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Originally Posted by Mutt
Dance music of any generation is never the music you'd judge a generation''s music by - 70's disco was awful as were dance bands/orchestras of earlier eras.
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I was a teenager in high school playing in my first rock band when the short-lived disco era hit.
I HATED it! I wanted to be David Bowie or Mick Jagger or Steven Tyler.
But quite honestly...now that I'm older, I look back at some of that music and realize that it was pretty damn good.
The song "Stayin' Alive" by the Bee Gees is a good song.
All that old KC & The Sunshine Band stuff that made me gag as a rebellious teen...is actually fun and makes you smile when you hear it.
I suppose you accept music from the context of where you are at in your personal life at any given moment.
But the disco stuff was still MUSIC. Played and sang by musicians and performers.
These days? Even the people who can sing DON'T sing.
What I mean is...we have Britney Spears with a residency right here in Vegas where she lip synchs the whole show!
Or the other day when Justin Bieber accidentally tripped while "dancing" on the stage...and his voice magically kept singing the song even though his lips were no longer moving.
That's the kind of thing that's just fraudulent.
And EDM is the same to me.
These guys sit at home and take other people's music and use software on their laptops to do a mix.
Then they show up at MGM in Vegas and push "Play" on their laptop software and make $200,000 a night.
Meanwhile...there are great musicians in this town starving.
