Who started the disco/80's trend

[gagzus 15,878]

2 hours ago, FentyGa said:

but it’s not always trendy and successful on the charts the way it is now lol

Disco isn’t alive even now on the charts tbh, the last actually disco song that charted was Get Lucky by Daft Punk. The current phase of electro-pop with funk and R&B influences came around technically from Calvin Harris in 2017 or whenever he releases his last album again and the whole 1980s dance and electronic pop sounds have been around since Gaga revived them in her early days, she’s also credited for reintroducing Four On The Floor to mainstream pop music for the first time in decades too.

Also to the OP, can we not use this lowkey racist phrasing in the poll.

[RodeckDanny 2,450]

The Weeknd and Dua are more funk influenced, than disco. 

And honestly it's SUCH good pop. I love Charlie Puth, the New Dua, The Weeknd, Enigma, MIdnight Sky...

[27monster27 13,126]

It has roots in Confessions on a Dance Floor and Kylie Minogue's work in the early 2000's.

[FentyGa 14,340]

20 minutes ago, gagzus said:

Disco isn’t alive even now on the charts tbh, the last actually disco song that charted was Get Lucky by Daft Punk. The current phase of electro-pop with funk and R&B influences came around technically from Calvin Harris in 2017 or whenever he releases his last album again and the whole 1980s dance and electronic pop sounds have been around since Gaga revived them in her early days, she’s also credited for reintroducing Four On The Floor to mainstream pop music for the first time in decades too.

Also to the OP, can we not use this lowkey racist phrasing in the poll.

well ofc it’ll never be pure disco, it’ll always be mixed with pop, electropop, whatever, but there’s an undeniable disco sound to Don’t Start Now, Say So, Midnight Sky, and even Rain On Me to an extent

[StrawberryBlond 14,861]

2 hours ago, Red said:

I feel like ever since Daft Punk released RAM it has been slowly increasing to what the situation is now

Finally, someone says the obvious. I'd literally heard no disco beats on the radio until they put out Get Lucky:

Ever since then, so many artists have experimented with disco. It stopped very briefly around 2016 but is coming back again. However, I see a lot of new music getting labelled disco that's clearly not. Having a mild influence is not the same as being full force into a genre.

[Guest]

Well, as of 2019 to now Dua defiantly re-started the trend. For FN she worked with Stuart Price who co-produced COADF with Madonna, i think for the album they wanted to recreate the hype/success however you just can't recreate that flawless album.

[BABYL0N 3,157]

Definitely Abel, since 2015 starting with Can‘t Feel My Face and delivering many other 80‘s and disco inspired songs since then

Dua‘s debut album was full of tropical house and dance tracks 

[Mean Winchester 410]

I always thought 1989 by Taylor Swift is how it all started

[Cookie Tookie 10,546]

Disco and 80s influence has been making appearances in pop music since the 2000s

[Varys 30,891]

47 minutes ago, gagzus said:

Also to the OP, can we not use this lowkey racist phrasing in the poll.

Excuse me?

[God Control 2,181]

4 hours ago, Doot said:

Donna Mother Fcking Summer, that's who. 

Finally somebody mentioned the queen of the disco. I hardly see anyone mention her here. Mr. Music was a criminally underrated bop and so were her classics

[Killa 17,474]

Last dicoish hit single that comes to mind was cake by the ocean

The 80s had an internet resurgence of interest via youtube and synthwave. And the last 3 years these recomendations seem to reach a bigger audience to the point which it matters. 

There were many indie young bands doing 70s funky and disco sounding music plus a lot of 80s into dream pop etc, for at least some 7 years now. 

Like its not thhaaat new. 

I guess even the weekend had his last album mostly 80s. 

And ofc gaga was prob the first mainstream act to really hit on the whole hipster vintage movement and bring an 80s sound and aesthetic. 

 

[Glamourpuss 29,062]

1 hour ago, gagzus said:

Disco isn’t alive even now on the charts tbh, the last actually disco song that charted was Get Lucky by Daft Punk. The current phase of electro-pop with funk and R&B influences came around technically from Calvin Harris in 2017 or whenever he releases his last album again and the whole 1980s dance and electronic pop sounds have been around since Gaga revived them in her early days, she’s also credited for reintroducing Four On The Floor to mainstream pop music for the first time in decades too.

Also to the OP, can we not use this lowkey racist phrasing in the poll.

I don't believe it's racist phrasing. I think the OP is a fan of pop music and doesn't mean to denigrate trap music or the POC artists who create music in that genre, but is celebrating the fact that catchy pop music is making a comeback and taking over the charts again.

[Varys 30,891]

5 minutes ago, Glamourpuss said:

I don't believe it's racist phrasing. I think the OP is a fan of pop music and doesn't mean to denigrate trap music or the POC artists who create music in that genre, but is celebrating the fact that catchy pop music is making a comeback and taking over the charts again.

I dont even hate trap music. I just have had enough of it. Just like i had enough of tropical music in 2016 and had enough of edm in 2013 and enough of timbaland productions in 2008 and will have enough of this disco trend in 2 years @gagzus

[10inch 417]

4 hours ago, 21st Century Karen said:

 

You are absolutely correct