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Some commentary: My deal is that I don't like much folk, rock and punk music which is often more political than dance, disco, pop and electronic music. These latter genres have tended more towards the apolitical. An exception in the latter category is electronic-industrial music, which has some similarities to punk. But the fact the pop and dance is generally more apolitical has occasionally lead to backlashes against it for being too at ease with the establishment. The "Disco Sucks" campaign had an element to this in the late 1970s among the genre's critics. But this is also unfair, I think. Pop and dance has often been in the crosshairs of social conservatives when these genres pushed racial and sexual boundaries. Some music critics have also asserted--with good evidence--that the backlash to disco was partly a reaction by white heterosexual punks and rockers to a cultural movement associated with blacks and gays. Pushing disco back into the closet was a means of reasserting white heterosexual cultural supremacy. This wasn't the entire reason for the backlash of course, the genre also helped eat itself, but the anti-disco mood did take on undeniably racist and homophobic forms. For exhibit below, a cartoon from a 1979 issue of Punk magazine in which disco fans are derided as "faggots." http://www.punkmagazine.com/vault/back_issues/16/16index.html        Point being, it's time for some loving disco. A mid-2000s commentary on Britain and America's "special relationship": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dfdlG_5wuc This song, a *massive* hit in France and Quebec in 1991, tapped into Mitterrand-era ennui: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUQZZW2GrAA Not exactly pop but the Pet Shop Boys composed a soundtrack for Sergei Eisenstein's silent film The Battleship Potemkin (can you see I like the Pet Shop Boys?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d2mW3qGy58 Edit: gently caress it. One more because I love Mylene Farmer. Another thing about pop is that it's usually more innovative in the visuals than it is with the sound, and it's where more of the political commentary goes on. This video is another tribute to Eisenstein and has lots of blood, violence, Lenin, revolution, Marx and creepy Tsarist witches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlTco8Yg1cY BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 07:10 on Dec 5, 2013 |
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Yeah industrial music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZCPrnmI4d4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxsYrfKf_pc ^ This latter was pretty badly misconstrued. "The Mussolini" is a dance you do while kicking Mussolini's corpse.
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