[gmku]

Yeah, it's hard to explain. One of my best friends back then was a disco maniac. I was a complete rocker. It was a gut-level thing. If you were a rocker, you were nauseated by disco. It had to do a lot with the values disco represented to the rocker--everything the rocker opposed was embodied in disco. Disco was about riches, about upward mobility, about trodding on the downtrodden. Rock was egalitarian, about celebrating the poor and the downtrodden.

You know, if you went to a disco, you had to dress up. You had to put on polyester and wear platform shoes and look "good." If you went to a rock club, you wore your ratty jeans and fruit of the loom t-shirt.

But that's all debatable, because disco grew out of the ghetto and out of gay culture. So... But when it became a white kids thing, it became something else...

But what bother me most, as a music lover, was that I always had the sense that kids into disco really were not into music all that much. They were into dancing, but they didn't have much in the way of a record collection. They certainly didn't know much about the traditions disco grew out of, either--nothing about jazz or old motown. At least not the kids I knew.