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The Disco phenomenon

Posted on 8/16/25 at 11:25 am
Posted by Bayou
Boudin, LA
Member since Feb 2005
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Posted on 8/16/25 at 11:25 am
What made it so big? Dance music in clubs? Bridge between whites and blacks? Clothes styles?
We see other genres belting out new music still today. To my knowledge there isn't recent disco music? Is there? Is it even a genre?

Posted by Saint Alfonzo
Member since Jan 2019
27894 posts
Posted on 8/16/25 at 11:30 am to
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What made it so big?

Cocaine.
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
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Posted on 8/16/25 at 12:02 pm to
Disco = Dance Music = the same shite that's been playing for 50+ years in discos, er I mean clubs
Posted by STigers
Gulf Coast
Member since Nov 2022
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Posted on 8/16/25 at 12:03 pm to

Posted by bleeng
The Woodlands
Member since Apr 2013
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Posted on 8/16/25 at 12:12 pm to
Posted by rebelrouser
Columbia, SC
Member since Feb 2013
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Posted by Got Blaze
Youngsville
Member since Dec 2013
9786 posts
Posted on 8/16/25 at 1:29 pm to
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Cocaine

I agree as coke was readily available and affordable during the Disco era. Compounded with promiscuity and lots of sex between heterosexual and homosexuals. 5 years later many of the club regulars were diagnosed with and died of AIDS
Posted by Ace Midnight
Between sanity and madness
Member since Dec 2006
94664 posts
Posted on 8/16/25 at 1:59 pm to
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What made it so big?


Short answer? Cocaine


Long answer? Coooocaiinnnneee
Posted by wareaglepete
Lumon Industries
Member since Dec 2012
17223 posts
Posted on 8/16/25 at 2:05 pm to
Not all dance music is the same. Disco differs from the boots and pants dance music that became popular after it.
Posted by Bjorn Cyborg
Member since Sep 2016
33813 posts
Posted on 8/16/25 at 2:53 pm to
Cheap, easy to produce brain rot for the masses.

They didn’t have to deal with squabbles among band mates and their associated problems.

Just get a front person or “band” and have everything done in the studio by producers and studio musicians.

Posted by Saint Alfonzo
Member since Jan 2019
27894 posts
Posted on 8/16/25 at 3:18 pm to
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To my knowledge there isn't recent disco music? Is there? Is it even a genre?

Gavin Turek might be the closest to a modern disco queen out today. She does stuff with Tuxedo, too.
Posted by Saint Alfonzo
Member since Jan 2019
27894 posts
Posted on 8/16/25 at 3:22 pm to
Posted by genuineLSUtiger
Nashville
Member since Sep 2005
76882 posts
Posted on 8/16/25 at 4:16 pm to
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5 years later many of the club regulars were diagnosed with and died of AIDS


After the CIA introduced it into the gay community.
Posted by MorbidTheClown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2015
73472 posts
Posted on 8/16/25 at 5:41 pm to
Never did cocaine. But, i was a regular at the disco. The girls were there so, the guys followed
Posted by Bayou
Boudin, LA
Member since Feb 2005
41285 posts
Posted on 8/16/25 at 8:58 pm to
Something about the rhythmic bass beat girls have to shake to. That alone was a sort of aphrodisiac to them.
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
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Posted by Jim Rockford
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Posted by oldtrucker
Marianna, Fl
Member since Apr 2013
3003 posts
Posted on 8/16/25 at 10:45 pm to
I still enjoy disco music. When I'm at the gym doing cardio, it is great up tempo music that has me at a higher pace. It works for me.
Posted by DeltaTigerDelta
Member since Jan 2017
13372 posts
Posted on 8/17/25 at 12:25 am to
Saturday Night Fever movie and soundtrack. Travolta got everyone wearing cowboy hats and two stepping in Urban Cowboy then he flipped ‘em to disco which sucked and is why I became a punk.
Posted by geauxbrown
Louisiana
Member since Oct 2006
24828 posts
Posted on 8/17/25 at 12:41 am to
If you take the raised high hat off the upbeat and stop playing straight 8’s on the kick, your disco song can suddenly become just another R&B classic
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