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To: ConservativeStatement

My opposition to disco then as it is now is not a backlash against black or gay music performers, it is backlash against a vapid superficial cocaine fueled pop music field. The music plain sucks and the egoists who loved the era tell you of the wild drug fueled exclusive swinger parties at Studio 54. It wasn’t about the music, it was about living to excess.

The same is true of today’s hip-hop “stars” with their bogus “street cred” bios and massive ego driven music about anyone giving a cr@p when they walk in “da club”.

James Brown was far cooler than disco and you could dance to it. Same is true of gay-hispanic ? Mark and his brothers in the Mysterians.


47 posted on 05/17/2012 1:31:46 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Barack Obama has cut and run from what he called "the right war".)
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To: a fool in paradise

Disagree.

Not everyone was at Studio54. There were disco clubs everywhere, 3000 mi away. Most of them were not quite like the epitome. Not much different from any average “club” today.

As if all the other “rock” music wasn’t filled with “excess”, especially in drugs and alcohol.

I also have no idea how anyone can make anything but a superficial comparison between hip-hop/rap and disco. Night and day.


50 posted on 05/17/2012 1:38:29 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: a fool in paradise

“it is backlash against a vapid superficial cocaine fueled pop music field”

Superficial, yes, but so’s the rest of rock and roll, almost exclusively. I can discern gradations in quality of musicianship and poetry, but not so as to make it much different than comparing bologna to ham lunchables. It’s all the same crap, mostly. But what fun crap, sometimes.


64 posted on 05/17/2012 2:05:11 PM PDT by Tublecane
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