Page 2-Tuesday, October 16, 1979-The Michigan Daily The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, Oct Just can't stop that boogie-oogie-o OLYMPUS (Continued from Page 16) established disco stars seem to be in a rut. More and more, new albums by popular groups like Chic and the Village People are sounding like mere restructurings of past releases. We could not leave the subject of disco-overkill without mentioning the queen of disco herself, Donna Summer. As many may know, Summer rocketed to success on the sales of a song called "Love-to-Love-You Baby," which featured orgiastic gasps and moans dubbed over a hot disco beat. Although a representative for Susan Muneo Management (Summer's manager) at- tributed Summer's initial success to the record's musical impact, it is clear that sexual innuendo did most of the work. Summer's latest album, "Bad Girls,":is a prime example of how sensationalism sells, and sells, and sells. "Bad Girls" is a mediocre collection of songs that almost totally rely on formerly proven techniques. And yet the album is without a doubt the biggest seller for Casablanca records to date. "Bad Girls" is doing swift business because it features a formulaic ap- proach used in past Summer albums, namely, telling a somewhat campy story through songs and complemen- ting it with a slick, romanticized cover that ties in with the approach. "Once Upon a Time" was Summer's 1977 fan- tasy-salute to urban working girls. "Bad Girls" is her 1979 salute to prostitution. The cover features a seductive Donna, decked out in slutty garb, alternately standing under lam- pposts, talking with 'johns,' and coun- ting wads of $50 bills. Whereas "Once Upon a Time" was charmingly fresh, "Bad Girls" is tasteless exploitation marketed with a cheap-shot shock-value approach. The songs, including "Hot Stuff" and "Bad Girls" are pedestrian, with sur- prisingly poor back-up material from German synthesizer geniuses Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte. Only one cut, the poignant "Sunset People" comes close to living up to Summer's potential. Her representative said that Donna saw the prostitute gimmick of the album as a bitter commentary on American morals. That the record is selling is a bitter commentary on American gullibility. GIVEN ALL this substandard fare, perhaps it is possible to conclude that disco still sells because people still want to boogie. This is especially true in heavily populated urban areas, where disco and discotheques do best. Cer- tainly, Studio 54 and major chain discos like Regines, Xenon, and Mingles have helped create an ongoing urban disco- culture that continues to pay - eviden- ced by Studio 54's recent $2 million dollar facelift and expansion. The local disco scene in Ann Arbor has grown, with the opening of the slightly tacky Bananas and Mingles discos in the past year, joining that much-loved haunt, The Rubaiyat, where bad taste is a way of life (and fun to boot), for straights and gays. Many are still mourning the. loss of Don Cisco's, but overall, for a mid-west college town, the A disco scene has more to offer than could be expected. 0' a predomin munity, ant having a di explain why Arbor accou records sol major recoi possibly coi disco is a ph ban areas lik Perhaps o the saturati be dropped production r prefer Tim "do the roclk p Join the electronic camera age. Forget the fiddling and worrying that rob photography of so much pleasure-and for too many fine pictures. But don't forget the performance and versatility that every professional demands.I That's the invitdtion of the Olympus OM-10. 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