Disco...The Cheesiest music ever?

[QUINNY]

Disco...the cheesiest music ever!

Certainly appears to have that title among most younger people nowadays. Even classics (like George McCrae -Rock Your Baby and Gloria Gaynor - Never Can Say Goodbye) are universally rubbished as being nothing but cheesy wedding music.

I guess 30 years on is a big enough time span to totally alienate young people from it and (for people less than 20/25) not realise a particular record's place in the whole scheme of things.

Such is life.

[SandraDee]

Why care about what young people think anyway? Today's society seems to place too much emphasis on youngsters' views & needs IMO. Why the youth obsession? I'm very victorian in my approach; I believe children should be seen & not heard. (not 'children are our future' as the karaoke favourite goes!)

[Cdnbob]

Originally Posted by SandraDee

Why care about what young people think anyway? Today's society seems to place too much emphasis on youngsters' views & needs IMO. Why the youth obsession? I'm very victorian in my approach; I believe children should be seen & not heard. (not 'children are our future' as the karaoke favourite goes!)

I agree with you there but... I think they may have valid points to make but making them the center of the consumer society is wrong and patterning a whole industry towards them is wrong too. I'm sick of being told by the media that if you're over 30 you're unimportant, and just because you aren't Lindsay Lohan, or Ashlee Simpson that musically you don't count.

[QUINNY]

60 is the new 50, 50 is the new 40.

It's a well known fact that baby boomers actually have lots more money than youngsters and therefore more clout with all the focus groups that tell companies how to wring more moola outta us all.

Sooo... I gotta say as a 56 year old, I often feel quite sought after, if only to relieve me of some of my ill gotten gains.

[musiquelover]

Originally Posted by QUINNY

Disco...the cheesiest music ever!

Certainly appears to have that title among most younger people nowadays. Even classics (like George McCrae -Rock Your Baby and Gloria Gaynor - Never Can Say Goodbye) are universally rubbished as being nothing but cheesy wedding music.

The thing is that those 3-minute-songs that are generally presented as disco classics, be it on TV shows or at parties, are in the same vein as "YMCA", "Dancing Queen" or "Daddy Cool". In case that those songs would be the only disco songs I knew I'd probably classify disco as "cheesy wedding music" as well.

[discophil]

But why is it thought of as "cheesy"? Is it because --ironically-- it doesn't have an over-powering beat that can shake loose a car's rearview mirror? Or because it isn't laced with obscenities? Or because it doesn't talk (not sing, mind you) about slapping "ho's" and getting much "bling bling"?

If that's the case, give me "cheesy" any day.

[musiquelover]

Originally Posted by discophil

But why is it thought of as "cheesy"? Is it because --ironically-- it doesn't have an over-powering beat that can shake loose a car's rearview mirror? Or because it isn't laced with obscenities? Or because it doesn't talk (not sing, mind you) about slapping "ho's" and getting much "bling bling"?

No, it's because it's actually cheesy music dripping with sweetness that features simplistic arrangements and is performed by third-rate talents or one-hit wonders.
This is a cliché, obviously, but it's confirmed by mainstream media and those self-respected DJs with a repertoire of ten disco songs they play at every party.

[QUINNY]

Originally Posted by musiquelover

No, it's because it's actually cheesy music dripping with sweetness that features simplistic arrangements and is performed by third-rate talents or one-hit wonders.
This is a cliché, obviously, but it's confirmed by mainstream media and those self-respected DJs with a repertoire of ten disco songs they play at every party.

Gawd! What are they gonna call a lotta House music in 15 years time? The House music that featured tenth-rate talent and no arrangement at all, to speak of.

[RetroRuss]

I think that most of the cheesiest disco isn't disco at all but pop music and because it has a 4/4 beat and a disco type drumbeat then it has been classed as 'cheese'. I always thought that Melba Moore's Pick Me Up I'll Dance was fairly cheesy - played it last night and it got the biggest audience reaction of everything I played (except 1,000 Finger Man)!

A lot of people did jump on the disco bandwagon - and their lack of understanding of the genre led to them creating tunes that were cheesy!

I could be contentious now listing these bands/acts!!

[boogyjuice]

What i actually feel is that the disco-sound has been (kinda/sorta) inherited by the current club/dance/garage/house-scene , especially in Europe .
The French DJ-producer Bob Sinclair mixes the classic sound in some of his productions . He even released a project as a tribute to Cerrone .
Also , i think that Jamiroquai has used the disco-feel in his releases to some degree .
So far , the millennium has been an era where lots of classic sounds have been recycled/sampled in many recordings , so i believe that disco has not become totally extinct and might catch the attention of some listeners from newer generations . Even a few years back there was the release of a trio with that track called "Crying Out the Discotheque" ( or something like that ) , which contained the sample of "Spacer" by Sheila B. & The Devotion .
Only problem that happens sometimes is that even though a new track has a classic sample , it is not always recognised by new listeners , mainly because many of them don't collect the physical product anymore ( vinyl or cd ) , besides that some might be fickle , or simply don't even care who recorded the original ...
... that's a thing for the hardcore-collectors ( i guess )