re: #91 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

An Oklahoma Republican politician ran on an anti-Disco platform saying it was “corrupting our youth” for the state Senate (meaning white girls were mixing with ni*CLANGS and gays).

The most overt example was Twisted Sister, where at concerts they used to hang in effigy Barry White while smashing Disco records.

When a club owner in upstate New York explained to guitarist Jay Jay French “you hung a ni*CLANG, they love that around here,” Dee Snider said they couldn’t be racists because they had a Latino member and a Black former drummer. They immediately changed their act to a simulated electric chair executing an effigy of white Disco singer Andrea True.

When a loudmouthed DJ tried to kill disco, the homophobic and racist implications were impossible to ignore (Timeline. February 15, 2018)

(6:18, Andrea True Connection)

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Rolling Stone also called out the overt racism and homophobia of the “Disco Sucks” movement.

I was at the Disco Demolition at Comiskey Park. I well remember WDAI going from rock to Disco. I lived it.

I love rock and I love disco. Both. Love them.

Steve Dahl wasn’t racist (or he was, but that wasn’t why he hated Disco), he lost his job and hated Disco as a result. When WDAI switched formats, it was like they flipped a switch. 11:59 pm, rock. Midnight, disco. Not sure of the actual time but it was that fast.

I met Steve Dahl once. He was an unexpectedly nice guy. Of course i was a white girl so that could matter, but in all the years I listened to him, not once did I get a whiff of racism (or any other phobia/ism). He wasn’t what is called a shock jock, not like Howard Stern or those who came after Stern.

Some years later another station changed formats and it played I Got The Power by C&C Music Factory for 24 hours straight. I listened for hours and I still like that song.