DISCO SUCKS
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baran_erik — 9 years ago(August 24, 2016 12:38 AM)
Yes, disco sucks. I was the age Tony was supposed to be when the movie came out. Had it not been for Welcome Back Kotter and the BeeGees it most likely wouldn't have been the hit it was. And that's a very large part of the backlash. That falsetto was just soooobad and John Travolta was a chick thing, guys weren't all that into going to his movies. Disco wasn't Rock 'n' Roll, what we were raised on, and we didn't like it.
The disco culture was just so repulsive, too. The scene where Tony is getting ready to go out is a perfect example of the narcissistic element drawn to the disco. The freaks, and the wannabes who emulated them, that populated the Studio 54 scene were a joke. Everything about it was just so lame. Why do you think it was here and gone so fast?
I didn't see SNF until just a few years ago, the trailers from back then were bad enough, but this is a really, really bad movie.
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westmore-55603 — 9 years ago(July 24, 2016 10:55 AM)
Back in the days Disco was the thing Boggie Down Baby
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ChrisCuda — 9 years ago(June 20, 2016 12:26 AM)
Well, I'm white and not gay.but I was in Jr High in 1979 and can attest that the disco sucks movement was a real thing. For whatever reason, disco's success did have a huge backlash. It was NOT coolyou could have been beaten up for liking The Bee Gee's or The Village People at my school. We were into The Cars, Cheap Trick, Tom Petty, PinkFloyd, Van Halen and AC/DC. Not one disco record got played at our school dances.
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renatom1 — 9 years ago(July 22, 2016 04:54 PM)
The problem with disco was the goofy culture that came with it: the clothes, the shoes, the hair, the dance moves, sex, drugs and the whole exclusive attitude some places like Studio 54 had towards people who didn't cut it. Had those things not been a part of it, disco might have lasted well into the 80s.
Nevertheless, disco never really died. It just evolved into what we would later call dance music, club music, house music, dubstep, etc. -
franzkabuki — 9 years ago(August 30, 2016 02:53 PM)
There's some good sh-t in practically any genre and I actually do get the appeal of The Bee Gees (even if, for instance, the lyrics for Staying Alive are wildly ludicrous - some sh-t somehow "uses his walk"? Someone is trying to figure out the effect New York Times has on "man" (whether the male sex is meant or the mankind in general, is left unclear)? And there is some further confusion about the family relations concerning the mothers and brothers, except that everyone is "staying alive" yet it is never explained 'how' they're staying alive and why does it take such an effort or indeed why is it even worth mentioning). BUT. Yes, by and large, disco music is not exactly amongst the more interesting or worthwhile things man has invented.
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Negasonic_WoodChipper_Warhead — 9 years ago(December 02, 2016 05:38 AM)
This movie is not mainly about disco, it's just a setting for the characters.
Disco was fun, people were dancing and having fun, the 70's was probably more fun for most people because of it. You didn't have to like disco to go to a disco to be social and interact with people, but disco made that widely popular. Some of you reading this now probably owe your very existence to disco.
A lot of hate came from people who preferred rock, they were scared rock would vanish and be replaced by disco. But they didn't realize it would wear itself out on its own, just like rock has today. There are no real rock songs tearing up the charts now.
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ranc1 — 1 year ago(August 21, 2024 09:07 PM)
It is shocking how with sexual revolution 10 years prior to this movie, sex was liberated - EXCEPT gay sex. This stayed taboo until todays.
And what we see in 1979 - is that homosexuality can be used as a weapon to control insecure heterosexuals who carry mask of masculinity -
and this mask is making them very susceptible to hate and control essentially.
It is like -
someone macho who appears super confident and antagonistic and military and aggressive - that you might never think you can convince this guy to do something -
you simply tell him that article of clothing is gay and you can control his wardrobe.
Or food that he eats or places that he goes to.
And this is what happened with 1979,
homosexuality was used as a weapon to destroy disco. Disco was considered non-masculine and hence socially non acceptable because some loud person proclaimed it as such at a football match.