Thread 127397026

Why did boomer rockists get so touchy when they weren't the center of attention?

The most popular rock band that isn't past their prime and doesn't suck is Viagra Boys and theyre barely popular enough for me to consider them successful. While 30 years ago a band as inconsequential as the presidents of the United States of America could sell 3 million records. Only a crazy person would be OK with their favorite genre being kicked to the curb that hard
>the mainstream doesn't matter
>its not about the money
The success of the mainstream is directly tied to the health of the underground

>>127397056
thanks, ChatGPT

>>127397026 (OP)
imagine if every time you fired up spotify, 4 out of every 5 songs you were allowed to listen to were the most braindead copy-paste mumble rap slop you can imagine. that's what the disco environment was like for a couple years, inescapable and 98% of it was monotonous, repetitive and hollow landfill garbage

>>127397062
I wrote all that myself retard

>>127397064
at least they revolted against the slop. zoomers would never do that.

>>127397026 (OP)
disco sucks and now that the pop industry is running out of ideas they're just ripping off b-side disco, house, and motown tunes and replacing the soul and emotion with cheap plastic whores. the boomer rockists were justified in their rage against slop, I actually admire their low tolerance for poor quality despite them deciding in the 80s and 90s to acquire as much cheap plastic Chinese shit as they can

>>127397056
PUSA rules but they were also pre-internet piracy streaming era.

>>127397115
>and now that the pop industry is running out of ideas
nah they just need to shitcan Jack Antonoff and other aging hacks who peaked 10-20 years ago. clearly those guys have nothing left in the tank in terms of production or songwriting ideas, we've heard it all before.

>>127397135
^This. Why did the industry get so stagnant and have the same 20 producers and songwriters for this long?

>>127397026 (OP)
You misunderstand.
The backlash against disco had nothing to do with rock.

it was about the mechanized-sounding drumbeat that propelled low-effort disco songs that flooded the airwaves, after disco became huge.
It sounded inhuman.
It sounded low effort.
People felt they were being pandered to, in the worst way.

They wanted and were used to high-effort music, high-skill music -- it was the 1970s after all, the very peak of popular music.

Now, the Bee Gees, Earth, Wind & Fire, KC and the Sunshine Band, Michael Jackson, Gloria Gaynor, Chic, et al had fantastic songs that happened to be disco.
But when The Rolling Stones, Kiss, and Rod Stewart started chasing the disco trend simply by adding the THUMP-THUMP-THUMP drumbeat to their songs, people got annnoyed.
Top it off with the the Village People's childish people-in-your-neighbourhood-costumes and their simplistic novelty songs.
This was all exacerbated by opportunistic radio stations who quickly bandwagoned against disco and proclaimed themselves the solution to everyone's listening needs by being "disco-free".

And THAT'S why there was a disco backlash.

>>127397252
the peak was in 79 when every fucking song on the Billboard was discoslop and everyone got tired of it

>>127397115
>disco sucks
naw, loads of disco is great - but you'll hear it and say, "That's not disco!" because it was good, but at the time it was considered disco.

>>127397026 (OP)
Death to Disco was a fringe movement. The aftermath of this was that Disco “died” but was resurrected in the form of New Wave and Glam Rock. And classic Disco became even more underground and less accessible, with EDM. Racially motivated? Probably. But it was more about fear of gays.

>>127397252
>Top it off with the the Village People's childish people-in-your-neighbourhood-costumes and their simplistic novelty songs.
Reminder that Dump loves those guys.

>>127397026 (OP)
>rockists
Shut the fuck up

>>127397026 (OP)
Why are poptimist retards such narcassist sociopaths?

>>127397309
It was this:
>>127397252
>>127397252
>>127397252
disco wasn't any more "black" than pop was.

and it wasn't gay, tho there were gay clubs featuring currently trendy disco music in big cities like NYC, Toronto, LA.
And there were some somewhat fringe gay disco artists like Sylvester and The Weather Girls. Later there were rumours about The Village People but if they were gay they def weren't 'out'.

>>127397393
If anything it was really guido rather than black.

>>127397419
yeah that's true hahaha

>>127397026 (OP)
Disco legit sucked and we should've done this with hip hop a long time ago.

Italo disco though. That was not in the united states. or in italy either in such of the cases or many of the cases that were such as that.

>>127397645
based post

>>127397645
disco hate was thinly veiled racism & sexism

let people enjoy things, if its not for you move and do your thing without the hate

>>127397821
stfu bot

>>127397390
it's the little hats

I guess you'll find out when your music dies too.

>>127397072
Sad to think you are already replaceable with AI.

Isn’t disco just funk mixed to fit a pop beat?

>>127398250
go back

Its funny many rock bamds i like dig disco

These based folks were the canary in a coalmine. They recognized the cultural forces coming to destroy American society and dared to openly rebel. We are bereft without their kind today.