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🎹 Groove and Innovation: How "Just Be Good To Me" and the S.O.S. Band Helped Shape Synth-Funk

The Twelve Inch 177 : Just Be Good To Me (S.O.S. Band)

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Aug 08, 2025
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One question I’ve often asked myself is: why disco? Why did I fall for it, when nearly all my peers were pledging allegiance to rock, usually of the heavy metal variety?

When I got into disco, it wasn’t exactly cool. Quite the opposite. It was seen as overly commercial, and the runaway success of the falsetto-driven Bee Gees had supposedly stripped it of…

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