Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Why disco made pop songs longer" video.

  1. 8:10 Wondering when you were going to mention Blue Monday ! Note it wasn’t a disco piece by any stretch, though it obviously would have had trouble existing if the 12” format wasn’t already popular. Also note that FM radio took full advantage of 12” singles as well, since they sounded so good, and hi-fi stereo radio could really show that off.
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  2. 4:03 Clever idea: why couldn’t they have run the record slower? Instead of 45rpm, how about, I don’t know, just picking a figure off the top of my head here, 33⅓rpm?
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  3. No, it wasn’t disco that did it (though disco did benefit from it), it was FM radio that popularized the 12” single. For example, New Order’s Blue Monday could not be described as a “disco” piece, yet the 12” version was all over the airwaves around the mid-1980s, when FM really hit NZ in a big way.
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