Shake Your Groove Thing

Make all the jokes you want about disco, but it is an interesting genre of dance music. It originated in the African American and Hispanic communities in the late 60's and early 70's. Musical influences include funk and soul. And disco influenced today's hip hop and rap. Disco is unique in that it has a steady accented beat played on the bass drum in 4/4 time, with an eighth or a sixteenth note pattern by the cymbals on the off-beat. Unlike rock it usually doesn't have a lead guitar. Best known disco artists include the BeeGee's, Amanda Lear, Donna Summer, and of the course the Jackson's before Michael turned weird. Only in America can a poor black child grow up to be a rich white woman. Saturday Night Fever still holds the record for the best selling sound track of all time. Aren't you impressed by my abilities to use google?

Anyway tonight's IDOL's have their work cut out for them. Let's Get Out and Dance, Rock My Boat, Shake Your Booty. Did the IDOLS's 'get down tonight'? I thought that saving Matt last week was simply a ploy by FOX to stretch this 'worst ever' year out to another week, But tonight they are going to get rid of two contestants. Sometimes there is justice. My choices from worst (let's stop wasting time and get rid of them) to best.

7. Matt - Stayin Alive, well that's the judges fault. He should not have been saved. Matt was right tonight when he sang he's goin nowhere. Except home, finally.

6. Anoot - Dim All the Lights, no energy whatsoever in this song. And say what you want about disco, the songs had energy. Very boring, The lights aren't dimmed, they are totally out.

5. Lil Rounds - I'm Every Woman, too much song for her. She can't even be one woman (herself) let alone every woman. The days are numbered for her.

4. Danny - September, it was OK. But I do disagree with Paula, Danny does not have the sexiest voice ever. Come on Paula, what drugs are you on this year?

3. Allison - Hot Stuff, she's only 16 but she showed her hot stuff tonight. Kind of makes you feel like a dirty old man.

2. Kris - She Works Hard for the Money, he turned one of the best disco songs into a ballad. Very original. And wow is Kris hot! And I don't feel guilty about saying that.

1. Adam - If I Can't Have You, his passion was amazing. Every year I tell the story that the IDOL's job is to tell a story and move me. Adam moved me tonight. And Adam, you can have me whenever you want.

The best two tonight actually changed the disco song into something totally different. If you didn't get enough disco, consider coming up to Capitol Hill on Sunday evenings at the Cuff. Disco is Queen. Some people claim that July 12,1979 was the day that disco died. If that is true, it's as if they dug it up from the grave tonight and tried to bring it back. But in the words of another famous disco song "Enough is Enough".

Until Next Week - Wise OUT