02/10/2025
If you’re not aware of the infamous Disco Sucks! Campaign from the late 70s, I strongly encourage you to research Disco Demolition Night. An event during a major league baseball game in Chicago in 1979, people could get in for just 98 cents if they bought a disco record to be blown up on the field at the mid-way point. It ended in a riot, and many of the records that were brought to be destroyed were not specifically disco music, but black music in general.
So many of the all-time classics from our scene are about peace and unity - CeCe Rogers’ Someday, Joe Smooth’s Promised Land, Inner City’s Pennies From Heaven to name a few - and yet it feels like after all these years, we still haven’t figured it out. The thing with anger and division is that it is very rarely productive, just destructive. Dance music simply wouldn’t exist as we know it without marginalised communities and the concept of inclusive, positive and progressive environments.
There have been people who seek to divide us and turn us on each other for their own gain for decades, and unfortunately there probably always will be. It’s up to us to decide whether we let them or not. I’m choosing kindness and love, and I hope you do, too. Have a wonderful day, everyone! 💜
