80's disco music at the Olympics

[MuBetaPsi_Xi]

Is anybody watching the opening ceremomies for the Olympics? Why are 80's disco songs being used as the soundtrack for the March of Countries? Specifically, why did the athletes of Slovakia just march in to The Village People's "YMCA?" Wouldn't you be a little upset if you spent your whle life training to make the Olympics and you had to march out to the tune of cheesy 80's American music?

Also, the Olympics are in Italy and I thought that Europe doesn't like anything American.

[kimmer23]

Is anybody watching the opening ceremomies for the Olympics? Why are 80's disco songs being used as the soundtrack for the March of Countries? Specifically, why did the athletes of Slovakia just march in to The Village People's "YMCA?" Wouldn't you be a little upset if you spent your whle life training to make the Olympics and you had to march out to the tune of cheesy 80's American music?

Also, the Olympics are in Italy and I thought that Europe doesn't like anything American.

I hate to tell you this, but disco is 70's.

[yankeeyosh]

She's got ya there, Mu...Disco was essentially dead by 1980 (and I thought you were Gen 'X' :eek: )

[chicagogirl]

My friends and I thought the same thing. Even the comentator was like, "And I'm sure the Sloviakian athletes really wanted to walk out to YMCA, too."
The whole thing was a bit odd for me. I mean, they have all of this beautiful Italian music to their name and they barely used anyof it!

[MuBetaPsi_Xi]

Well, I didn't grow up on disco music, regardless of the decade from which it came. My parents didn't get cable until I was in college, so I didn't watch MTV when I was a kid. My parents choices of music were the Carpenters (mom was a huge Karen Carpenter fan) and really, really OLD country music (my sisters and I grew up listening to my dad since Tom T. Hall songs in the car, if anybody out there was ever heard of him.)

[yankeeyosh]

Well, I didn't grow up on disco music, regardless of the decade from which it came. My parents didn't get cable until I was in college, so I didn't watch MTV when I was a kid. My parents choices of music were the Carpenters (mom was a huge Karen Carpenter fan) and really, really OLD country music (my sisters and I grew up listening to my dad since Tom T. Hall songs in the car, if anybody out there was ever heard of him.)

Ah, yeah...basically most of what I heard was a lot of adult contemporary...stuff my parents listened to in the car. I didn't even get my music for my own until 1993. So I admit some of the music I listened to as a kid was 80s stuff, if you were ask me something about INXS or Depeche Mode or Duran Duran before say, two years ago, I would have said "WHAT???"

[kimmer23]

I love disco! My parents always liked anything that was upbeat, that you could dance to.

[yankeeyosh]

I love disco! My parents always liked anything that was upbeat, that you could dance to.

Funny thing is I remember loving disco when I was like 3 years old...right as it was going out of style...

[Cole]

It's Italy. Their pop culture is always about 15 years behind.

Anyone else notice that they just happened to be playing "freedom" when the USA came out?

[shinyleaf]

Hah, that's sort of funny. And embarrassing.

I don't get how music in the UK is so far ahead in music, yet [relatively] neighbouring European countries lag so far behind. What's the deal? Is it the English-language barrier?

[shimmer728]

Disco rocks my world.

[MetFanL]

Hah, that's sort of funny. And embarrassing.

I don't get how music in the UK is so far ahead in music, yet [relatively] neighbouring European countries lag so far behind. What's the deal? Is it the English-language barrier?

Can't be that -- they all love Hasselhoff's "Hooked on a Feeling." ;)

What are they going to come out to, though? Rap? Not likely. It probably had to be family friendly. Also, consider the audience. Most people either speak english as a first or second language, right? So, that probably had to be a consideration, too.