Soulflower

Love, it doesn't matter whether kids or the general public likes Diso music or not. The fact of the matter is, the music industry does not praise or credit the Disco singers and artists for their contributions because they feel Disco is not a serious musical genre. Just because kids don't care about it does not mean Disco artists don't deserve credit for their contributions.


No I do not follow them, why do you ask?

Key

I'm pretty sure you can see them as featured artists on the record they are a part of and sometimes even in the title of the song they are featured in.They tend to always get credit.

Janszoon

Trying to tie this in, ever so slightly, with the topic of the thread...

List of people people in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame whose careers to some extent involved playing disco:

1. ABBA
2. Bee Gees
3. Jackson 5/Michael Jackson
4. The O'Jays
5. Earth Wind & Fire
6. Blondie
7. Donna Summer

List of people people in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame whose careers to some extent involved playing hair metal:

1. Van Halen
2. Guns N' Roses
3. Heart
4. KISS

(Source: List of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

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Soulflower

Do you really want me to list every single rock act in the hall compared to Disco?

I could do it but it would take me a full day's worth simply because 80% of the RHOF consist of Rock acts.

Just saying since you want to get technical.

They snubbed Donna Summer for over a decade until they finally inducted her when she died. Her induction was bittersweet because they only did it because she died.

Janszoon

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is mostly filled with rock acts? Shocking!

Hmmm... and it appears that The Country Hall of Fame is mostly filled with country acts. Curiouser and curiouser! It's almost as if museums created around a certain theme... adhere to that theme.

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Key

And the Disco Hall of Fame is filled with....oh wait, nevermind.

Soulflower

lol


But the Rock Hall of Fame is clearly not specifically a Rock hall because they have inducted numerous of other non Rock acts into the Hall. Why is Disco the most snubbed genre? There are even more Rap acts than Disco in the Hall.

Janszoon

The non-rock acts are people who have influenced rock music, that's why you see blues and R&B artists there, for example, as opposed to, say, modern classical.

Disco isn't the most snubbed genre. I don't see any salsa groups on the list. I don't see any classical musicians. Hell, Miles Davis is the only jazz artist on there. And since you brought up rap, there have only been four rap acts inducted as opposed to the seven (or eight if you count Isaac Hayes) disco acts I mentioned.

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Soulflower

Making Disco music is very different from an actual Disco artist.

Objectively, the only two acts that are Disco artists out of the list you mentioned are The Bee Gee's and Donna Summer.

While these acts might have experimented with Disco in their music,

Michael Jackson is not a disco artist

Earth Wind and Fire are not a disco band and neither are the rest of the acts you mentioned.

Overall, there are more rap acts than disco acts in the hall.

The Bee Gee's and Donna Summer are the only Disco acts in the Hall.

Also, how has Madonna influenced rock music??? She is a cultural pop figure but I don't see how her music has incorporated rock or influenced the progression of the genre.

There are a ton of acts in the Hall that has not influenced rock music. Therefore, other acts should be eligible to be inducted.

Scarlett O'Hara

Seriously this is the most stupidest argument. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame rates ROCK ARTISTS. Duh! Not Disco. How is this so hard to understand?

And Urban, you made a fantastic post making your point that disco is popular and does get recognition! America does not decide what is most popular worldwide, only in America.

Oh and people, if you're going to have an opinion, at least be able to back it up with real facts like others have.

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