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Disco comeback
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Eh, you will survive.
Are you sure about that?
Well, less so now after seeing that!
Wow I hadn't seen that since pre-YouTube.
Now that everyone who was old enough to give a shit in 1981 is pushing 60, can we all agree that, like, disco was pretty good actually?
Some genuine bangers in there. Not at all deserving of the backlash it got.
That's the thing, 45 years later you only ever hear the bangers, not the other 99.9%.
Is there a term for that? It's not survivorship bias exactly, although I guess you could stretch the definition.
Sturgeon's Law
Derived from a sci-fi writer who was told sci-fi wasn't respected as "real literature" because "90% of sci-fi was shit", to which he supposedly responded:
"Well, 90% of everything is shit"
It is survivor bias. The good disco is like the planes that got hit in the wings. It gives a skewed picture of the whole
Some people say they love disco. But I have to ask: what is love?
Baby don't hurt me
don't hurt me
things are gonna burn, baby, burn. disco inferno.
Did the dj saved your life?
It wasn't necessary, he was staying alive
A lot of disco was great. Listen to some Chic!
Ok everyone im convinced. Give me your best disco Playlist or songs and I'll vibe to it this evening
I've never been sure what the exact distinction is between disco and funk, nor which side it falls on, but I love Walter Murphy's "A Fifth of Beethoven".
Everyone that's in the dark should look up Italo-Disco Playlist and thank me later.
nudisco was a thing for a little while and it's not so bad.
Never heard of it, which must be part of why my brain inserted an L so I read "nuldisco" at first. Was curious what that'd sound like...
I was in MacArthur Park, talking to some Bad Girls, 'cause I'm a Wanderer, and I heard it On The Radio that disco was coming back. Once Upon A Time I heard that disco was Hot Stuff. I guess it has not had it's Last Dance.
Now I Feel Love, thank you.
Shhhh... just a little secret between us ... but most of today's shit-ton of house music is VERY VERY, uh, discoish
Wait, that song is disco?!?!
Might be the disco version
Full list of disco songs winning The Grammy Award For Best Disco Recording:
1980 - I will survive.
The award only existed that year.
huh, TIL. thanks, that's interesting
haaardcooree! to the max!
Seems a bit worse than the cosmic horrors I'm getting every night
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