KC & The Sunshine Band Questions

[MAR]

thanks for sharing ! The accusation that disco was "gay music" was largely true .

Well, disco certainly was popular in the gay community, and many disco artists were gay, but a lot of them weren't. And straight people sure seemed to like it for a while, too!

I actually consider KCSB's music to be more 'funk' than 'disco'. Their first album [["do it good') was strictly funk/soul/r&b [[if you didn't know any better, you'd think "I'm A Pushover" was a James Brown song) and even on the later albums, the majority of the songs would fall into the funk category [[nothing 'disco' at all about "I Get Lifted" from their 1975 self-titled album). Even a hit like "I'm Your Boogie Man", really couldn't accurately be described as disco.

You have to remember that the term "disco" didn't even exist when KCSB got started. Even KC himself has said that he was confused as to why their music was suddenly slapped with the 'disco' label. Personally, when I think of disco, I think of the songs that were heavy on the strings like Donna Summer's stuff, the Bee Gees later stuff, etc.

KC of course now fully embraces the disco label, since he's basically become an oldies act, milking disco nostalgia for all it's worth.