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In case you aren't aware, disco had a stunning fall from grace in 1979, going from 80% of the Billboard Top 10 in May to getting evicted from the #1 spot by August, a period which was exemplified by and saw a highly visible grassroots anti-disco movement. IMO, trap music was able to narrowly avoid such a crash; although its market share is declining as and some artists (MGK, Lil Uzi Vert) drift into outright rock or adult contemporary. However, this doesn't seem like nearly as acrimonious or contentious of a decline, in part because a number of trap artists have been adjacent to country, rock, or R&B for some years (Young Thug, Jack Harlow, LNX, etc) and in part because there is still a vibrant trap underground with a number of interesting sub-genres and fusions (phonk, sigilkore, etc). The closest 2023 parallel to "Disco Demolition Night" in popular culture has been in cinema, which at least in Hollywood has grown very dependent on tentpole blockbuster franchises that generally draw from superhero comics or other science-fiction universes, and which have been having an increasingly bad run since about June-July (the "Flopbuster" summer followed by the strike and now iffy reviews for The Marvels and Hunger Games). Did rap/trap avoid an outright crash, and are there non-trivial parallels between the disco crash of 1979 and the "capeshit fatigue" of 2023?