PreTeena by Allison Barrows for April 15, 2022

There was some excellent ‘post-punk’ and synth-heavy ‘proto-new-wave’ starting from 1978, or so .. mostly coming from the UK, though.

A lot of that stuff seeded the early ‘Mtv’ lineup, which helped those styles to explode in 1981.

and thank goodness .. I wasn’t ever fond of disco, myself!

Hated Disco.

I LOVED Disco! When I was 15 there was a disco in my city just for teens called Studio C. My best friend & I went every single week. They had a bar where you could get sodas and “Near Beer” (early non-alcoholic beer…never touched the stuff, myself). The dance floor wasn’t huge but we managed, and the DJ was great. This was around 1979-1980.

my wife and i took disco dance lessons, and i have to say, i was a pretty good dancer

Disco still sucks.

People still dance and twirl to the music of the Grateful Dead.

Yes, the hippie era was passé by the 1980s. But some obviously didn’t get the memo, judging by the lack of grooming that has become common today. A lot of pro athletes and celebrities look like they stepped out of a time machine from the Woodstock Festival with their hippie hair and beards. Then the general public feels the need to emulate this because some Hollywood star does it.

I wish people would take some pride in their appearances again.

Disco was garbage, too. A cheap fad for the shallow trend-chasers who wanted imitate the celebrities who frequented Studio 54 in NYC.

It still rears its ugly head occasionally even though it’s been dead since 1980. It needs to be permanently buried.

Go to any fitness class … disco is alive and well there, thank you very much!

People think disco died… it didn’t. It just synthesized and became “dance music”