I loved this podcast from the moment he began this podcast all the way till he ended it. The way he breaks down the music in the 1980’s is so profound. What stands out it how he describes the artists in that era as people who, “think towards risk and rethink their relationship with failure.” This overlaps with the marginalization of Disco music. I find it interesting that a whole genre of music was marginalized because of their listeners. This idea of the commodification of disco, and how as a result it was being whitewashed the more mainstream it became is not surprising. I think of rap music when I hear this. 

Another thing I like is how he describes the development of hip hop. When he describes the “percussion, cut up into small, danceable portions for the people in the audience to sweat to” I automatically visualize the birth of hip hop. On top of the descriptive nature to this I love how he says “for the people in the audience to sweat to.” When I think of funk and disco I think of people dancing however when I think of hip hop it’s nice to picture people sweating. It makes me think that this style of music was for more than just dancers but for “sweaters”; as a result of it being for “sweaters” it was meant that hip hop automatically became for everybody.