Saturday Night Fever and the Death of Disco

         Disco was born in the 1970's, when Moog machine made electronic sounds popular. Music transformed from being all traditional instruments to being created by synthesizers and other new sounds. Giorgio Moroder was a prominent figure in the development of disco when he took sounds from all different music genres and created the song "I Feel Love", sung by Donna Summer. This is when Disco took off.

          Because disco was everywhere, anyone believed they could create disco music. This led to the quick downfall of disco. Anything was turned into disco, including Beethoven's 5th symphony and duck noises in the song "Disco Duck". People started to hate the genre because of all the crap that claimed to be disco. Then when Saturday Night Fever came out, it is said that Disco officially died. According to the article, "many of the biggest hit disco singles had come and gone". However, the movie Saturday Night Fever reminded people what real disco was all about. John Travolta's incredible and energetic dancing embodied what was so great about disco in the first place: it was a crowd pleaser. Disco music almost forces you to dance, and that's why it was so popular in the first place. Also without disco music, we would not have house music, which is a huge part of music culture.