I Love a Bunch of Genres

Dancing Queen

ABBA

Arrival

The heat goes on. I’m an idiot though, so rather than go somewhere with air conditioning today, I spent several hours riding my bike.

I write anonymously, and I sort of think of this page as being something separate from my real life, and yet I spend enough time writing here that it always manages to seep into my mind and occupy a larger part of my consciousness than I would expect. It alters my perception.

For example, over the past week and a half, I’ve (not surprisingly) become extra sensitive to the amount of funk and disco music I encounter. If you really look at disco as a genre, its popularity came and went over the course of probably fewer than five years, and I’ve been surprised by just how common this little sliver of late-seventies music remains.

For instance, on my bike ride today, I passed some sort of street fair or festival or something, where a band was playing disco songs for a tiny, disinterested crowd. Uh, yeah, I’ll admit, even I couldn’t be bothered to stop and listen to their rendition of Dancing Queen, and I Love Funk & Disco.

BUT! The incident did give me a way to tell a rambling, directionless anecdote on the Internet. So yay?