No though I am too young to say while knowing what it was like when disco was popular.  But no. Disco is a legend that will continue to live in our hearts and minds for many years to come unlike rap and certainly unlike screamo...I hope.

edit: To clarify, I know rap has been around, but I am mostly stating as to how grossly commercialized it has become though I suppose it might find itself altered in how it is expressed in the next decade and thus survive, but whatever.

Last edited by spoon-san (10-27-2009 08:22:32 PM)

"Now take me dancing at the disco!"

I like some disco music (preferably the older material--it aged pretty well). But like with anything that gets really popular, really fast, you get sick of it.I can think of great disco songs, Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" and horrible disco songs (that I will not mention). So it's the same with any type of genre, I think. The sad thing about disco was it collasped on itself.

You certainly hear disco elements in a lot of pop music today. It was great for a lot of things and bad in some ways, you had new electronic sounds coming from that and then you had the drug and sex culture which sorta spiraled out of control. Disco was about love and excess, and punk was in a way, the antithesis to that.

Have you watched the documentary " NY 77: The Coolest Year in Hell," it's a good look at all that was going on around that time and disco and punk are discussed.

Disco dancing is dead but knowing fashion's desire to raise the unholiest fashions back to life, it could come back.