“Of course, neither way of looking at things is new. Disco did emerge from an underground, and plenty of popular disco was terrible. Nevertheless, too often this dichotomy leads to a version of that old indie-rock attitude: if it’s popular, it isn’t “real.” Preferring disco-the-music to disco-the-epoch is one thing. Pretending disco-the-epoch doesn’t exist, or doesn’t count, is another. “People don’t believe me when I tell them how impossible it was to get non-bellbottom pants in 1977!” comics artist Daniel Clowes said in a 1999 interview, republished last year in a collection edited by Ken Parille and Isaac Cates. “It was literally impossible. I had to have them made, get girls to sew them for me. You can’t imagine how that would be your only choice.”
Michaelangelo Matos in a review of A Complete Introduction To Disco: 1970-1980
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