Disco era women ROCK!!! Women today SUCK!!!

[Rab]

Originally Posted by DiscoMan

Rab the situation with the Paris' "perv" cases has been remarkably quiet this past month. I haven't seen anything in the local rag (T&G). Or heard anything on the street. The silence is deafening. The local DA (John Conte a relic from 1965) has filed a "notorious public nuisance" suit on behalf of Worcester against the owners of the Paris to have it shut down. But again, Worcester has allowed that theatre to operate in like fashion unencumbered for 35 years (and the other dirty movie house in town as well). The case rings hollow and smacks of typical lowdown Worcester politics. Everyone here sees through Worcester's action, but you hear things like "This should have been done decades ago", "It's about time" etc. No one has said a word for 35 years... About the other place: in past years I've seen women give their men blow jobs, ride the meat missile, get gang-banged and be honies for bukkake parties in there. Not a peep is heard.

I never knew a "straight guy who jumped the fence", if you know what I mean.

You never knew a guy who jumped the fence...for a night? Are you kidding? Those very few women that go there are either dragged there, or are working girls. The Art cinema is closed.

[DiscoMan]

Totally!

Queen Latifah has stepped away from Rap with her latest CD and she is very very good in it. My first response when I heard it was "That's Queen Latifah!?". Check out her "Dana Owens" CD I think you'll all be very pleasantly surprised.

Mya also seems to be moving away from rap/hiphop. Here's certainly a Disco Diva for the 21st Century. Whenever I see a publicity photo of Mya I think I am looking at a publicity photo of Donna Summer circa 1978. The girl can sing, dance and she's smart.

Alicia Keyes the newest and youngest hmmmm... I like her. She's certainly talented. Very intelligent. I haven't made up my mind about the quality of her voice yet... Her recent (studio engineered?) pairing with Usher (?) is interesting as a marketing ploy. She hasn't dumped the rap crap yet. I haven't made up my mind yet.

Beyonce - a flash in the pan. No voice. No songwriting ability.
A black Britney Spears IMO.

So...Do Queen Latifah, Mya and Alicia Keyes constitute just the beginning of a female Soul revival? I don't know, but the thought is intrigueing.

Male Soul...dead as Barry White. R. Kelly has something with "Happy People" but that, I think, is an island of hope in a sea of musical turd water.

[DiscoMan]

The Art cinema is closed.

The last time I drove by the place was still open. I'll be in the neighborhood this weekend so I'll check it out.

It used to be The Fine Arts. A fellow I worked with in our day jobs was one of the night projectionists there during the '70s.
There was ALWAYS something bizarre going on in there.

About straight guys jumping the fence - no. They were either in the closet or bi-sexual and in the closet.

[Anonymous]

Beyonce sucks. She is basically her father in a skirt. He calls all of the shots. Alicia cant sing. Today's musical landscape is a joke. Somebody plays a few keys on the piano and all of a sudden they are declared to be a diva. Mya looks like she may be good at playing the meat flute but that is about it. Her music sucks donkey dick.

[efunk_adelic]

Originally Posted by DJ Jimmy M

For Beyonce, maybe in her voice...but her vocals are not original at all..they sound like every other female hip hop/r&b (if ya wanna call it that) singer. Cant tell em all apart listening honestly (not that I would put on any track by them by choice to listen to lol)

Alicia on the other hand does have a little bit of talent as in she actualy plays her music and plays an instrument rather than say..ohh lets take a bowie or change record and loop it in a sampler, sing some new vocals and basicly do karaoke and say..THIS IS MY NEW SONG!!, im a musician :lol:

Its just Alicia cant show off her full talent cause kids today wouldnt apreciate it.

Jimmy, it's the way the industry has evolved... pretty sad... I guess I should've elaborated a little bit on my choices.

Beyonce' can sing... in fact if anybody saw her on the EMMY's... she sang different kinds of music.. which were themes from movies. she looked and sounded great... AND!!! she didn't have to act like a slutty whore with half her tits hanging out :roll: :lol:

Alicia Keys is at the top of her game... and could also play the piano to go along with her original voice. I've never heard her CD's but, her singles are great.

[discofrank]

Originally Posted by DiscoMan

And then we have RAP!!!!!!!!

How we ever let the music industry shove that shit down our throats is completely beyond my comprehension

this is off the topic , but I have to agree 100%
also, the music industry tries to change the name of the same genre - now its called 'hip-hop' .. all in all.. its still rap!

and still sucks :x

[Anonymous]

Beyonce?

Talented?

LOL

all she is to music is eye candy for all of the young brothers in the hood

[DiscoMan]

Beyonce?

Talented?

LOL

all she is to music is eye candy for all of the young brothers in the hood

I agree completely!

[Anonymous]

MTV has slowly been brainwashing all of the black kids into thinking that chocolate girls are not beautiful and that they should instead aspire to have a lighter skinned straight haired mixed race puerto rican looking type of girl.

So far all of the brainwashing has been working too. Mission accomplished MTV.

The current mindset in the hood is

darker women = poverty

lighter women = success

[DiscoMan]

You're absolutely right about this! For confirmation just compare recent publicity photos of Beyonce and Britney for example (same hair, same makeup etc) and then compare these photos to pics of Diana Ross, Donna Summer, Grace Jones at the height of their careers!

And then we have J-Lo. Sure she's the hottest Latina on the planet but she can't act, she can't sing and she and her handlers continue to bullshit the people into believing she has talent! I'd pay 10 bucks to see her in a porno takin' on 10 or 12 guys but that's about it for me.

[Anonymous]

I agree with the majority of the posts, stating today's music just is not the same; lacking the talent, variety and energy of the disco era. I am 18 and can see this, lol. I do love the clubs that spin house and trance, which in my opinion is most reminiscent of disco in its style and energy. Obviously the vocals and arrangements are nowhere near that of disco; yes the majority is electronic based (hence the entire genre electronica encompassing house and trance), but getting lost in the music on a dance floor with much energy and people and lights spinning above your head is quite a high. There is a fair share of mainstream hip-hop jams that I enjoy dancing too, but nothing touches disco. It is sad that you cannot go out today and just loose yourself in a 10 minute Salsoul infusion of Inner Life's 'Ain't No Mountain...' or other beautiful tracks that just make the crowd smile. When I was at a club last night, the DJ took a break from house and threw in some hip-hop; not to my surprise was another sampled disco track. Immediately when the record dropped I heard the infectious baseline of BT Express's 'Do It ('Till You’re...)' and I smiled and only heard the original song in my head. Some of today's reggae/hip-hop anthems have a more Latin based rhythm that could invoke a few hustle steps and disco partner to partner moments, but your usual fair of hip-hop dancers are the men just standing in one place, with the women shakin her ass in his crotch lol, oy! There is still some hope though, many of the gay clubs are still pumping out a mix of house and disco. The people also have that disco, flamboyant energy that no other clubs have. One of our DJs in a local gay club mixes disco with a house beat, mixes to the original, then maybe to a completely house version of the song. The clothes are still outrageous or lack of by the height of the night, when the temp skyrockets, and your usual drag queens lip sinking to disco divas Grace Jones and Loleatta to Rupaul complete the night. It saddens me to know I'll probably never hear or dance to my favorites from the massive, and growing disco collection I have, in a club today. Despite the fact, every Friday & Saturday night, I leave my house at 10pm and say, 'Going to the disco, be back at 5.' 8)

[GroovinYou]

Oops, forgot to log in, that's me above. :D

GroovinYou

[DISCODISK]

Originally Posted by DiscoMan

I'd pay 10 bucks to see her in a porno takin' on 10 or 12 guys but that's about it for me.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[Anonymous]

And then we have J-Lo.

Dont get me started on that bitch.

I ABSOLUTELY CANNOT STAND HER OR HER MUSIC OR HER MOVIES AND I HATE HER VOICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hate all of the Puerto Rican girls in New York City who are under her spell. Obviously there are all blind to the corporate gimmicks and marketing schemes being fed to them. J LO this and J LO that. Yeah "J LO is rich while your fat ass is still living on 149th Street and Grand Concourse pushing a baby stroller with 10 kids and another on the way" is what I tell them.

Thanks to LOW J they all think they can sing and act now too.

On top of that, now that they have started watching their likeness on television in music videos being worshipped and drooled over by the rappers many of them have started to believe that they are superior over all of the chocolate skinned girls in the hood.

Marketing can have a tremendous effect on people.

Thanks MTV!

:D

[Anonymous]

Some of today's reggae/hip-hop anthems have a more Latin based rhythm that could invoke a few hustle steps and disco partner to partner moments,

Yeah because they stole it from them.

There is still some hope though, many of the gay clubs are still pumping out a mix of house and disco. The people also have that disco, flamboyant energy that no other clubs have. One of our DJs in a local gay club mixes disco with a house beat, mixes to the original, then maybe to a completely house version of the song. The clothes are still outrageous or lack of by the height of the night, when the temp skyrockets, and your usual drag queens lip sinking to disco divas Grace Jones and Loleatta to Rupaul complete the night.

Maybe we all should turn gay then? After all as far as the gays are concerned the party never really ended. The gays seem to be the only ones still having fun.

:(