THE RACKET : LIST 24 - Glittering Blazer
My musical taste has evolved quite a bit over the last year and a half as the grey void of quarantine has opened up a lot of time to expand my listening.
And something I’ve learned -
Disco totally rules.
It does. And I say this with surprise only because I grew up in the ‘80s and ‘90s and disco was a joke. Staying Alive was something to laugh about. The open shirts and huge collars and sparkling everything was lame and that’s just how it was.
If you look back though (and I recommend the new Bee Gees documentary How Do I Mend A Broken Heart as a starting point) all of this stems from a pretty toxic culture war in the late ‘70s between kids just trying to get their funk on and a mostly white, mostly male, misogynistic, homophobic, racist group of musically (and otherwise) conservative individuals who thought disco and everything glorious that it brought was eroding “normalcy.”
Well, fuck that. Mainly the disco-haters but also the shame whole generations carried over listening to something as enjoyable as disco and the music it spawned.
I am into disco. I like a beat and I like that beat to be funky. I want attitude and a little grit and just the slightest touch of what it feels like to wear a glittering blazer over nothing but skin. And honestly, I just want a bass line that makes the flat lines at my sides I call "hips" shake because the world can be a grim grim place and who doesn't like a spinning ball that shoots prisms across the floor.
Hopefully, this playlist captures these things.
Isn't all disco. Hell, it isn't even mostly disco, but every song does the trick just the same.
