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Yes their were white people in the space. If you enjoy the genre you’re not listening to a lot of white artists. Any genre black people created white people then bit off it and continue you to do so. There’s a fair critique to be made about cultural appropriation in disco, but that doesn’t define it as a genre. Especially considering disco was the birthplace of hip hop.
It’s music that makes you dance. So the fact it appealed to discotheques, places where people could dance is the whole point. You can call any genre watered down from jazz. And because it’s easy to dance to and makes you feel good it’s easy to commercialize. Not the most surprising thing. That also doesn’t take away it’s counterculture voice.
If instead of “watered down” you framed it as “blends” you start to realize the genius simplicity of the art form. The aesthetic alone is one of the coolest to date. Using a lot 60s psychedelia with more flat designs of the 70s. Bright colors, nature, peace and love. Dance, sing, and enjoy life.
Disco entertainment centers make it possible for mellow, laid-back, boring kinds of people to meet each other and reproduce.
Just a trash take on a whole genre of music that made people less boring and feel more free to be themselves.
BLM and disco could not be further from the same thing lol, you made that comparison, not me
Not a comparison. Similar energy of saying because white people are in the space it’s not lead by black people.
Yeah, the roots of disco are all actually firmly planted and rich organic musical traditions, but disco itself is trash... sorry
I didn't say that disco sucked because of white people, I said that disco was the way that comfortable normie Yuppie white people approached Black musical & popular culture... it's not even a "blend", it's just uninspired tripe
There were always gay clubs & dance halls & roller rinks that played these funk tracks & encouraged a form of DJing that was always evolving, but that's not really what disco became in the Saturday Night Fever craze. That's why Black artists had to reclaim and revive their own more organic forms of expression with hip hop & breakbeat and other sorts of musical traditions outside of mayo Yuppie leisure suits & Studio 54 spotlight. ABBA was okay, I didn't say the music was bad because it's somewhat dance-able, I said it was bad because it's not making funk music any better, it's just making rock music worse.
You know that Studio 54 was the elitist & exclusive representation of 1970s Disco debauchery and decadence and class disparity, right? You seem to like the aesthetic, but it sounds more like you just want to be accepted in the cultural milieu
Hahaha yeah that’s it. I want to be accepted by a cultural milieu from a genre that most people don’t look back on fondly.
Gatekeeping music is highly irritating. I don’t really care if you don’t like it. Just don’t claim it’s because you have some superior understanding of the music or culture. Yuppies liked it therefor I can’t. Imagine approaching your life like that. Hella weird.
You sound like the white moms who complain about their kids listening to hip hop because they’re talking about violence. Except it’s rich white people also listened to disco so now the artist who made the music are bad.
When we’re talking about disco in 2020 it has so many branches like most genres of music. Contemporarily you would be cutting out future funk, French house. Disco House and most vaporwave genres (including labourwave). Disco continues to influence all of them and in quite a significant way.
The only reason it died is because of racism. Burning the disco records (which were actually any record from a black artist) the constant barrage of the Disco Sucks campaigns, calling into radio stations to complain about disco music was lead by young white men to continued the long American tradition of finding any way to hate black people.
that's not true. certain genres of music are spontaneous & truly syncretic & dynamic and influential whereas disco just has John Travolta lol... I am not saying that electronic music would be better without going through an embarrassing disco stage, but it should come as a surprise to no one that DJs from Chicago and Detroit and NY & UK who were fed up with the way disco music was perverted, then evolved house, which isn't disco... because the pop element is mostly removed and independent innovative artists emerged
yes, it does make it historically accurate. it's the same sort of critique people give of KPOP...
whether or not you identify with or love the aesthetic or listen to it, could KPOP exist without the brutal and overtly hypercapitalistic formula and pressures of the big labels? doubtful
Young white cis men killed disco and did it large part because of racism and homophobia. That’s historically accurate. Disco becoming more commercial the more popular it was is the life cycle of all genres.
Disco did not start off as a hypercapitalistic genre nor did it ever become one. That’s historically inaccurate. If it was such a cash machine it would’ve had a longer run.
Disco was only accessible because of the mass commercial popularization in the suburbs through associated movies and dance crazes etc. Van McCoy's probably great, but like "The Hustle" is not really the best shit imo you know?
Yes their were white people in the space. If you enjoy the genre you’re not listening to a lot of white artists. Any genre black people created white people then bit off it and continue you to do so. There’s a fair critique to be made about cultural appropriation in disco, but that doesn’t define it as a genre. Especially considering disco was the birthplace of hip hop.
It’s music that makes you dance. So the fact it appealed to discotheques, places where people could dance is the whole point. You can call any genre watered down from jazz. And because it’s easy to dance to and makes you feel good it’s easy to commercialize. Not the most surprising thing. That also doesn’t take away it’s counterculture voice.
If instead of “watered down” you framed it as “blends” you start to realize the genius simplicity of the art form. The aesthetic alone is one of the coolest to date. Using a lot 60s psychedelia with more flat designs of the 70s. Bright colors, nature, peace and love. Dance, sing, and enjoy life.
Just a trash take on a whole genre of music that made people less boring and feel more free to be themselves.
Not a comparison. Similar energy of saying because white people are in the space it’s not lead by black people.
Yeah, the roots of disco are all actually firmly planted and rich organic musical traditions, but disco itself is trash... sorry
I didn't say that disco sucked because of white people, I said that disco was the way that comfortable normie Yuppie white people approached Black musical & popular culture... it's not even a "blend", it's just uninspired tripe
There were always gay clubs & dance halls & roller rinks that played these funk tracks & encouraged a form of DJing that was always evolving, but that's not really what disco became in the Saturday Night Fever craze. That's why Black artists had to reclaim and revive their own more organic forms of expression with hip hop & breakbeat and other sorts of musical traditions outside of mayo Yuppie leisure suits & Studio 54 spotlight. ABBA was okay, I didn't say the music was bad because it's somewhat dance-able, I said it was bad because it's not making funk music any better, it's just making rock music worse.
You know that Studio 54 was the elitist & exclusive representation of 1970s Disco debauchery and decadence and class disparity, right? You seem to like the aesthetic, but it sounds more like you just want to be accepted in the cultural milieu
Hahaha yeah that’s it. I want to be accepted by a cultural milieu from a genre that most people don’t look back on fondly.
Gatekeeping music is highly irritating. I don’t really care if you don’t like it. Just don’t claim it’s because you have some superior understanding of the music or culture. Yuppies liked it therefor I can’t. Imagine approaching your life like that. Hella weird.
You sound like the white moms who complain about their kids listening to hip hop because they’re talking about violence. Except it’s rich white people also listened to disco so now the artist who made the music are bad.
When we’re talking about disco in 2020 it has so many branches like most genres of music. Contemporarily you would be cutting out future funk, French house. Disco House and most vaporwave genres (including labourwave). Disco continues to influence all of them and in quite a significant way.
The only reason it died is because of racism. Burning the disco records (which were actually any record from a black artist) the constant barrage of the Disco Sucks campaigns, calling into radio stations to complain about disco music was lead by young white men to continued the long American tradition of finding any way to hate black people.
no, disco died because it was always just a gimmick
You could say that about every single genre. Doesn’t make it historically accurate.
that's not true. certain genres of music are spontaneous & truly syncretic & dynamic and influential whereas disco just has John Travolta lol... I am not saying that electronic music would be better without going through an embarrassing disco stage, but it should come as a surprise to no one that DJs from Chicago and Detroit and NY & UK who were fed up with the way disco music was perverted, then evolved house, which isn't disco... because the pop element is mostly removed and independent innovative artists emerged
Hahahaha you don’t know anything about disco but what you have been spoon fed.
“Hip hop sucks. All it offers is Lil John.”That’s you
Also you. At least stick with one coherent understanding of the genre.
Lil Jon is amazing, John Travolta kinda sucks lol
Part of the genre is commercialized therefore the whole thing is commercialized.
yes, it does make it historically accurate. it's the same sort of critique people give of KPOP...
whether or not you identify with or love the aesthetic or listen to it, could KPOP exist without the brutal and overtly hypercapitalistic formula and pressures of the big labels? doubtful
Young white cis men killed disco and did it large part because of racism and homophobia. That’s historically accurate. Disco becoming more commercial the more popular it was is the life cycle of all genres.
Disco did not start off as a hypercapitalistic genre nor did it ever become one. That’s historically inaccurate. If it was such a cash machine it would’ve had a longer run.
Disco was only accessible because of the mass commercial popularization in the suburbs through associated movies and dance crazes etc. Van McCoy's probably great, but like "The Hustle" is not really the best shit imo you know?
How it got into white people’s space does not define the genre. Hope we don’t think slim shady represents all of hip hop.