By the time disco surfaced in the mainstream, it had been reduced to a syncopated, machine-generated beat, ready-made for novelty songs; to those who didn't experience it in its early days, disco seemed faddish, artificial, and gimmicky, because that's how the music industry regarded it.
Then the band started thumping the disco beat of "Ready for the Good Times," and Shakira was back to strutting and shaking, tucking her aspirations behind the pleasures of pop.
In addition, Riley just finished remixing a song for Whitney Houston's "Preacher's Wife" soundtrack, one that he transformed from a gospel song into a beat-basher ready for the dance floor.
"They came here to beat us and were ready for the battle but my boys were ready for them as well.
As long as you're feeling that beat you'll be ready for anything.
These electronica are the modern manifestations of musical progress: Jetsons-like technology combined with utterly simplistic interfaces in which the work has been loaded, beats and samples arranged, ready for someone to wave his finger through a beam of light.
I lost to Gaultier in Hong Kong and Bellevue, but in Seattle I had a result I wasn't sure I was ready for, beating world No1 El Shorbagy in the last 14 and then No4 seed Miguel Ángel Rodríguez to make the semi-finals.
Eventually, we'll fall for the right beating heart and probably when we're nowhere near ready... nowhere near ready for its beats to be memorized in our every heartbeat.
Neil was all too aware that his team were not good enough to beat a side who looked ready for the taking.
And get ready for the "BEAT L.A". chants, which were spawned by the Lakers-Celtics games in the 1980s.
