- All that cocaine didn’t hurt, either.
Hip hop sprung out of disco.
So did house music.
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I was too young for bars and disco, but I wish I’d realized sooner the good dancing would’ve done me. My issue was that disco took over the two radio stations available that weren’t country, and I resented not having music to listen to for a while.
That’s fantastic for nostalgia filled people who want to see a concert. Shall we compare those sales to disco influenced albums and tracks today? Taylor Swift’s “Lover” that just came out this year is heavily influenced by pop disco and electropop and I bet she is selling far more than Metallica is. Drake’s work is also heavily influenced by electronica in hip-hop and released a big album this year. And then there is Billie Eilish who may be the most Moroder influenced big artist this year.
I’d say those artists had far more influence on 2019 than old farts like Metallica or Rolling Stones or whoever old bands who are making money on nostalgia.
Are you suggesting that twenty-somethings don’t refer to music that they produce and dance to as “techno”? Because they do.
A shibboleth that you’re from Detroit?
Why did the WWII folks and middle aged people take on a lot of Disco/Hippie era aesthetics?
For example, my stepgrandfather wore poka dotted wide colored shirts with bell bottomed slacks as early as 72. He was 55. My grandpa has a Disco shirt on - collar huge and pointy - in 1975. His brother has a pink shirt with a massive color, gigantic white belt, and fuschia pants in 1973 and he was 53. My other grandpa who was always stuck in the 50s otherwise has sideburns going down to the end of his ear in a photo from 1980 I have.
My grandma wore frilly very 70s era blouses and whatnot in 1972 and she was 40 at this point.
It’s not about Donna Summer. It’s about arrangement. It’s an electronic piece of disco music, hence electronic dance music. Before that electronic music was either avangarde/academic music, or in pop-rock context psychedelic/space rock, and ambient music was in its infancy. There was no “dance in the discotheque” electronic music save for “Popcorn” and some Kraftwerk.
Metallica’s thrash metal was a huge influence on countless performers - but I’m afraid that house–>techno–>rave–>electronic dance music in general was (and still is) leaving much bigger impact on contemporary music. Besides, all the drum machines signature sounds - hi-hats, handclaps, cowbells - started in 80s on Japanese devices as poor imitations of disco sounds.