LOL... never cared much for the hair bands either (cept for Bon Jovi back in the day) however, I never understood what people hated about disco so much. There are some tunes that really make ya feel like dancing:)It was the “dance” music back in those days. I was too young to know what all the negativity was about.
The Bee Gees, Brick, Heatwave, The Commodores and the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack will be remembered and and played long after Katy Perry and her ilk are forgotten. Anyone heard Gwen Stefani lately aside from lipstick commercials?
People hated disco for the same reason they hate hip hop: it wasn’t “authentic” because it was created for DJs and not for sweaty arena performances, and because it tore up the charts and relegated most of the rock bands of the time to commercial irrelevance.
I don’t get the hate of the hair bands. Some were pretty bad, but most of them at least were good instrumentalists and had a stage presence. Warrant was pretty good, but the “late” hair bands were generally less talented than the “early” ones like Motley Crue, Ratt, and Dokken.