Reply #22: So What? Some People Liked It [View All]

Some people even built a subculture around it.

"Sanitized funk" is a bullshit argument. I was around in the era and all the kids in the "Disco SUCKS" t-shirts didn't have anything from the Ohio Players in their collections - it was Rush, Boston & Skynyrd all the way.

The backlash against disco was purely marketing-driven and, culturally speaking, it was one of the worst things to happen in the history of modern music.

Disco would have eventually petered out on its own (that was already happening). Instead, where previously there had been musical divisions between generation groups, now they were created among peer groups and one group in particular was heavily encouraged to aggressively dismiss anything that fell outside the boundary of blues-based rock. As a result of the revolt against disco, many great post-punk bands didn't get the marketing pushes they deserved, for fear of market push back.