#Anyway yeah daft punk collabed with famous black artists does that not invalidate your point???

[joinsideke]

Yeah, like how is it unfair? Were there other black musicians trying to push disco in 2013 that got overshadowed by Daft Punk? And you're really trying to attribute their success to being "cishet white boys" when they're constantly dressed up as robots? Most people don't even know their names, let alone what they look like.

Sometimes things just stop being popular, and sometimes they come back around again.

sometimes i think about how disco music was trashed, hated, reviled, and lobbied against in the 70's, even yielding the famous "disco demolition night" where people just showed up to a sports stadium and destroyed disco records. i think about how it was a genre that was pioneered, dominated by, and celebrated by the black community in america, especially the queer members. so much hatred, so much pushback. i even just watched the 2022 minions movie and one of the punchlines was torturing someone by making them listen to disco constantly. it's that stigmatized yeah.

and then daft punk, two cishet white boys, make a disco record "random access memories" and it becomes one of the best selling albums of all time. idk how fair it all is.