>tfw 'disco demolition night' was a real thing

>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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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    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

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    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?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      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.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        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.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >was pushed as hard, or what
          (in Europe, Japan, etc.)

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        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

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          its not fear, its genuinely righteous anger

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          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?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            it was made by gay black italians

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >Vito, what the frick are you doin' here?
            It's disco night! You're breakin' my balls!

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >ey im bottomin' 'ere

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >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

            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.

            Plenty of blacks disliked it too since they saw it as a soulless commercialization of funk/soul

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >gay/black
            >most Italian thing ever
            Yes.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          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.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >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.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          The villains of any movement forever see themselves as the victim.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          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

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            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

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      yet you ape out when some gypsy cleans out your house. curious.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >vinyls
      Zoomer detected. They're called records

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >thousands strong crowds trying to lynch someone for moving into a "wrong" neighbourhood?
      yeah that really happened

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >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

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          and why'd they do it?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            For the lulz of course

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Because they were butthurt a black family rented an apartment in hecking whiterino neighbourhood?
            Im waiting for the cope justification, don't disappoint me

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I am going to assume rape and or crime from one of the family members without even looking the incident up.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous
          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            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.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            God I wish Europe did this with Africans.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >invade land
            >enslave locals and use them as slaves for hundreds of years
            >wtf why are there so many africans in my land

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Pests

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Seeing the state of Chicago now. Yeah they had the right idea.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Go back, 2016gay

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    straight white meat-eating man moment

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Even rock artists were making disco

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >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

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Good for them

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Now that I don't like Disco anymore

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    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.

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    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.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Disco was epic, 70s people just weren't ready for it.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        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

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        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.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >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?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            That's not a bad point actually.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      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.

      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.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The Ramones suck worse than disco

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It was less of a blacklash and more White Sox fans being trash

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Lul

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