How could Disco remain popular?

In this thread people are labouring under the false impression that Disco is dead. Disco never died. Instead God took Disco, like he took Enoch in the Bible, and it avoided the death that most other music forms have suffered over the ages :)
 
Getting rid of Saturday Night Fever would probably do a lot of good for preventing the backlash against disco. You wouldn't have rock bands and radio stations jumping on the disco bandwagon, and thus, you wouldn't have everyone getting sick of it. At the very least, artists like Madonna and Michael Jackson would probably still be labeled disco instead of dance-pop.

An interesting tidbit that I found on Wikipedia (yeah, sue me) -- disco emerged mainly out of the black and Latino communities of New York and Philadelphia. Now, what other genre of music emerged from New York's black community during the late '70s? Rap music. If disco survives, how (if at all) would this affect the development of rap and hip-hop? Does the commercially successful "glam rap" sound of the 2000s (you know, songs about bling and pimped out cars) emerge twenty years earlier?
 
Another thought, WI a different weather pattern existed on July 12 1979, resulting in the doubleheader between the Chicago White Sox and the Detroit Tigers getting postponed, with the end result no Disco Demolition that night. Or Steve Dahl tries the stunt during halftime at a 1979 Chicago Bears preseason game.
 
Interesting butterfly questions:

if Saturday Night Fever doesn't happen, Travolta's career veers slightly, would he still hit his downturn in the '80's?

If there was no Disco Demolition Night, would this have greatly effected the 1979 baseball season?

If '80's dance music becomes openly named as Disco, would Madonna then become known as the Queen of Disco?

Could there be an influx of European and British Disco music coming into the U.S. in the early '80's?
 
Heh - I need to go back and finish my Plink Lady TL, which would have extended disco's popularity by a few years. :eek:
 
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