Post by dentarthurdent on Jan 8, 2023 15:02:32 GMT
A video bubbled up from the murky depths of my Youtube feed, about the origins of Disco music. I was 4 during the initial event the narrator said was the starting point in ‘68, so I knew little beyond the usual story we already know. Urban clubs, hedonistic Bohemian youths, drugs, and gays. NYC cops raided an illegal gay nightclub in ‘68 and they resisted, starting a riot. Then NY legalized homosexuality, but the gays had to run their clubs in secret because of social backlash, and the music style spun by the DJs was early disco.
I don’t know at which point the alphabet agencies took over, but the pattern basically matches Woodstock. Rich men with distinctively shaped noses feed drugs to bored 20 year olds and lure them into therape vans discotheques, and because of the ‘70s malaise it’s better than working in the hardware store (nod to Saturday Night Fever).
When saturation occurred and that generation of youths was fully indoctrinated into the Men are Pigs/Split the Sexes myth, the counterrevolution was fabricated and they faked disco’s death with the Disco Sucks riot in 1979. The narrator tried to claim that the anti-disco sentiment was an anti-gay sentiment, but he’s wrong. We hated disco because it was monotonous, repetitive, boring, and a charicature of itself by 1979, and there was still a majority who was disgusted by the in-your-face sex, drugs, and rock & roll lifestyle. That it was mainstream rock fans who seemed to lead the counterrevolution may have simply been the convenient vessel in which to administer the death blow, if it was an artificial death. Rock 1.0 itself died at the same time.
Each succeeding genre of music has become more and more computerized and corporatized till it’s now just a fidget spinner, but pushing sex and drugs with ever more reckless abandon, and “musicians” being little different from pro wrestlers and politicians in the Big Kayfabe.
I don’t know at which point the alphabet agencies took over, but the pattern basically matches Woodstock. Rich men with distinctively shaped noses feed drugs to bored 20 year olds and lure them into the
When saturation occurred and that generation of youths was fully indoctrinated into the Men are Pigs/Split the Sexes myth, the counterrevolution was fabricated and they faked disco’s death with the Disco Sucks riot in 1979. The narrator tried to claim that the anti-disco sentiment was an anti-gay sentiment, but he’s wrong. We hated disco because it was monotonous, repetitive, boring, and a charicature of itself by 1979, and there was still a majority who was disgusted by the in-your-face sex, drugs, and rock & roll lifestyle. That it was mainstream rock fans who seemed to lead the counterrevolution may have simply been the convenient vessel in which to administer the death blow, if it was an artificial death. Rock 1.0 itself died at the same time.
Each succeeding genre of music has become more and more computerized and corporatized till it’s now just a fidget spinner, but pushing sex and drugs with ever more reckless abandon, and “musicians” being little different from pro wrestlers and politicians in the Big Kayfabe.