Gawker Author: Richard Lawson Article Mentions
Author, Richard LawsonMentioned, Joan Rivers Mentioned, Billy Joel Mentioned, Kris Allen Mentioned, Adam Lambert Mentioned, Danny Gokey Mentioned, Lil Rounds Mentioned, Matt Giraud Mentioned, Seven New York Mentioned, Home Night Club
So Disco Night happened on American Idol. Everyone still with us? Ten toes, ten fingers? All right, good. We made it. That wasn't so bad, was it? I mean, it could have been much worse. I mean, what is Disco, really? The anthem of annihilation. The dizzying denouement of America's golden age. Look, everyone! Our clothes are getting uglier and so are our cars and our buildings and no one cares about the small stuff anymore, and cities will soon be shopping malls, so let's just boogie our behinds off and shove drugs up our noses. That's kind of what Disco was! Or is! Or I don't know! This is all to say that Disco music is depressing, even when it's uptempo. There's just something fundamentally tinny and cruel about it. So why do we get a whole...(read more)
... So Disco Night happened on American Idol. Everyone still with us? Ten toes, ten fingers? All right, good. We made it. That wasn't so bad, was it? I mean, it could have been much worse. I mean, what is Disco, really? The anthem of annihilation. The di ...
... falling down an elevator shaft. All gravely shrieking and then a dusty clunk at the end. And Lil Rounds... Oh Lil. How did you hoodwink America so? And how is it possible that you were the best black lady in the whole competition? I just don't believ ...
... song. Wouldn't that be weird? And kind of funny? I want it to happen. Do it, Adam. You Stink The Life of Lilian Rounds: Over. As is Matt Giraud's. Or! Perhaps! Was Danny Gokey shitacular enough to earn a seat on the early bus? Good lord wouldn't th ...
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