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I thought the Bee-Gees were black americans. Not as much of a false memory since I hardly remember seeing them in my life, only hearing.
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Falukorv posted:I thought the Bee-Gees were black americans. They were brothers just not like that
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Falukorv posted:I thought the Bee-Gees were black americans. The UK and Europe didn’t encounter the same kind of disco backlash as the US. The Bee Gees continued to have hits into the 1980s/90s in the UK (as well as hits written for Dionne Warwick and Diana Ross - it always astounds me when people from the US say they’ve never heard of ‘Chain Reaction’). They were also a pretty inescapable presence on chat shows with their slightly dated charm and were an easy target for parody so I guess they never really left the UK’s cultural conscience. They had a hit with CELINE DION in 1998 which briefly bruised the top of the charts. It didn’t do poo poo in the states!
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knife_of_justice posted:The UK and Europe didn’t encounter the same kind of disco backlash as the US. The Bee Gees continued to have hits into the 1980s/90s in the UK (as well as hits written for Dionne Warwick and Diana Ross - it always astounds me when people from the US say they’ve never heard of ‘Chain Reaction’). They were also a pretty inescapable presence on chat shows with their slightly dated charm and were an easy target for parody so I guess they never really left the UK’s cultural conscience. They had a hit with CELINE DION in 1998 which briefly bruised the top of the charts. It didn’t do poo poo in the states! Not their Celine Dion hit, but You Win Again pretty darn good. It's late 1980s without sounding too tied to that era. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xviuC-0FwQ0 This Is Where I Came In would have done better than 18th in the UK. That said, it was released in 1997. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEOsGpTX4iA
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Disco owned. Was it just because it got overplayed that people started to hate it?
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The best disco song is I Was Made For Lovin You by KISS
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Milo and POTUS posted:Disco owned. Was it just because it got overplayed that people started to hate it? It was racism
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Nov 18, 2023 13:49
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And homophobia
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You can see the shift around when Saturday Night Fever came out, going from great music played at black, Hispanic, and gay discos to poo poo music being played at white discos.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYO3KNdT4-w
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Kosmo Gallion posted:The best disco song is I Was Made For Lovin You by KISS I unironically loved that song when it came out and still do, and I usually hate Kiss. Superman by the Kinks is a good one too.
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Everything by the kinks is good you philistine. I'm making up what you said so I can be angry! That's a big part of why the effect is so prevalent on the internet 
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Grassy Knowles posted:It was racism Goddamnit now I’m getting “Bad Medicine” stuck in my head. Remulak has a new favorite as of 19:30 on Nov 18, 2023 |
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The only cultural artifacts that tend to survive are the best most enduring exemplars of their time so decades later you’re only seeing a relatively few examples that tend to be of a higher caliber than the mountain of crap they were concurrent with. This is especially true prior to the age of mass digital preservation.
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Remulak posted:That was an element, sure, but in the monoculture that used to exist it’s infuriating when all you’re getting is one thing due to the hosed-up way that record companies pushed it nonstop. It took me years to be anything but angry at hair metal, as it was inescapable at a formative time and meant great music I loved wasn’t getting exposure or arena tours and I was too young to go to club shows. There’s also a lot of dilution as the good stuff that started the trend got chocked out by derivatives; in my case I loved Van Halen and some other earlier bands but the cavalcade of poo poo was unstoppable. That isn't what caused the higher than usual amount if backlash
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white people did to disco what we do to every cultural phenomenon we love: we stole it and made it worse and sold it back to the world
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"the backlash to disco was due to racism and homophobia" was a thing people noted and called out even at the time that the backlash was happening! that doesn't mean that every single person who has ever failed to vibe to a disco song is a racist homophobe, so nobody needs to defend it!
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I think it's about time for Sinbad to actually make a movie where he plays a genie. Call it Shazaam 2.
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knife_of_justice posted:Quote is not edit… I think we've all fallen victim to this particular Mandela effect
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Warm Fish Salad posted:There was a cornucopia in the Fruit of The Loom logo and I will die on this hill. Yup
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Captain Hygiene posted:The word "restauranteur" does not actually have an n in it Crossposting myself because this is the first time I've had that unsettling effect in a while where I was certain about something completely wrong 
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quote:[Restaurateur] is also spelled restauranteur (with an n), but this is considered erroneous by some, and the form restaurateur (without the n) is preferred in formal writing, and especially in the United Kingdom. Not really a Mandela effect so much as people being bitchy and pedantic about spelling.
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Doctor Bishop posted:Not really a Mandela effect so much as people being bitchy and pedantic about spelling. Uh, people speaking correctly is not bitchy nor pedantic about anything. It's about being respectful to those around you.
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credburn posted:Uh, people speaking correctly is not bitchy nor pedantic about anything. You should use 'neither' there.
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Tunicate posted:You should use 'neither' there. Thank you very much.
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Doctor Bishop posted:Not really a Mandela effect so much as people being bitchy and pedantic about spelling. It was more that I saw the accepted correct spelling and feel like I've never seen it before, it was in a crossword puzzle and I had to look it up because I thought they were doing it incorrectly as a pun on "auteur". I must've seen it before at some point, maybe enough people have used the version with an n that I subconsciously added it in every time.
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Warm Fish Salad posted:There was a cornucopia in the Fruit of The Loom logo and I will die on this hill. https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/19dpz3x/the_fruit_of_the_loom_cornucopia_logo_absolutely/  Well what the Hell do we do now?
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Obviously there's multiple timelines
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Doctor Bishop posted:Just remembered this really odd false memory that I have about this one episode of Shining Time Station (the PBS show that was the original vehicle for Thomas the Tank Engine in the US) where Mr. Conductor's evil twin gets brought to life and goes on a rampage. I have a really clear memory of an episode of The Raccoons involving a soapbox derby where one of the pigs claims to be dying of cancer in order to gain sympathy so they can win. At the age I watched The Raccoons, I'm not sure how cogent I would have been of the idea of dying of cancer, but I can't find any reference to this episode and also that's a loving heavy topic!
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I am genuinely confused why so many of us remember the Fruit of the Loom logo having a cornucopia, specifically exactly like that. Always with the opening facing to the left, and that little curly bit on the end. I assume the two most likely answers are bootlegs we somehow all saw (even though I wouldn't know from where?) that did have it. Or another company/logo that was very similar that also had it.  I'm not sure where I would have seen a food/produce distribution company's logo, and it's going the "wrong" way, but that is the absolute closest of the other options I've seen.
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I'm a Boston local, see Katsiroubas Bros trucks around all the time, and I've never seen that logo.
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Doctor Bishop posted:Not really a Mandela effect so much as people being bitchy and pedantic about spelling. As it turns out, all French chefs are Ratatouille'd, so they've always been restaurats. Edit: that's why they invented the hats in the first place. Beachcomber has a new favorite as of 21:27 on Jan 23, 2024 |
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Milo and POTUS posted:Obviously there's multiple timelines Well there were, at least some of them are clearly converging now
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DrBouvenstein posted:I am genuinely confused why so many of us remember the Fruit of the Loom logo having a cornucopia, specifically exactly like that. Always with the opening facing to the left, and that little curly bit on the end. I'm English and I distinctly remember seeing an advert on Saturday Morning TV when I was around 10 or 11, "Life, Liberty, and Fruit of the Loom" went the jingle. The Logo appears on screen, and I wonder what the snail shell thing on it was. I had no idea what a Cornucopia was beyond something America did on Christmas. So it must have existed!
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Some people have suggested that there was a Fruit of the Loom knock-off brand that used a cornucopia in its logo, and that was used in a lot of promotional t-shirts and sports team jerseys and therefore would have been seen by a lot of people. I don't know if there's any actual evidence for this. edit: I remember the opening facing to the right I think BooDooBoo posted:I'm English and I distinctly remember seeing an advert on Saturday Morning TV when I was around 10 or 11, "Life, Liberty, and Fruit of the Loom" went the jingle. I don't know what to tell you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GucTD4Idbdg AKA Pseudonym has a new favorite as of 23:05 on Jan 23, 2024 |
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I wish I had the strength to believe in the mandela effect instead of just thinking about my rotting mush of a brain every time someone points out something that isn't as remembered. Oh yes, you're right, it was always like that. I guess I do have absolute dogshit between my ears.
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I remember looking at a fruit of the loom logo after watching Hunger Games like 7 years ago and going 'Oh hey, the cornucopia in the show had a bunch of food like this does. That was why it was called that.' and moved on Now I'm in a different timeline but everything is the same I guess so w/e
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