Disco was killed in the US by disgruntled unstylish impotent white men rotten ass filth the lot of them. Disco deserved better.
You know what. I wonder a lot why disco died and I have never read anything about it. I kinda just assumed times change I think but of course it’s more than that. Now I’m super curious.
Okay so this is something I actually looked into and a lot of rock djs were really disgruntled that disco had taken over the air waves and there was resentment which basically bubbled over. So there was this DJ by the name of Steve Dahl a shock jock who was vicicously anti disco and he sent out a call that he was doing a show at a Chicago Sox game. He asked everyone to bring disco records, young white men who were as unjustly disgusted with the magic of disco (something mainly Black/urban and a vehicle for lgbt expression). So he invited these men to come demolish disco records and they did in droves 50000 of them came and it was horrible they ran over records, stomped on them, burned them, ran over them just acted a violent ass. R&B acts fell into funk and post disco/synth but other acts went to Europe where disco now is still big but it really ruined disco’s time at the top. Basically racism and homophobia killed disco.
Somebody mentioned this in the Off The Wall documentary that Spike Lee did. White men were unhappy that everything wasn’t about them, and the colored and gays were getting shine.
That’s why the 80s generally looks so different from the 70s. White men had to rebound hard and came with (lame ass) rock music and bands, that were very straight and very white.
It makes perfect sense when you see these 80s rockers being exposed as racists (Gene Simmons, Guns N Roses dude), because that was when they came back in droves to take over music.
Yep and disco was always reported as something primarily Black/Latinx/lgbt news cycles were reporting is as taking over. Now we all know what happens when something fly is happening white folks get mad mainly white men especially if it effects their bottom line. That’s exactly what it was doing too disco was a hit and money making MACHINE outselling all other genres for a long period of time. This included rock mainly classic rock, hard rock, glam rock, the beginnings of hair metal, everything white dudes enjoyed, disco was coming for they necks. I’m never suprised when old rockers are exposed as racists cause they directly benefited from the destruction of disco something primarily Black/Latinx/lgbt. The really intense backlash started to come after Saturday night fever did exceptionally well once people saw how huge that was…there was a wave of resentment and then you had motherfuckers blowing up disco records in a baseball field. It’s really a shame though disco is one of the most sonically adventurous genres and it was only going up.
There is a very good episode of the podcast, Undone on this very topic
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