We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we’ve delved into.
The hit rap duo Kris Kross wore their trousers backwards, in the Nineties, and I wore my trousers backwards to a school disco. It led to some bullying.
I didn’t really like the ’80s, to be honest with you. There was some good music that came out, but it went a bit disco for me.
One disco, one soft ball game, one lost love, one gay pride rally at a time.
That time, making ‘Disco Pigs,’ was kind of the most important period of my life. The people I met there remain my closest friends.
There is something I don’t get about the party scene in Delhi and Gurgaon, especially in Gurgaon. Why do people dress up so much when they go out to the nightclub or disco here?
In both pop and disco, the meaning of the lyrics is not too important. I have nothing I feel I particularly want to say.
I became obsessed with Simian Mobile Disco’s music and poorly attempted to make my own techno music.
I never really did any disco dancing.
I didn’t live in the world of disco or the world of the Eagles.
Gay culture is in a coming-out process of its own. From out of the closets in the ’60s, the culture moved onto the disco floors of the ’70s and through the hospital wards of the ’80s and onwards to the streets.
The music industry isn’t converging toward dance music. Dance music is dance music. It’s been around since disco – and way before disco. But there’s different versions of dance music.
That big hit ‘Get Lucky’ is a disco song – not only the melody and the whole concept, but we had one of the great disco guys and one of the best guitarists ever, Nile Rodgers, to play on it. So that’s great disco, but a modern disco, because it has great vocoders and synthesizers.
Disco does work better with black artists or players. They just feel it more.
On ‘Overpowered,’ there was a nostalgia for disco and early house music. But I’m a modernist and futurist as well. I do believe – and this is going to sound really pretentious, I know – that humanity will figure it out, so I’m optimistic about the future.
I used to bodyguard for some celebrities and other people, and when I wasn’t doing that, I used to work at a disco as a doorman or a bouncer.
Not to be rude to my sisters, but I don’t listen to drag music. I listen to everything from punk to Italo disco to Appalachian country music, but I don’t know what their records sound like. I hardly listen to my own records. I’m like Cher!
The artist I wanna be like is Michael Jackson. I’ll get the house with the roller coaster and the rides and a disco, and I’ll invite all my friends and just stay at home.
The disco sound, you must see, is not art or anything so serious.
My family is still in Los Angeles. We listened to all sorts of music: Mexican music, oldies, soul, disco and rock & roll. I was surrounded by music.
Disco was brand new then and there were a few jocks that had monstrous sound systems but they wouldn’t dare play this kind of music. They would never play a record where only two minutes of the song was all it was worth. They wouldn’t buy those types of records.
People are embarrassed by disco, but I love it.
I created ‘Disco Abs’ so you could have as much fun getting in shape as I do.
I didn’t really feel like a girly girl. I didn’t want to wear boob tubes and flared trousers and disco clothes. Then when punk came along it was like, ‘Oh great, I can wear ripped jeans and manky t-shirts and flat caps.’ It was just perfect timing for me.
Disco music in the ’70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.
I have this overriding principle that streetwear could end up like disco: that it will be perceived well at the time but doesn’t age well at all.
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