Finally, terms I can understand!
According to
stephtopia, disco is the white mans watered down funk. She was telling me this while playing Jamiroquai's "Canned Heat", which I took for disco at first. 'No no,' she says, 'this is funk.' 'Disco,' said I. 'Not so,' she tells me. 'Think of it in metal terms. Disco is the hair metal of funk.'
This I grasped instantly, as it made perfect sense. I still think funk and disco both suck so hard they could collapse into singularities, but I understand the difference now. Just as hair metal is a blasphemy that sold palatable pablum to the masses, so disco is the reanimated remains of a prior form of music that expired naturally and was then set upon by 'mad scientists'.
stephtopia, disco is the white mans watered down funk. She was telling me this while playing Jamiroquai's "Canned Heat", which I took for disco at first. 'No no,' she says, 'this is funk.' 'Disco,' said I. 'Not so,' she tells me. 'Think of it in metal terms. Disco is the hair metal of funk.'
This I grasped instantly, as it made perfect sense. I still think funk and disco both suck so hard they could collapse into singularities, but I understand the difference now. Just as hair metal is a blasphemy that sold palatable pablum to the masses, so disco is the reanimated remains of a prior form of music that expired naturally and was then set upon by 'mad scientists'.