Disco and EDM are almost the same thing: Electronic music, remixes of popular songs, easy to dance to, heavy base, and a culture of openness regarding style and sexuality. It just surprises, and intrigues me, that one genre died and the other thrived when they are basically the same thing. The only thing that separates the death of disco from the life of EDM is the existence of new and mainstream rock in the 70s. Today, the mainstream genre is rap, which doesn’t compete with EDM. No one in the rap community has a desire to kill EDM, or any genre for that matter. In the 1970s, disco was white-hot. It’s popularity was huge and it became extremely hegemonic in a short amount of time. Rock music felt threatened by this popularity and they didn’t find this music to be authentic. A massive “disco sucks” movement erupted from rock fans and it even led a DJ to blow up thousands of disco records which were given to him by patrons of a baseball game. EDM doesn’t have the same amount of hatred towards it as disco did because there is no mainstream popular rock to oppose it.