people. That particular incident however attracted people who were not necessarily against disco per se, but just looking to start shit.
Disco was fricking shit. How are people over complicating this. The music of the late '70s/early '80s, especially punk, was a reaction against how bad it sucked. Hell, a lot of early punk, like X and the Ramones, and some of David Lee Roth era Van Halen were deliberately trying to bring back per-disco garage and rockabilly sounds.
Disco was epic, 70s people just weren't ready for it.
Disco only became cool when ghetto kids from the Bronx cut it up and wove it back together for parties in abandoned buildings using stolen power from streetlights
You're looking at it in hindsight, which is to say, ignoring the shitty and overproduced crap in favor of the genuine hits.
That said, a lot of it was just people upset that their "thing" wasn't it anymore.
>You're looking at it in hindsight, which is to say, ignoring the shitty and overproduced crap in favor of the genuine hits.
So the same exact reason why every other genre is appreciated? Are we really gonna pretend people didn't talk mad shit about rock when it first cropped up?
That's not a bad point actually.
Back then, liberal leftist snobs liked rock because they thought it was "real" and working class, their idea of typical rock was something like Bruce Springsteen. They hated disco because they saw it as some kind of hedonistic decadent degenerate thing.
I think the modern left would have very different opinions, because they like degeneracy and don't like working class men.
By left I don't mean communists, I just mean the average college educated American that votes for the left. A typical music critic who back then had those opinions is Robert Christgau. The fetishes of leftists back then was being real or sincere (or pretending to be so) something like Dylan. Now it would be something like being diverse in sexuality and race.
Similarly in the 90s leftists loved irony and offending and defending the right to offend, now they love getting offended and canceling. Progressives by nature change their beliefs every decade.
The Ramones suck worse than disco
It was less of a blacklash and more White Sox fans being trash
Lul