History Main / Disco

** 1975 - ''Music/YoungAmericans''

* The soundtrack for]] ''Film/SaturdayNightFever''

** 1979 - ''Music/BadGirls''

Attacked on all sides and with a powerful image against it, disco was fading fast and completely dead by early 1981, and with it the fashions and styles related to or heavily associated with it (such as flared trousers, open necked dress shirts, platform shoes). For the rest of 1980s, admitting that you liked disco may as well have been admitting to cannibalism. While dance artists like Music/{{Madonna}} and Music/JanetJackson continued to take influence from it and it also had an influence on early HipHop (which used disco samples) and on HouseMusic (also a club-based, DJ-focused dance music), whatever remaining fandom the genre itself still had was restricted to gay clubs, which marginalized it even further. Disco would start to reemerge (or at least, come to the surface for fresh air) during [[TheNineties 1990s]]' wave of nostalgia for the 1970s and its backlash against all things 1980s, mainly in the form of sampling for rap and dance songs (it didn't hurt that most popular dance music, particularly House and its offshoots, can trace its lineage straight back to disco, with some of the same [=DJs=] and producers being involved). Still, during this same time, ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' had a character named [[DiscoDan Disco Stu]] who was used almost purely for comic relief, showing that the genre was still a ways away from returning to public acceptance.

* Music/{{Blondie}}'s biggest hits [[Music/ParallelLines "Heart of Glass"]] and [[Film/AmericanGigolo "Call Me"]] were in this style, although both were a case of BlackSheepHit

Then, even before TheEighties officially started, [[ItsPopularNowItSucks a backlash emerged]]. Disco's hip and urban image had little appeal to people [[CountryMusic who were neither]], while many fans of white pop and black funk hated disco's fusion of their preferred styles. To some, the persistent dancebeats seemed [[BrokenRecord overly repetitive]]; others resented Disco's near total domination of the airwaves. Radio stations started advertising "[[Music/TheBeeGees Bee Gees]] free weekends." The [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams Chicago White Sox]] hosted a "Disco Demolition Night" promotion that [[GoneHorriblyRight got so out of hand that it turned into a riot]]. It got so bad that even rock artists who were influenced by disco, like Music/RodStewart, were attacked and parodied.

** 1979 - ''Music/{{Dynasty}}''

'''Disco''' is the music that defined the late [[TheSeventies 1970s]] and, for 25 years after, [[DiscoSucks was the genre everyone loved to hate]].