The war of disco forced a separation of the races in music that ultimately led to hip-hop and ultimately rap, for that the war on disco could be seen as winning the battle but losing the war (musically).

I was a child at the time, so I wasn't fully tuned in to popular culture, but I remember that disco was everywhere. It was constantly playing on the radio, and advertisements and even children's programs were set to a disco beat. Then, seemingly overnight, it was gone. In my lifetime, I've never seen another pop culture trend collapse so suddenly and completely. During the 1980s and 1990s, disco was so un-cool that even the nerds wouldn't go near it. Merely hearing the word was enough to give people the desire to vomit. However, disco wasn't immune to the nostalgia cycle. After about 20 years have passed, people who were teenagers when a cultural trend was popular enter midlife and become nostalgic for simpler times. By the late 1990s, the nostalgia cycle had brought disco back from the dead, and it was cool again. Disco Demolition Night is a symbol of the collapse of disco, but it wouldn't have gone anywhere if it hadn't been tapping into a substantial sea of discontent. By 1979, disco was pervasive, and corporations cashed in on the trend by producing a lot of mediocre music with a simple disco beat. What had once been a new and innovative style of music had become the rhythm of cheesy advertisements. People had simply grown tired of it. Yes, there likely were some undercurrents of racism and homophobia, but overexposure was the real problem. Nowadays, I don't think a phenomenon like disco could happen. The media environment and pop culture in general are too fragmented. We all sit in our little cultural bubbles, and it is difficult for anything to pierce those bubbles and take the world by storm.

Steve Dahl is one really petty man. Had to take the fun out of disco for everyone since DDN is credited for the fall of the popularity of disco music. At least there was the "post disco" sub genre that carried onto 1980 for a little bit.

Heard an interview with Steve on WRIF, the Detroit rock station, JJ and the morning crew talked to Steve over the phone the next morning and thanked him for the Tiger's win by forfeit. Toledo and Detroit stations at the time were also into the Anti-disco movement. Personally it wasn't that Disco was bad, there was good disco but also a lot of bad disco that was nothing more that a 4 on the floor beat for dancing and little else. But it was the lack of other music styles as almost every artist was putting out a disco album that really pushed me into the anti-disco movement, I've always desired a wide variety of music and styles and while no single station could fulfill my needs(especially after radio narrowed it's formats in the mid 70's) disco was the opposite of what I wanted, it was a very narrow format that had become so successful that it was almost impossible to hear any other format. Many of us were more than ready for disco to die, sadly it has resurfaced with names like club music but it hasn't become the dominate format that it was in the 70's

I was a teen at the time. One was either with the disco loving crowd or the rock and roll loving crowd.

That one night really pissed off the Bee Gees. i remeber them grumbling about it. They had the most to lose.

Disco didn't die it evolved into the acid house Movement in the 80s most of the Disco labels went to Chicago or to Detroit, flash forward to the late 90s french acts like Cassius, daft punk, dj falcon, and just to name a few. Disco also created the foundation of Chicago House and the Detroit Electro scene

Ah, Steve Dahl and his group Teenage Radiation. I've heard so much of these guys on The Dr. Demento Show. Other parodies that caused controversy was "Another Kid in the Crawl" (a parody of "Another Brick in the Wall" about John Wayne Gacy) and "E.T.'s Adventures in L.A." (which, if I recall correctly, was so off the wall that Steve Spielberg forced Dr. Demento and other stations not to play it again; let alone release it. He did the same thing to "E.T. Boogie" by The Extra T's and "I Had Sex with E.T." by Barnes & Barnes.) Suffice to say, Steve's crudeness knew no bounds.

Steve Dahl was the guy howard stern ripped off

cool video i liked it

@18:27 *meant to say football not baseball lol

I was 12 years' old when Disco Duck came out. I LOVE THAT SONG! Don't be a cluck! Witch Hazel. Look into it.

Discos Dead...Rocks Ahead!

@jamesklatt

28 күн бұрын

And with the rise of the honkytonk country was just beginning its rise.

They even did a disco version of "theres no business like show business". That should have shut music itself down.

The absolute official end of Disco, they say is when My Sharona topped the charts just a few weeks later. Disco still hung on barely though. But all in intent and purpose, it was over.

This was the last baseball game not football.

1:14 It's a joke, though

Disco was dying out by the time Disco Demolition night occurred. Disco Duck ,I Love Lucy theme disco ,Brady Bunch variety hour in which they sang disco so gs helped kill disco it was a fad just like Grunge and Eurodance in the '90s

@jordashi

4 ай бұрын

Eurodance was an extension of electronic music which that genre found its roots in Disco

@couldntmixapotnoodle

3 ай бұрын

Eurodance was pretty good IMO. Never beat ItaloDance though,

I was very much keyed into the "war on disco" and people today make it out to have been a racist, homophobic thing. I don't remember anyone framing it in those terms, I certainly didn't. Perhaps some people at the time felt they were being attacked, it certainly was not the intent.

@ryanpeck3377

4 ай бұрын

While disco May have originated from Funk and started in Gay clubs by the Death of Disco it was The mainstream genre. All the top songs were disco. Many pop musicians had released disco albums, the joke song Disco Duck was a huge hit. It was Everywhere and listened to by everyone. At the time the vast, vast majority of people had no clue were it came from and just liked it... Disco died from over exposure. Like anything (movie generes, music genres etc) after awhile when it's everywhere you get sick of it. And disco was Everywhere (on radio, on TV, in movies, in store background music)

@tomdalton4293

4 ай бұрын

@@ryanpeck3377 Interesting that Disco Duck came out in September 1976, more than a year before Saturday Night Fever

@jordashi

4 ай бұрын

It's annoying that people seem to forget a lot of those records weren't just disco records, it was popular black artists who weren't even disco acts. Another thing people seem to miss is the fact that the civil rights movement was barely 10 years old when the disco sucks movement began. In some aspects yes it was a response to an oversaturation of disco music in the music market, but it also was a response to the overexposure of black and Latino gay culture. Let's not forget that the gay rights movement was in full swing in the 70s as well as the second wave of feminism. If it needed to be spelled out that racism played a role in this, many black artists from that point on wouldn't top the billboard album charts or even barely topped the hot 100 until the rise of Michael Jackson.

@fenian123

4 ай бұрын

@@jordashi You are right that the backlash damaged the careers of many black artists disproportionately, however I do not believe the war on disco was a conscious attack on black artists, fans or any other group. Barry Manilow was as ridiculed and derided as much as any disco act and he is white

@MsJaytee1975

3 ай бұрын

Did the racist, misogynistic white boys not tell people they were doing it for racist, misogynistic reasons? I guess it was all about the music. 🙄