If for some reason, listening to a queer person describe their identity during pride month is something you cannot sit through, the video begins at 11:51 ish

@T.Florenz

23 күн бұрын

It takes a lot of courage to stand up for yourself in today's world. Proud of you! 🧡

@SkyeID

23 күн бұрын

I hope no one skips, because it's important.

@leatherhoff4569

23 күн бұрын

I hope this isn't weird but I loved this part and this is what hooked me into your channel. I hope your channel blows up from this, it was beautiful.

It's so annoying. House and Techno went the way of Rock and Roll and Blues, as soon it was exported back to the US via Europe, everyone forgot It's roots.

@lucretia_macevil

25 күн бұрын

We gotta keep reminding people lol

@lordnokia4222

21 күн бұрын

Modern culture colonialism is for posers, only the realest bother to look up roots of an artist's influence.

@gadblatz4841

20 күн бұрын

Not everyone.

@jnnx

19 күн бұрын

That’s hilarious. I go out EVERY SINGLE week and celebrate black centered house and techno. The underground exists in every single city and town, but you have to do work to FIND IT. . .

@mr.jayjay2401

8 күн бұрын

Yeah, everyone, including black people who view house and techno as white music. Blows my mind.

Fact: You don't get David Guetta, Tiesto, or Deadmau5 without Crystal Waters & the Basement Boys. Basically...that "Sexy Bitch" was "Homeless" at some point. If you hear the classic organ chords, you're welcome. 🎹❤😊

@plutonian_accountant

22 күн бұрын

Oooo, I like how you did that!!!

@jnnx

19 күн бұрын

Except you still have Karizma and Maurice Fulton from the Basement Boys, and they’ll never inflict bad EDM on your ears whenever you hear them DJ in person. . .

BROOOO IM ABOUT TO EAT THIS UP... THE WAY I'VE BEEN READY TO SEE A LONG VIDEO LIKE THIS delving into the roots of edm !! this is hella exciting as a Black nb

@lucretia_macevil

26 күн бұрын

I hope you enjoy ❤️

@232tt80

25 күн бұрын

@@lucretia_macevili just finished this and i loved it . i’ll probably be back with more on how important and meaningful this was after i’ve fully digested it i also collected the names of Black queer collectives/artists in this video that i’ll be listening to very intensely over the next eternity as i formulate my thoughts thank you so much yo !

@emofangz

22 күн бұрын

ayyy fellow black nb!!

I'm black, I'm nonbinary, and I'm thankful that I found you. You're speaking my language!

This is why I will always love daft punk and other djs from their era. They picked through the murdered corpse of disco and said they wouldn't let it die.

@rainbowkittycat627

21 күн бұрын

I TOTALLY AGREEE!!!

@rathernotsay1648

20 күн бұрын

not only that but they made sure to give props to their influences, like shouting out a bunch of them (mainly african-american chicago house artists) in "teachers" and even featuring them on their songs (romanthony, nile rodgers, etc) that being said they don't always credit their samples... then again they used so many that they'd prob get paid nothing once royalties are outta the way lol

@jnnx

19 күн бұрын

Daft Punk were rich trust funders CARPETBAGGERS, who SOLDOUT. Disco is still be celebrated in certain house and techno circles. EDM is pop music and has very little to do with the dance music scene. Daft Punk moved away from the house scene and the DJs who made them who they are.

@jnnx

19 күн бұрын

@@rathernotsay1648One of the DJ’s who they name check on “Teachers” DJ Deeon (who passed away last year, R.I.P. Deeon Boyd), said that once “Teachers” came out, he never heard from either member of Daft Punk. Daft Punk wants to cash in on DJ black culture, but they don’t want to engage in it.

@rainbowkittycat627

19 күн бұрын

@@jnnx I can’t say I have a take about the daft punk stuff, But I TOTALLY AGREE THAT EDM IS POP AND NOT DANCE MUSIC

✨🎵🏳️‍🌈🎶✨HAPPY BLACK QUEER PRIDE MUSIC MONTH!!! 🌈🎉

@lucretia_macevil

24 күн бұрын

🕺🏾🕺🏾🕺🏾

The erasure of the disco/house/techno pioneers makes my blood boil, so im always so happy to see people speaking on it, and you speak so comprehensively on this shit. So glad i found your channel. I can't wait to watch your back catalog! Keep up the video essays and music!

@lucretia_macevil

25 күн бұрын

Thanks for the love 💖

@NicholasSeamans

25 күн бұрын

I would not really say there is erasure... The mainstream edm scene does ignore it but it is more complicated than this. The house and techno scenes are still pretty distinct. Jeff Mills, DJ Rush, DJ Sneak, Masters at Work, Octave One, Carl Craig, and a lot more still get large crowds.

@lucretia_macevil

24 күн бұрын

@@NicholasSeamans but there is erasure. They still get large crowds but it’s people who are already familiar with them being the pioneers. There’s erasure because people assume techno and house came from Europe instead of coming TO Europe.

@SlapsyJaxy

24 күн бұрын

@@NicholasSeamans I've had to straight up argue with str8 boys about disco, house and techno being black/queer inventions. They don't want to accept that us white people didn't invent absolutely everything. As a music producer I see this shit all the time, especially in the music prod community. The queer, black and brown history of house might be somewhat well known to queer club goers and music lovers, but the majority of the straight, cis people in the audience are clueless. Not to mention that there was a time I barely knew any of this. There's a lot of denial, white-washing and straight-washing of history. Same thing happened when white people started playing jazz and we tried just as hard to claim it as a white invention. It's a well known phenomenon, so I try to resist it as much as possible.

@NicholasSeamans

24 күн бұрын

@@SlapsyJaxy It could be that I am following entirely different scenes than you. There are a lot of scenes in dance music. A lot of the underground might as well be an entirely different genre. You're not going to hear this at a Dj Sneak event. Start looking at artists highlighted through sites like Resident Advisor. Everything kind of sucks about the tech,bass, and festival house scenes. A lot of people in EDM just have an illusion of being famous and doing drugs.

I'm very very glad you decided to make this video and i enjoyed watching this alot. I'm a white music producer myself and i've known that the history of electronic music is deeply connected with the black and queer communities (This goes for pretty much all the sub genres whether it's house, techno, drum and bass, hip hop). Unfortunately either though i knew it has it's origins in black and queer space, alot of the foundational acts don't get talked about alot; which i think is a huge shame. It's not only the actual electronic acts but also the samples that are in alot of these songs come from black and queer artists. I love showing others songs like "Love Sensation by Loleatta Holloway" or "Something's Got A Hold On Me by Etta James" because they have to realisation that alot of popular music samples alot of older music with little to no credit

@lucretia_macevil

26 күн бұрын

You’re so right about the samples! Thanks for this comment.

Mildred brought me to F.D. F.D. brought me to you. And now you've taken me back home. I grew up south of Chicago in the 80's and had no idea where house, techno, and EDM came from. It just blew up around me. Love your work. Always a pleasure.

@lucretia_macevil

25 күн бұрын

🖤❤️💚

Wanting to be Vegeta but also being attracted to Vegeta is so relatable

@lucretia_macevil

24 күн бұрын

lmao, finally - someone gets me

@PanderingSlats

20 күн бұрын

be the hothead Saiyan prince you want to see in the world

this video is literally perfect for me, because as a puerto rican american trans woman getting into actually producing on ableton myself, i’ve been trying to reconnect with my cultural and historical background and directly represent that in my music. Like knowing how much the people who come from similar circumstances and backgrounds as i do contributed to something that’s been so heavily co-opted by white people, witnessing and experiencing that shit like in my life has been ass but now watching this vid i feel more passionate in my pursuit of art

@lucretia_macevil

25 күн бұрын

Puerto Ricans were there! Making disco! House music! Trans women were there! Making house and disco! Puerto Ricans made bass music which is still influenced by artists all over. You belong! Not only do you belong but this is your space

@amamad1859

23 күн бұрын

@@lucretia_macevil 🥹🥹 i’m gonna cry

ohhhh i really adore this!! 😭when i was a black nonbinary kid raised around my parent's records (my dad's hiphop, rap, house, edm interest, my mom's smooth jazz, soul, gospel, RnB interest), they really shaped my current love of songs with disco/funk/rnb inspirations (City Pop, Future Funk genres and songs from Daft Punk). seeing the true roots of the songs, the genres, the HEART of it... i truly appreciate it! thank you so much. so glad the algo dropped this on my lap! 🙌🏾✌🏾✨

lmao you got me reading about Phuture and i'm dead: The relationship between [acid tracks] and drug culture led to the group developing the track "Your Only Friend", a song with anti-drug lyrics, which Jones recalled "didn't even get across like that, people literally, in Chicago, would go get their drugs when that song came on. And I was thinking, Oh crap, you guys, I'm trying to tell you something."

@lucretia_macevil

25 күн бұрын

Being anti drug while creating the genre acid house is funny as hell lmao

cis straight white guy, I’ve always loved disco, was raised to love everyone, and the most love I ever got from a crowd was DJ’ing Pride events back in the day Thank you for an opportunity to learn more history about a culture I’m happy to have been allowed to participate in❤ Edit: great vid so far, love knowing there are kids keeping the history alive. Keep up the good work 🙂 Edit 2: Drexciya deep dive after this

I thought I was the only person who felt inspired after learning the history of house & electronic music (rock/punk as well). It felt like an epiphany- like of course Black [Queer] people are behind this!

This channel is quickly becoming one of the most thought provoking and well researched essay channels out here. I did not know any of this history and was riveted the whole way through. I intend to re-watch in future as well. Thank you for your hard work and I hope you make more content!

@lucretia_macevil

26 күн бұрын

Wow, thank you! More stuff def on the way

I feel like we were taken on a journey. And I got so much joy out of it. I knew nothing about house and techno music, and I got so much joy learning about it.

@lucretia_macevil

25 күн бұрын

🕺🏾🤩💖that’s great to hear

every once in a while youtube's algorithm does good and sends me great channels. this is one of those times.

Punk also had its roots in black and queer culture but wasn't mainstreamed. When it was, it definitely took a turn for the worse. (Thinking about hardcore punk) I love this video 💜Thank you Lucretia

@lucretia_macevil

17 күн бұрын

I made a video about hardcore if you want to watch it

I love that people are discovering the roots of Disco. I went on a disco deep dive last year and was absolutely appalled that these weirdos felt comfortable being that openly racist. Now that a certain demographic wants to praise it when it comes from Dua Lipa or Sabrina Carpenter and throw silent Discos 🪩 here in big cities it's a big F you to those that came before us. I won't disregard the acceptance in Europe because many Black artists sought refuge in Europe it just still stings a bit.

Disco is a tough one... as I grew up with punk, then grunge and alt rock, and those 3 can easily be argued as a reaction to disco... also, I do not feel comfortable dancing, at all. Ever since those horrid "dances" we were seemingly forced to attend in middle school, and to the sounds of early 80s pop, at that. Anyways, thx for this. It's always wonderful to have all the bubbles I've created for myself popped. The truth shall set us free, indeed. EDIT: addendum - It goes without saying, that the vast majority of the "punks" I grew up with have all become "chuds", mostly what can be considered libertarians, but many also RW fuckheads. If not those 2, then confused "Libs". No one I can think of stayed alt/progressive/punk, and none that I know of now being radical leftists. Just me. GenX was tricked out of the revolution * sigh *

@mrpieceofwork

26 күн бұрын

Please interact with this comment. YT didn't like the f word term I used. It would be nice for the system to tell the difference. Just using a truthful term. jfc

@lucretia_macevil

26 күн бұрын

I appreciate your open mindedness about disco! I think if I showed you some good records, you’d appreciate the writing at the very least :)

@dtanaka869-d

26 күн бұрын

​@@lucretia_macevilYour list of disco records would be great, I'd love a starting point

@lucretia_macevil

22 күн бұрын

@@dtanaka869-dDonna summer everything! But I’ll definitely make a Spotify playlist, a few people asked ❤

EDM is itself a term to culturally appropriate House music.

@Kalitayy

14 күн бұрын

EDM is the bastard child of House. It was never Dutch or French, they're just colonizers. It's one of the genres that has been destroyed by white men, sadly.

Peolle like jeff mills and robert hood deserve so much more respect for being pioneers in techno and still bringing out amazing music after all these years. Especially Robert hood, going from minimal hypnotic techno to soulful gospel house with his daughter under floorplan and always keeping it fresh for 3 decades. What an artist

You warmed my little black and queer heart with this fantastic video!!! THANK YOU FOR SHARING!!!!!!

@lucretia_macevil

24 күн бұрын

You’re very welcome❤️

Disco is tremendously good, I don't know why people hated it at the time. I especially loved how it employed "orchestral" instruments violin and the cello/bass along with the piano. Not to mention the complex chord progressions. They employed 7th, 9th, and 11th chords in quick succession. It's bizarre to see that it was treated as "simple music" when it is waaaay more challenging to play.

this video came out at the perfect time for me. i am a black queer trans man and i have had serious thoughts of becoming a dj locally and producing music. i had this sick imposter syndrome, my brain constantly telling me i will never make anything as good as other producers, until i realized where edm comes from. i couldn't be more proud knowing my family comes out of chicago as well. i have never felt more grounded in my life. i usually feel so lost in the society we live in, but reconnecting with this culture- my culture- is a beautiful way to be found again. thank you for this video, it felt like a hug !!

@lucretia_macevil

25 күн бұрын

It was meant to be a hug! Thank you so much for this comment, I’m glad it could make you feel more confident. It’s okay if you are learning while you make music - the pioneers also had no clue!❤️🖤💚

@Endmass

25 күн бұрын

Make music! To me it's the purest form of self expression, and even when I'm just messing around I find myself happier after a little session or even when I'm just burping into my tablet at lunch messing with a sampler.

I haven't watched the whole video, but as someone who listens to a lot of music including EDM and electronic music as a whole, it's sad how EDM has been bastardized by white male capitalists and turned into something that is synonymous with soulless cashgrab which ruins the reputation of the genre even more. I'm talking about "artists" like David Guetta, Zedd, Chainsmokers, Alan Walker, etc. So whenever people talk about EDM, it's always those colonizers that get the limelight. It's also crazy how the people who are against disco and electronic music are mostly white men who favor rock and metal, which are ironically also originated from African American music (Blues and Jazz)

@lucretia_macevil

26 күн бұрын

Thanks for this comment! I really don’t like David Guetta - but he is a technically objectively good dj Lmao so I will give him that only.

@rainbowkittycat627

25 күн бұрын

This is percisely the reason I don’t call any dance music from before 2010s edm!! To me, dance music is the queer and black art, and edm is the bastardization of that art from people like skrillex who combined brostep and white trap in the early 2010s!

@fightingwolf18

24 күн бұрын

Would you consider Steve Aoki part of that bunch? I don't know much about his personality l, but I loved "Boneless(Delirious)".

@rainbowkittycat627

24 күн бұрын

@@fightingwolf18 Me personally? Absolutely! Steve Aoki fits right along side the Zedds and David Guetta’s of the world. There are edm-ish artists that I can either respect or have enough respectful dance music that I can appreciate, (Flume, noisia, rustie, hudson mohawke) That I can at least respect them even if I don’t like all of their output- Steve Aoki is absolutely not one of those people. You can like his music or not, but he absolutely has been a big part of the system that has bastardized queer and black art, imo.

@fightingwolf18

24 күн бұрын

​@@rainbowkittycat627That's interesting. This whole video's been an eye-opener.

I'm a HUGE EDM head and Daft Punk fan. I love myself some disco, funk, and rnb. I learned a lot of history from this video. I had no idea that the reason people had such a hatred against disco was because they wanted to be racist and homophobic. I always thought they were just mad that disco was kinda corny. Cuz let's be honest, it IS corny. But that's why I love it so much! It's so upbeat and positive and it's my belief that disco will never truly die. I'm obsessed with Future Funk which is usually just old disco songs that are sampled, remixed, chopped up, and given a fresh coat of paint. It's basically French House for weebs 😂 I love tracking down the samples and listening to the original songs. I've discovered a lot of great artists doing that!

@lucretia_macevil

25 күн бұрын

Disco is known to be corny because it was made to be corny! Disco duck and The Bee Gees are not the same as Donna summer. commercial disco is corny in the same way Taylor swift is corny. Commercialized music will always be devoid of its nature flavor. But it’s important to not conflate the two: disco itself isn’t inherently corny or bad. Just what it was remembered for, was the stereotypes. People have negative thoughts about disco because of the anti disco era. You can’t be a fan of daft punk and call disco corny when daft punks main influence is disco😭

@Sqwivig

17 күн бұрын

@@lucretia_macevil I KNOW Daft Punk's main influence was disco! I'm not stupid! And I wasn't insulting disco when I said it was corny. I meant that in an endearing way. I'm sorry but how did you get ANY negative vibes from the comment I left? You're being kinda rude. I fucking love disco. Don't ever tell me that I don't! I LIKE that it's corny sometimes! I LIKE that the lyrics can be nonsensical (Earth Wind and Fire's September). And I LIKE the older disco that wasn't commercialized. I like the disco that WAS commercialized. I LIKE IT ALL! I was being positive. When did I ever say being corny was a bad thing!?

Thank you for this! Gay history is usually ignored so a lot of people don't know about these things. Even with this hour long video, there are still more interesting things for people to learn about. Jersey Club music was inspired by Baltimore Club also called Baltimore House. Similar to how House was made by increasing the bass and remixing old Disco songs, Jersey Club was made by female DJs remixing old songs. In your song at 56:15 in the video, I can hear the popular Jersey Club drum pattern. Disco didn't just inspired Europeans, but also Japanese people and their version of Disco (CityPop). In Dream Come True's song "kessen wa kinyoubi" (決戦は金曜日) you can hear inspiration from Earth, Wind & Fire's "Let's Groove" and Cheryl Lynn's "Got to Be Real". The guy from Dream Come True also made the music for the video games Sonic 1 and Sonic 2, and you can hear a similar sound in the music for one of Sonic 1's levels called "Labyrinth Zone". CityPop (basically Japanese Disco) made it's way into some songs for anime and video games. Disco had a huge influence not just in American and Europe, but even as far as Japan.

Dance music fads in the US are always quickly crushed when conservative cultural movements take over. The same thing happened in response to 2010s electropop.

Lucretia, I learn someone new from every one of your videos. There is no higher praise from me. This is a great video. It's funny. I recently came out to my family as NB myself. I still use "He" and also They/Them pronouns too. I present as masc, but I have never seen myself as gendered. If at 51, I could learn the language to describe who I am and use it, there remains hope for us all. When you discuss blackness and queerness, I feel you so deeply. I'm a subscriber of yours until I'm dead or you stop producing videos. Keep them coming, fam!

@lucretia_macevil

25 күн бұрын

Thanks so much for this comment. I see you friend 💖

@develrandomdankmemes7586

7 күн бұрын

proud of you

What Tom Morello is saying here (around 16:50) is spot on. We need far more People to realize this. The music industry is one giant psyop (and a huge money maker for the parasite class) Notice how voices like his aren't necessarily amplified, compared to the likes of Beiber, as he mentions...

@lucretia_macevil

26 күн бұрын

Exactly! It’s never just music

Just want to leave a quick comment to say thank you for talking about Drexciya! They are absolutely amazing and I hope a lot of people are inspired by them as well as you to make new music through that inspiration just like you are now!

There really is a sense of positive community that is shared through the music of house, and a sense of a fighting spirit in techno. You can tell when an edm song is made to sound cool, and not to feel. This was such a good video ❤️❤️

ngl lucretia this made me cry a bit ☠️ idk if it’s silly to feel so much pride for smth i’ve unfortunately yet to be a part of having always been a fly in the milk, but seeing how amazing and influential black queer folx and communities have been in creating these genres of music is so fcking cool dude tysm for this 🖤🏳️‍⚧️🌈🤎

@lucretia_macevil

24 күн бұрын

You’re welcome! I can relate to that feeling so I had to set the record straight. We aren’t guests here.😊

This video came at literally the perfect time, recently i started getting into music like this. Fire vid🔥🔥

@lucretia_macevil

25 күн бұрын

Thank you 💖

I might not be a midwesterner, but thank you for drawing this picture 🧡

I really dont like EDM however what I HATE MORE is when people refuse to acknowledge EDM roots being a Black American Experience Blues RnB Soul Jazz Jive Soul Funk and all that paved the way for so many sounds to this day, disrespectful to exclude EDM

Lucretia I LOVE this video. I was raised on classic rock and totally bought into the disco sucks stance (but of course not “Miss You” by The Rolling Stones and similar stabs at disco from rock bands I liked), and as I grew more musically curious and adventurous I realized that disco was not just incredible music, but also as revolutionary as punk (and I would argue more so as it challenged the status quo covertly rather than overtly so was more difficult to point to as subversive when it absolutely was). Disco to me feels like a real inflection point in the greater culture, and most people don’t realize how much of the music we consume today wouldn’t exist without disco. Also thank you for your thoughts on gender, my egg recently cracked and I’m figuring out what it means to be queer and non-binary after 40 years of uncomfortably identifying as a cishet man. Hearing the perspectives of others and the way they experience and navigate gender is so valuable. ❤

@lucretia_macevil

24 күн бұрын

Im so glad to hear you related to this in a lot of different ways 💖💖🥰thank you for watching and allowing me to share info

Came here to learn a little more about Disco Demo Night, I dig country music and its something I've heard a lot about mentioned casually or tangentially and wanted to know how the whole Disco Sucks thing happened. Didn't really make the connection until you drew the comparison between how folks talk about Hip Hop now and understanding it as a dog whistle. It kinda all clicked into place after that. Thanks for a great video!

really happy this channel found me! 💜 great video. an important topic presented very well

I'm so glad this was part of my recommended videos! I've been a dance and electronica fan since the 90's when Eurodance was big. As I got older, that transitioned into house music, especially when I found labels like Ministry of Sound and Hed Kandi. I knew that house and its older sister genre disco were founded in minority culture and history. Especially Black and Queer musical identities, because dance music has always been an act of rebellion. I'm so here to see younger people picking up on this and exploring the roots of the genre more thoroughly. I couldn't ask for anything more during Pride this year.

I had no idea techno came out of Detroit! Thanks for setting the record straight, I feel like I've been missing out on a lot of important history. Where I'm from, they don't teach any music history outside of Europe or after 1900 in school, and it's sad that these genres or even their predecessors aren't deemed important enough to talk about. Especially when that history is so much more interesting and relevant to us today than some dead white guy's life 300 years ago 😂

@Endmass

25 күн бұрын

We certainly don't forget here, to the point it's on billboards off I-75. For a deeper dive, "techno rebels" by dan sicko (rip) is a deep dive into techno itself. "Acid Detroit" is also a fantastic read, but I'm only a few chapters in.

@lucretia_macevil

25 күн бұрын

Right, they’re not the only form of music or the only record of music history

@maitele

25 күн бұрын

It's crazy too, cause in many cases that knowledge has been in plain sight this whole time. 808 State's Martin Price was a moonlight performer: his main gig was running Eastern Bloc, the famed Mancunian importer and storefront of *Detroiter* records; Detroit influence is smeared *all over* Newbuild. I think a lot of people just havent thought to commit the histories of this genre to their memory.

I'm listening/watching your videos for the first time and THANK-YOU so much for your sharing about such powerful and very much needed topics. I'm looking forward to learning more from so many of your videos. Thank-you for sharing about your own personal journey. Happy Black Music and Pride Month!!!

Hell yeah, this is a really well put together essay! I'm coming from the European side, so there's definitely gaps in my knowledge in the early days of disco to post disco outside of parliament, so this has given me some good further reading and listening. Going by how expansive your sourced videos were, you've probably spotted it, but in case you haven't there's a good BBC documentary that has some parallels to what you're covering here - everybody in the place. covers the early rave scene coming out of Caribbean discrimination and the coal miners strikes in the uk, interesting because coal strikers and queer rights protesters often went hand in hand for working class solidarity.

Sometimes the conversations around identity can be confusing because in an effort of to define everything, nothing has a real definition. Even the definitions are fluid. Great PoV, enjoyed the video and thoughts presented.

Fantastic video! Thank you for your time and effort and emotional labor. I know so much more now than I did before and I appreciate you ^^

This video was excellent!. I’m from DC but I grew up on Baltimore and Jersey House music. Today I believe that artists such as Kaytranada continue on our amazing Legacy in this genre of music.

As a nb biracial person with parents that met dancing to house music I needed this video even more than I thought I did when I clicked on it. Thank you so much! Where can I listen to it buy some of your music?

@lucretia_macevil

25 күн бұрын

You’re so welcome! My SoundCloud is here: on.soundcloud.com/vKdjtgFZoMTjxg7P7

for my entire life i thought disco music was german synth pop like Alphaville and the works of Dieter Bohlen (C.C Catch, Blue systems, and the band everyone wants to forget, Modern Talking). I learned something today

i was having a huge conversation with my friend about this due to the increase in love around edm/party/dance music. so excited to watch this :)

You are and ALWAYS will be THAT Bish‼️‼️‼️ The younger Sister I always wanted!!

@lucretia_macevil

24 күн бұрын

🥰😘

im so happy i got to watch this. even just the way you explained the difficulty of being both femme and queer echoes how ive felt since i came to terms with my transfemininity. i knew disco demolition was weird and racist but i didn't know that it was also a reaction to the queer roots of the genre. thank you for such a well researched and articulated video!

@lucretia_macevil

25 күн бұрын

You’re so welcome ❤️🖤💚💖

Im white and queer and wasn't even aware of EDM's black (or queer) roots 💀 Ty for making this video and making me learn about this! :D

This is so good. A great video. I want to cry but its out of love ❤ Glad I found this one.

Such a great essay on this bit of history, thanks for creating this 😊

22:50 The videos playing stadium rock guitars and drums adjusted slightly being just disco and funk riffs simmered in the chlorine of hate says a lot. It wasn’t just the look. Then these people would travel to Europe and emulate the styles and sounds found there except that all came from Chicago, Philly, New York, Miami, and the whole of the Caribbean.

Fantastic music history lesson, thank you for your essay!

Amazing content. Thank you so much for the deep analysis and the revindication of Dance music as a direct line of heritage in Black Music family tree. Would love to see you speaking about the correlation between Hip-Hop's early days and the NY Ballroom scene, is something I've thinking about a lot and has not been discussed so much. Lots of love!

@lucretia_macevil

25 күн бұрын

House music started the ballroom scene as we know of it today, so I’m sure there’s plenty to cover! Thanks for your comment

Ngl, I was not expecting to be able to watch the whole video because the topic was not of interest to me but you really have a way with words and the editing is solid. I ended up watching the whole video and I am so glad that I did. Keep it up!

@lucretia_macevil

12 күн бұрын

@@cyckosic thanks so much for giving it a chance!

Tysm for making this video so much of what's said in this video needs to be heard.

Drexciya is so amazing. First time i heard songs like wavejumper or black sea i couldnt belive these tracks were over still 20 years old, still sound fresh and original now

@lucretia_macevil

6 күн бұрын

Were they recorded in 1999? Or did they get dropped off from the year 3450 lmao. I love them so much!

I love what you bring to the table. I don't want to be harsh or anything like that but I think that presenting the topic in a more improvisational casual talk way would make the content more engaging. Keep it up 💙

@lucretia_macevil

5 күн бұрын

@@TeacheReady I appreciate your comment! I am autistic and like to write scripts so I don’t forget all the information I researched. I have more conversational videos up: about the Kendrick Drake beef and about punk and hardcore if you’d like to check them out ❤️🥰

I’m mostly commenting for the algorithm butttt this was so well done! Both educational and entertaining!! Thank you♥️♥️♥️

@lucretia_macevil

25 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching!

this was so much more than i expected, truly outstanding work 💜

@lucretia_macevil

25 күн бұрын

Thank you! 💖

About lesbian trans men: Gay and lesbian (and straight and bi and all the rest) are quirky concepts, they come with an assumption of the person's gender, but otherwise only serves to express the gender of their partners. So people internalize lesbianism as, at least in part, simply loving women in a way that is distinct from normative straight relationships. The "also I am a woman" part can easily be assumed redundant and lacking useful nuance and thus ignored. Of course, I doubt it's this cut and dry in anyone's mind, but I think it's useful to take into consideration. I've experienced this in mlm-adjacent relationships. Some things stay significantly gay and it's publicly perceived as gay for various reasons, mostly negative and harmful but not exclusively.

Warehouse,generator, Sawyers, convent, music box etc . Tell me more spots!

@lucretia_macevil

26 күн бұрын

I wish I had a Time Machine

Cassandra is a babe, schwing!!! I watched those movies over and over as a kid, “ooooh Dreaaam Weaaver” 52:00, this is why I love electronic dance music, reminds me of my constant thoughts about legos.

thx for saying this 🔥 trying to bring this to ppls attention in the scene and this is perfect to send to ppl

another win for the algorithm gods also i see that entombed shirt 🤘

this video was so good!!!! and the first one of yours iver watched i cant wait to see more

Candi Stanton- You got the Love????!!!! Where my house heads at??

This was fantastic! Thank you for putting in the effort to catalogue this history

@lucretia_macevil

25 күн бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you for teaching me more about my favorite genre!

All I have to say is Thank You for spreading the truth

Lucretia has killed it again with another video that is deep and thought provoking. They have continued to make videos that not only are incredible but worth sharing to enlighten others.

@lucretia_macevil

25 күн бұрын

Thanks so much 💖

thank you so much for making this video

As a tween, I jumped on the anti-Disco bandwagon because disco had been appropriated by the mainstream labels, who proceeded to flood the airwaves with a billion mediocre and soulless clones. My protest was against the plastic sterile corporate atmosphere that insisted on giving us brainless meaningless pablum. In the late 70s there was this plastic veneer of insincerity that seemed to coat every corporate offering. The mainstream popular music seemed more artificially manufactured than artistically expressed. This pushed me in the direction of the Dead Kennedys. This did not make my love of Motown any less, or justify throwing shade on the disco compositions that were actual bangers (which I did not do). Again, I want to emphasize, my disdain for Disco had nothing to do with who was creating it, and everything to do with what the giant labels were doing with it (and by extension, us as the consumer).

@lucretia_macevil

17 күн бұрын

If you were a tween, obviously you weren’t apart of the disco demolition brigade. No reason to explain your position if there’s no guilt on your part.

Amazingly done!! The world needs so much more of this ❤ I really love your style of delivery, instant new subscriber!

@lucretia_macevil

24 күн бұрын

Thanks and welcome 🤗

Great Video. I’d love to hear about the history of House Music as well.

@MutantMint

25 күн бұрын

Detroit in the 70's and 80's especially

@lucretia_macevil

25 күн бұрын

I spoke about the history of house music - that’s what the Chicago section was 🤩and Detroit was spoken about in this video too…y’all didn’t watch the whole thing😂

Thanks for the video!

Finding diverse voices has helped me grow my perspective and understanding of so many things I was never aware of. I'm guilty of using girl, hun, babe, etc. It's just something I learned early and always have good intentions behind. But, now that I realize that it could be offensive, I can change my approach. Thanks!

@lucretia_macevil

24 күн бұрын

You’re welcome, thanks for watching !

excellent vid! i learned so much ^0^

this the video i needed to see. great upload happy pride and black music month

@lucretia_macevil

26 күн бұрын

Happy pride and black music month comrade ❤️🖤💚

Powerful... go forth and make music, y'all!

@lucretia_macevil

25 күн бұрын

🕺🏾🎶

@urwhitefriend

25 күн бұрын

let the children techno

First time I’m watching your channel, I love your name, and this is a fabulous and interesting video…. Please keep creating!

@harkenbroted5651

21 күн бұрын

Also at 56:51… I really relate in art being shut down by men who think they are the boss. Thank you for speaking

#CHICAGO HAS ENTERED THE MF CHAT

@lucretia_macevil

25 күн бұрын

🕺🏾🕺🏾🕺🏾🕺🏾

this is so interesting and an awesome video i love to hear stories about black historical innovation

Hey, I'm predominantly Djing Disco, House and HiNRG with some electro/electroclash in the mix. EDM was pretty much the music of my transition (trans DJ pun intended) and I was able to form my early trans femme identity in the club on events I helped organize. Also I found my mother via DJing. She's making music since the late 90s and carved out her existence as a migrant trans woman in Germany thanks to the cultural work as event organizer and curator of queer centered music events. I came across your essay after selecting records for an upcoming gig and couldn't stop til the end. As a trans woman I don't get many gigs, and DJing became more of a side thing for me the past 4 years (being white and having had access to academic education kept me afloat, after covid put an end to music as a viable career for me). But your video reminded me, that this music, although no longer at the center of my life, saved my life more than once. Once you're injected with Disco and its related genres, it never really leaves you I guess. Nowadays I make my living as a political educator, but all theory I teach aside, it's always disco and house where I return, for that reminder of what revolutionary hope feels like. When we tune in to disco, we can grip what that liberation we're working towards feels like. Thank you for reminding me of that and thanks for your work. ❤

I’m so mad at myself for sleeping on this video. hearing your experience with gender is so incredibly important and comforting

Superb!! ❤

This is an amazing video that talks about a topic i mentioned to F.D. Signifier lately. I appreciate you putting some of my same thoughts into this format. Ive always felt attached and apart of these genres like house, and jungle and there are way too many white guys who cant mix, who have allegations of abuse who still get to throw shows. That cant happen without white people letting it slide. Thank you so much for everything

@lucretia_macevil

26 күн бұрын

You’re so welcome

fantastic video thank you for making it

YESSSSS GOTTA HAVE HOUSE. MUSICCC

@Akira-iq6di

26 күн бұрын

🛐

@lucretia_macevil

26 күн бұрын

All night longggggg

@thrillhouse4151

26 күн бұрын

🎹 🎹

Great video!👍

Thank you.

Great video 👍🏾

this video needs more views its very good documentation your sources for info are amazing

@lucretia_macevil

25 күн бұрын

Much appreciated!

@urwhitefriend

25 күн бұрын

@@lucretia_macevil i remember watching when house ruled the world and also getting educated through people like dj sprinkles its quite a deep dive but im glad people are wanting to make more social house and techno still

Awesome video, I learned a lot. That Drexciya track was amazing, I'd never heard that before. Also, high five fellow Ableton user!

@lucretia_macevil

25 күн бұрын

Drexciya has 100 songs that’s the best production you never heard of. Highly recommend them and U.R.!

@Endmass

25 күн бұрын

@@lucretia_macevil both me and my wallet are happy a lot of it got re pressed recently.