Originally Posted by
BobbyC
Sup_fan I must take issue with your comment that mid western white guys were threatened by music by gays and blacks. That is not how i remember it at all. While it is true that the mid west was mostly white rock. When disco first got popular, almost nobody had a problem with it. People loved going to clubs and Sat Night Fever was the biggest movie soundtrack in the world. In about a two year period, which is really brief when you think about it, suddenly EVERYTHING was disco. It was too much. The music went so downhill, so quickly, with songs like Funky Town. Suddenly this underground cool music was formulaic, cold and repetitive. On top of that, people like me who loved slightly older black artists like Labelle and Earth Wind and Fire, weren't hearing these groups anymore. They tried to make disco records but most bombed. The Motown groups were mostly over. On top of all these things, the rock music that mid western guys loved vanished! Suddenly their heroes like Rod Stewart and The Stones were making thumper music and everybody was like what in the hell happened? That's when the backlash started. It was too much, too fast. And gay people never even entered the mix. Back then the subject was so taboo, so dirty, that people pretended that gay men didn't exist--they knew almost nothing about gay life and would prefer to know less. I remember it very clearly.