I was listening to my iPod this morning and it got me thinking. The theme song to Grease came on, by Frankie Valli. Grease was a movie about teenagers in the 1950's. Frankie Valli was a popular singer in the 1950's. Okay...so far it all makes sense. But, as I was listening to the theme song, I realized that there are heavy disco elements to the song. That's where the logic eludes me. Why not make the theme song more 50's sounding? Why disco? I understand that Grease came out in 1978 and you had to cater to the popular music of the day, but I never noticed the heavy disco elements until this morning. It's weird the things that we let slip by when we aren't paying attention.
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I have the same problem with the movies. The hair and make-up are always what's popular when the film is made (well, except for Quest for Fire.) But I hate seeing colonial women with heavy mascara. I also hate seeing zippers before zippers were invented or used. Nothing like seeing a civil war movie where the heroine's skirts show a visible set of hoops against the fabric (should have been petticoats between) and then turns and shows a zipper.
I always wondered why I didn't like Grease, but now I realize it was the disco.
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