Why is a song about Rasputin going viral on TikTok? But what is the “Rasputin” song? And where did it come from? Here’s everything you need to know about TikTok’s new favorite sound. Despite its ...
Disco is a music genre and a subculture born out of a dance floor and pioneered by Black musicians, DJs and producers in the 1970s and early 1980s. The word disco comes from the Italian discoteca, ...
If you lived the relatively brief era when it ruled the world in the late 1970s, it’s hard to remain unbiased about disco. For some, it was the soundtrack of their coming-of-age years. Others ran as ...
Cher released songs in many genres, including classic rock, pop, folk, and hair metal. However, a disco track from many years after disco supposedly died remains her best song. It only works because ...
Last week, Billboard published a list of the top disco songs of all time, as chosen by one of the genre’s great architects, producer/songwriter/performer Giorgio Moroder. Moroder is probably best ...
The Beatles made songs in many different genres but disco was not one of them. Despite this, John Lennon compared one of the songs from The White Album to disco music. Interestingly, two members of ...
Beyoncé’s sample of Donna Summer on “Summer Renaissance” won’t just call back to disco’s greatest — it’ll also call back to a time Beyoncé interpolated the “Last Dance” singer. Though “Naughty Girl” ...