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00:00Someone came to the back of the booth, 1979, and said to me,
00:04they're saying disco is dead, Nikki.
00:06What do you think?
00:07And I said, yeah.
00:09A very popular and very lucrative new business
00:11called Disco.
00:12So in the beginning, Disco was a cool thing
00:15before it became over-commercialized,
00:19watered-down corn ball.
00:21You feel me?
00:22It was on the 12-inch.
00:24Disco 12-inch.
00:26That was kind of like a hell no, too.
00:29Nothing is pure and utopian and fantastic,
00:33but it was certainly as close as I've ever seen.
00:37There's a story behind this and where it came from.
00:43There was this freedom.
00:44You were just in a sea of people moving to the same beat.
00:49I lost my mind.
00:51I was like, what on earth is this?
00:54I lost my mind.
00:55I was like, what on earth is this?
00:59It ramped up faster than you could have ever imagined.
01:02For other people to say, well, we don't like that kind of music
01:07and we don't like those kinds of people.
01:13Let people be who they are.
01:17Even though we're disparate people,
01:19that's what we used to say, power to the people.
01:22And we meant all the people.
01:23And that's what disco gave us.
01:24It gave us power to all the people.
01:28If you could dance.