Songs That Changed Music: Chic - Good Times

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Disco may have been the hottest sound of the late seventies, but in the summer of 1979, it was facing a powerful backlash. In the midst of this tension, one of the genre’s most innovative groups, CHIC, released “Good Times” – an exuberantly joyful song which would prove that dance music could be creative, complex, brilliantly produced, and incredibly funky. While the song may not have been able to save disco, it undeniably shaped the future of popular music for the next decade and beyond. Creative artists continually looked to CHIC’s track for inspiration, influencing the development of New Wave, and Hip Hop, and leading it to become one of the most sampled, inspiring, and important tracks in popular music history.

The single “Good Times” was released on June 4, 1979 – almost two months before the release of their third album. It hit the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 on August 18, 1979 and was the best selling single of Atlantic’s history up until that point. But more than being a commercially successive, massive hit, ”Good Times” revolutionized the way people listened to music in 1979.

Despite its immense popularity, disco was experiencing a massive pushback by rock fans, whose rallying cry of “disco sucks” dominated the summer. Disco Demolition Night on July 12, 1979, at a White Socks game provides a powerful example of this sentiment, starting out as a gimmicky attempt to boost attendance by offering audiences a chance to burn disco records during the break between a double-header baseball game. The event resulted in a massive riot, when tens of thousands of rock fans showed up – many without tickets – to celebrate their distaste for disco music. In the midst of this tension, Chic pushed forward capturing the attention of some of rock and popular music’s biggest artists.

In the height of the backlash against Disco, they proved that dance music could be innovative, exciting, funk….and lots of fun. After its release, major rock artists like Queen, David Bowie, and the newly emerging punk-inspired New Wave artists like Blondie, were inspired to bring dance-centered grooves into their own songs. The song remains one of the most sampled songs in music history and an inspiration for the generations of musicians who followed.

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