AI Report Card Top 7 (Again): Tuesday Night Fever

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“DISCO IS DEAD!!” Okay, not really. Disco never died, it merely morphed into the New Wave of the early 80s and transgressed into both Hip Hop and what we call “Club Music” today. The now-classic “Saturday Night Fever” saturation of the Pop music landscape begot the backlash, but the “Disco Sucks” and “Death To Disco” sloganeering was more derived from the homophobia and racism of late 70s Rock machinations who feared the testosterone levels in mainstream mass media would be lowered to the new standard of the Village People.

History dictates that this never happened, of course, but Disco-as-moniker suffered for years before its resurgence of respect less than a decade after its ‘official’ demise. Eventually, after such irreverent hostilities subsided, everyone was proud to banner their Disco lapel.

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