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I always thought Lovelines had a disco vibe in it. I wish they had done a disco album. May have turned their career around very much.
Karen seems to be having a blast,Richard not so much dancing to The hustle.
I always thought Lovelines had a disco vibe in it. I wish they had done a disco album. May have turned their career around very much.
To look to where Disco can go wrong... look no further than Ethel Merman's Disco album.
It becomes campy. By the late 70s, it was cliche and considered "selling out."
Why is that disco gets a bad rap but rap doesn't get a bad disco?!
Yes, at the time of "Space Encounters," disco was pervasive, and it was almost expected that top 40 acts would record at least one disco song, including the following: Barbra Streisand, Cher, Kiss, Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney & Wings, etc. Before becoming famous, A&M artist Bryan Adams put out a disco song, "Let Me Take You Dancing," a song you won't see on any of his compilations/CDs because he later admitted displeasure over that recording, in part because his vocal was sped up (in his view, almost chipmunk-like; ). Another recording you won't find easily in compilations is the disco version of Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark" . But I fondly remember both songs being played, as the young kids say, "in da club!"
As Karen attempted with her solo album, it appears that Carpenters were trying to branch out by including disco in their TV special. Karen was clearly comfortable with, and enjoyed, the genre.
I love disco. I continue to play it to this day. I have excitedly found obscure disco songs from long ago, songs I hadn't heard since those "club" days but recognize and remember fondly. As with playing Carpenters' songs --- something we all do here --- the music transports me back to my youth and brings a smile to my face. Such will always be the case...
Was this the true end of the disco era? July 12, 1979;
The biggest problem I had with disco (aside from the monotonous beat) was the vapid lyrics. Much credit to the Bee Gees for giving their singles some lyrical heft, probably helped along by having a movie plotline that they needed to support. Not so true of garbage like "Boogie Oogie Oogie" and a bunch of other dreck that lyrically didn't amount to anything more than "Shake shake shake" or whatever. "My Body Keeps Changing My Mind" isn't much better in that regard.