This week we spend time to discuss disco, and this whole disco sucks movement that happened during 80's. Disco is popular during the middle 70s. Disco was used as a reaction by New York City's gays as well as blacks, Latinos and heterosexuals against both the domination of rock music and the demonisation of dance music by the counterculture during this period. Women embraced disco as well, and the music eventually expanded to several other popular groups of the time. Though disco had enjoyed several years of popularity, an anti-disco sentiment manifested itself, particularly in America. Many musicians and fans of a variety of rock music styles expressed strong disapproval of disco throughout the height of its popularity. Among these critics, the slogans "disco sucks" was common by the late 1970s and appeared in written form in places ranging from t-shits to graffiti. Opponents of disco said that the music is manufactured, and the lyrics are mean nothing at all.
July 12, 1979 became known as the day disco died, a promotional event with an anti-dico theme, between games at a white Sox doubleheader for disgruntled rock fans. During this event, which involved exploding disco records, the raucous crowd tore out seats and turf in the field and did lots of damage to the stadium. After this event, disco started to retreat from America. However, we can see after 1990, the disco start to resurgence, Madonna continued doing disco music in her 2008 release, "hard candy", but clearly took the homosexual part out of music.
Friday, May 27, 2011
Friday, May 20, 2011
May 20 2011
Talking about Riot Grrrl groups, the first thing comes in to my head is their awful music and untalented singer. Personal, as a foreigner, understand the lyrics in English is already hard enough, and with all other noises that in their music, makes its even harder to understand what they're really singing about. However, as a groups of women whose get lots of influence from Punk rock, I think the way there perform is somehow understandable. As lots of young girls stick together, just like today, lots of girls want to be like Justin Bieber or Lady Gaga, in Riot Grrrl ages, they wish to be like all those punk stars, but sometimes they may just come across the line to much, just like some criticism about that they are too young that they don't even understand about all the rape, sex abuse, or this whole feminism thing. But the truth is, even they're still young, even they still may not understand the whole picture about the world, even they're females, their voice could still be spread out and been heard by others.
However, the way of their performance may sometime be too far from the main stream, which kind of set some negative impact on the whole feminism movement, audiences think that the feminism is exactly like those Riot Grrrls, which simply just some lame noise come together. And society sometimes may just focus too much on talking about the noises that they sing, but not the goal of these movement, which is to get the feminism moving forward.
I think Riot Grrrls realized this problem and later their musics are somehow closer to the mainstream music, and in the same time, it still express their voice. For example the Spice Girls and their "girl power" message. Now I can finally understand their lyric at least.
However, the way of their performance may sometime be too far from the main stream, which kind of set some negative impact on the whole feminism movement, audiences think that the feminism is exactly like those Riot Grrrls, which simply just some lame noise come together. And society sometimes may just focus too much on talking about the noises that they sing, but not the goal of these movement, which is to get the feminism moving forward.
I think Riot Grrrls realized this problem and later their musics are somehow closer to the mainstream music, and in the same time, it still express their voice. For example the Spice Girls and their "girl power" message. Now I can finally understand their lyric at least.
Friday, May 13, 2011
May 13， 2011
There is always a question, "its the Producing company to make the film which miss lead the customers, or there just are all of these demands exist in the market, the company just go and fulfill their customers' need." Its very clear after watch the Deamworld 3 that the producer of this documentary film believes in the MTV producing companies are the bad guy whose only seen the profit and never care about the business ethic. They are the one whose collapsing the people (mostly, teenagers) in this country by constantly showing them naked women with big breasts and nice butt. By doing that the evil MTV producing companies are shifting the social beautiful judgement to more depends on outer beauty rather than inner beauty.
But lets hold on for a second, and think through the logic in this documentary one more time. I think the biggest mistake that this film made is that they misunderstand the present society, the producer of this film believes that now days, everybody's mind is as pure as saint, and we're eagerly need to understand this world by watching music video. The most important thing that the producer of this documentary needs to learn is that normal people watch all these videos are just for fun, there are very few amount of people will watch these video and changing there behavior to fulfill the story that been told in the music video.
It should be admit that now days people talk more and more about outer beauty is not the only judge for women's success, and we also see more and more women been success without a big breasts or nice butt. But in the same time we still need to see there is a huge gap on women's issue between present day and where we want to go.
But lets hold on for a second, and think through the logic in this documentary one more time. I think the biggest mistake that this film made is that they misunderstand the present society, the producer of this film believes that now days, everybody's mind is as pure as saint, and we're eagerly need to understand this world by watching music video. The most important thing that the producer of this documentary needs to learn is that normal people watch all these videos are just for fun, there are very few amount of people will watch these video and changing there behavior to fulfill the story that been told in the music video.
It should be admit that now days people talk more and more about outer beauty is not the only judge for women's success, and we also see more and more women been success without a big breasts or nice butt. But in the same time we still need to see there is a huge gap on women's issue between present day and where we want to go.
Friday, May 6, 2011
May 6, 2011
For this week, we first looked at Patti Smith and the whole punk movement that she was belonged to in the 70's. Compare with the era before her, which is hippies in the 60s, Patti Smith usually dressed in all black, always perform with no or just a little make up, with her strange hair, probably that is another way to show her masculinity. She was one of the most successful musician in the punk era, and also her performance push the whole punk music moving forward. Her music style was a fusion of rock and poetry, and also been called the "Godmother of Punk".
Talk about Punk, CBGB is frequently mentioned by people, founded by Hilly Fristal in 173, it was originally intended to feature its namesake musical styles (Country, Blue Grass, and Blues), but it became a forum of American punk bank like Patti Smith, Mink DeVille, The Dead Boys, The Dictators, The Fleshtones. And in the later years, it become also know for Hardcore punk. Because CBGB's location (Manhattan), it gains huge amount of listeners, I guess thats another reason that Punk could separate so fast with a huge percentage of female fans. For Punk music itself, most of the punk performance don't even need to know how to sing, as we see all of their performance, and also we can see, while if a women is in the band, women usually need to play some kind of instrument to show that they take this seriously, but its still a huge step forward for the women, when the punk rock took off in 1975, women realized that they didn't need to be beautiful, now they can perform on stage and not afraid.
Talk about Punk, CBGB is frequently mentioned by people, founded by Hilly Fristal in 173, it was originally intended to feature its namesake musical styles (Country, Blue Grass, and Blues), but it became a forum of American punk bank like Patti Smith, Mink DeVille, The Dead Boys, The Dictators, The Fleshtones. And in the later years, it become also know for Hardcore punk. Because CBGB's location (Manhattan), it gains huge amount of listeners, I guess thats another reason that Punk could separate so fast with a huge percentage of female fans. For Punk music itself, most of the punk performance don't even need to know how to sing, as we see all of their performance, and also we can see, while if a women is in the band, women usually need to play some kind of instrument to show that they take this seriously, but its still a huge step forward for the women, when the punk rock took off in 1975, women realized that they didn't need to be beautiful, now they can perform on stage and not afraid.
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