Hey! ABBA is pretty f*cking cool. Their music has got some great pop
arrangements and I wouldn't even consider them to be disco in the first
place!
Would you call Madonna a house musician? She's had house remixes of her
tracks and she's had some loose ties with the NY disco scene during the 80s
but she's no house singer. Just because ABBA got played on the mainstream
dancefloors, VH-1 lumps them into their disco TV special (hypothetically),
they wore bell-bottom jump suits (what musician didn't back then?), and
they sang under a disco ball DOES NOT make them disco! Hell, Pink Floyd
sings under a giant disco ball now.
OK so Madonna may not be the best comparison...
MEK
"Brendan Nelson"
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| I hear the same stuff about techno except people think back
| to 2 Unlimited, and Moby.
Exactly - in fact, Moby is still often referred to as a "techno artist"
by a lot of journalists. Popular perceptions of what "techno music"
actually is are probably further off the mark than perceptions of
"disco", in fact - when your average person thinks of disco, they think
of "bad" disco (ABBA & co), while an average person thinking of techno
doesn't even think of "bad" techno. Instead, they think of euro-pop,
trance, Moby, and stuff like that - stuff that doesn't fit the
definition of "techno" even in the broadest sense of the word.
Brendan
