Why is disco evil?

[Deja Q]

The music is uplifting - yup, that's evil.

The music features violins - surely a sign of Satan's influence.

The music lacks a social message - yup, it always has to have a message or else it is evil. This means 50s pop music must be evil too.

Okay, what am I missing? Why is disco evil? :shrug:

[flamingyouth]

1. It's like that Kids int the Hall sketch about jazz

"What is it about jazz you don't like?"

"Um, the SOUND?"

That's like me with disco. I can't really explain it any more than that.

[Deja Q]

4. LOL. Point taken.

I'm the same way with country music... except country music induces suicide, amongst other things... :-)

[johnnie]

2. I hated disco in the 70's

I have to admit though...listening to it now, some of that shit was pretty cool.

[madrchsod]

3. i don`t know

i like some disco tunes..i mean who couldn`t like donna getting off and thelma houston,why would anyone leave her that way?

[nini]

5. because some people can't dance,,

therefore didn't fit in so they had to bash it? :shrug:



suckers.. never got to do the hustle :-)

[NuttyFluffers]

6. It's the association with the Gay Community...

That and anyhting that becomes so popular so fast immediately spawns counter-movements that hate it. But the Big thing is the gay association, in my opinion.

But I love me some Sylvester...

[Deja Q]

11. Ah!

Point taken.

I recall reading that the Village People were loved by all... until the news leaked out that they were homos. Then all the secret meanings behind their moves were realized and the backlash began.

This may have helped lead society to neo-con control, with Reagan being the father of it. It's sad, really...

I always thought the Village People had been out and accepted at the time. Oops.

[troublemaker]

7. Anti-Disco was an odd synergism

Disco was particularly despised by both rednecks and people with taste... a perfect storm of approbation.

The former because Disco seemed black and gay and urban and generally feminine.

The later because Disco was plastic and shallow and popular.

In reality disco was the last act of a dying culture... the last global fashion. (Today's information technologies probably make a global fashion impossible. Rather than bringing people together our many entertainment and communication options instead facilitate escalating cultural segmentation.)

[NightTrain]

8. There's not a damned thing wrong with disco!

OK, that's not entirely true. Far too much disco was lousy, but when the music was good, it was damned good!

[Zorra]

9. The disco era

began during an era of social revolution. People had a general rise in consciousness since the beginning of the Vietnam War and the Watts riots, and rock and roll lyrics from 1964 to 1977 expressed many new ideas that reached a lot of people, and often expanded their way of thinking. After Vietnam, the world seemed, at last, to be changing for the better.

Disco then came about, with it's simple rhythms and arrangements, meaningless lyrics, and polyester culture, Reagan was elected President, and the hopes and dreams of a better world died for a generation of people that fought so hard for social progress. And now, we have Bu$h and the neocons, an outgrowth of the Reagan/disco era.

Many people think to this day that disco was a planned RW media maneuver to help kill the liberal social revolution brought about by Vietnam and the 60's by "sanitizing" popular music.

Maybe this is one reason why some people consider disco evil.

[Deja Q]

10. It can also be said that

the corporate element dished out all the commie propaganda music of the late 60s/early 70s because it was profitable...

The people probably got tired of constant social messages and wanted something light and entertaining and to relax for a moment. The corporate element took advantage of that, and as a result society of the mid-late 70s became flooded with simplistic mindless rubbish that helped foster the "mentality" that allowed Reagan to win. (Should "Grease" still be considered a great movie given the circumstances? Simplistic, nostalgic, late 70s, just the right time...) After all, the decade that started with "All in the Family" ended with "Three's Company". The former reviled by overrated Lucille Ball, the latter adored by her.

Society needs a mix of both mindful and mindless. Gotta have a life too along with being informed of what's going on.

We had social commentary in pop. But being omnipresent wore out its presence. Did we kill ourselves with overkill in the 1970s?

Today we have essentially only mindless boring plastic pap that makes disco seem prophetic by comparison, which gets more generic and "blah" every day. The real creativity stems from the 'alternative' scenes. But even those are generally derivative as well.

The underlying factor for all in our society happens to be corporations. Disco is not evil. What is controlling society's entertainment and media is. It's as simple as that.

[Droopy]

12. There's nothing evil about disco, it just sucks!

Hell, a little evil in disco music would be an improvement.

[ironflange]

13. Disco wasn't evil

And it was real fun to live through it.

[2Design]

14. I like Disco a lot....it was great to dance to....and fun

[LoZoccolo]

15. Too many people couldn't get into clubs...

...and took it out on the music?

:shrug: