{"id":2893,"date":"2019-08-02T17:36:52","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T17:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=2893"},"modified":"2019-08-02T17:36:52","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T17:36:52","slug":"disco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2019\/08\/disco\/","title":{"rendered":"Disco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Disco Sucks movement and its backlash were so toxic, people in the industry \u2013people who were eating off of the record sales coming from dance music- were all afraid to be associated with anything disco, even the word on a small sign above a door. Something about that really enraged me. Until then I believed I was part of a wonderfully elite group who marched to their own beat. I had worked hard to get there. We were free. We all did what we wanted, said what we meant. We were the music business.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>-Nile Rodgers in 1979, after selling millions of Chic records and realizing that that disco sucks thing was way more than a not very funny joke.<\/p>\n<p>From his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nilerodgers.com\/about\/projects\/le-freak-book\">autobiography<\/a>, that I recommend very much. Nicely written and candid. Amazing life.<\/p>\n<p>It is some serious privilege to be able to disrespect something that allows you to live the life you live. It also shows a pretty serious lack of conviction and integrity to \u201cban\u201d a certain kind of music, just because of its association with minorities.<\/p>\n<p>The act of dancing has never ever been the same since those Disco Sucks days. It\u2019s a loss.<\/p>\n<p>The more I read about that moment in time, the less I get it, the more I understand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Disco Sucks movement and its backlash were so toxic, people in the industry \u2013people who were eating off of the record sales coming from dance music- were all afraid to be associated with anything disco, even the word on a small sign above a door. Something about that really enraged me. Until then I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2894,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions\/2894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}