🎹 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)

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 any lingering sense of masculinity. And then there was Sylvester… and the whole gay connection, which, in our teenage minds, was definitely not something to embrace. 😄

So why did I love it anyway?

Part of it, no doubt, was that I was a contrarian kid. But the bigger reason was creativity. I’ve never been a passive music listener. From the moment I could make my own choices, (my mother might argue that moment came at birth 😁) I didn’t just want to consume the things I loved, I wanted to do something with them.