Disco with Donna Summer and the Bad Girls album
Disco: In 1970s, due to dance music was being played in the discotheques by DJs, disco music started to emerge. One of the characteristics of the music has 4x4 bass drum base. Disco was very much of a producer’s genre, where the vocalist was the only musician with major credits. Around 1980s the disco genre had great influence on the beginning of Dance Pop and Contemporary R&B, but the disco genre had stayed as a club music.
Donna Summer claimed her status “queen of disco” after releasing songs like ‘Love To Love You Baby” and “I Feel Love”. These singles already made her a global star. However, she continued the work and with her “Bad Girls” album she brought new influences into the disco sound. Most of the times, she had worked as a trio with Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte. The flow of the production was smooth among them, they could work effectively, because they were in sync. This is how they made the Bad Girls album as well.
Bad Girls: The album’s main song and its title come with a story that had happened with Donna’s friend. At that time ‘working girls’ was on the streets on the streets in the same neighbourhood as Donna’s studio was. Her secretary went out to run some arrands, but the police mistook her for those ‘bad girls’. When Donna heard the story, she could draw inspiration from it to write the song “Bad Girls”. She showed the demo to her producer’s, but they shelved it because it did not align with her style at that time. Some years later, they started to work on the song and other songs as well, to create the Bad Girls album with Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte. After releasing the new version of the song, it became a hit right away.
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