Disco Demolition Night
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Disco Demolition Night
Niall Rogers who's in the band Chic, you know, who does that song freak out? Uh-huh. He says he was watching the footage of it and looking at the newspapers the next day and he says it felt to us like a Nazi book burning. And also it was not a coincidence that they use the term sucks. That term like it's been completely normalized now and you can say it on TV. But at the time it was much more of a transitive verb than it is now. Like people understood it as having a homophobic connotation to say that something sucks in 1979.
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