Talk:Chic (band)

Blacks "couldnt play rock" in the 70s??

Never heard of that at all. They could play rock in the 50s (they could invent it too), but in the 60s and 70s they had to stop due to "the discrimination of the day"? Who wrote that? How did a band like Thin Lizzy, who had a black frontman/bassist, ever make it playing rock in the 70s, then? (shaking head)

71.241.118.23 (talk) 18:16, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Chic --> CHIC?

Does anyone with any knowledge of this band believe the page should be moved to CHIC (all caps) with a redirect from Chic? Thanks. JHMM13 (T | C) 15:41, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

I have gone ahead and made this move after reading through the page and seeing the cover art and album titles. Please revert me if you think it is a mistake. JHMM13 (T | C) 15:47, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

The move is complete, but I will finish the disambig link (and double redirect) fixes when Wikipedia is not running quite as slowly. JHMM13 (T | C) 16:04, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

I run a fan web site on this band and are in contact with them too. They should definitely be spelt CHIC with all caps, just like for instance ABBA. Check out my website for more info: http://www.chictribute.com Pocat-chictribute.com 23:51, 23 March 2006 (GMT)

Seeing that even Nile Rodgers' own site is spotty about capitalizing the name Chic, it appears as though its status in all-caps is revisionist history. Although it appears on some album covers in all caps, that is a graphical device. Throughout the media, in myriad articles, it is not capitalized. Furthermore, on certain albums such as Chic-ism' and Chic Freak it appears on the album cover with only a capital C. Chic is not an acronym; the letters don't stand for anything, unlike ABBA, which stands for Agnetha, Benny, Björn, Annifrid. This whole capitalization affair appears to be fanism, and the pages should be reverted to the way they were before. Iamvered 13:19, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

CHIC have released 8 albums, 9 if you count the live album released in 1999. On all but one "Take It Off" (1981) have CHIC been written in all capital letters. I don't know what kind of release of CHIC-ism the above poster have, but I have the original release, and an additional copy printed later, both have "CHIC-ism" using CHIC with all capitals on the front cover. And on all CHIC albums and CHIC Organization productions, such as Sisters Sledge' "We Are Family" (1979) the "Produced by Bernard Edwards & Nile Rodgers for the CHIC Organization Ltd." note is on the back cover, with CHIC in all capitals. No matter if CHIC is not an acronym, the band have almost always choosen to present themselves as CHIC with all capitals, who are we to change that? Btw, I have seen ABBA, despite it being an acronym, being written Abba in several articles, that doesn't make it right. The "Chic Freak" album was originally released as a Nile Rodgers album in Japan in 1996, it has just been renamed (a CHIC album) for release in the US in 2005. Pocat-chictribute.com 12:59, 9 June 2006 (GMT)

Cleanup

What about the articles needs to be improved or cleaned up? Hyacinth 23:19, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

It doesn't look bad overall, but it could definitely benefit from:

• a better lead section, and from being divided into logical sections. (Compare The Beatles, Bob Dylan and Duran Duran, all music category featured articles.)
• a separate discography on a page titled CHIC discography, if it's going to have pictures in it. There is no standard format for discography pages yet -- shop around the other examples at Category:Discographies to find one you like.
• The extensive quote about "Le Freak" should be moved to that article; it's unbalancing here.
• A section about who influenced the band, and who the band has influenced since, would be helpful -- be sure to cite sources (magazine articles, interviews, reviews), as something this subjective should not be based on personal opinion.

I hope that gives you something to start with....check out the links above for helpful guidelines, as well as the Wikipedia:Guide to writing better articles and Wikipedia:What is a featured article? for more pointers.

You don't have to wait for someone else to remove the cleanup tag, by the way -- after working on it, if you feel the article meets the points in the better articles guide, you can remove it yourself. Good luck! — Catherine\^talk 00:08, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

New "Chic" article

The main heading "chic" appears to have been hijacked by some strange article in which the word "acronym" does not appear to have been spelt correctly. I have added some links to other "chic" items, but do others think that this new article amounts to anything?--IXIA 13:14, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Have now sorted this out - I think! New "chic" article transferred to "chic (conference)", but someone needs to correct the spelling amd generally tidy it up. Looks a bit like an advert.--IXIA 15:47, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

my name, Richard Hilton, is improperly linked to another person of the same name. My information can be found at www.hiltonius.com or at www.myspace.com/hiltonius. I am in no way related to Paris Hilton, or anyone from the Hilton Hotel family.

Samples

Chic are (surely) one of the most sampled bands around... shouldn't we start an appropriate section dealing with this? Alcazar, Sugarhill Gang, De La Soul, and Faith Evans all come to mind... more are found by Googling find sites such as this. Jhamez84 21:49, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

CHIC or Chic

One of the main contributors to this article has asked me what Wikipedia policy is on the correct naming of a band. Since Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, the name that is used here should be exactly that which the band used in its official documents and how it is referred to in the general media. If they referred to themselves as CHIC and that is how it was generally written almost everywhere, the article should be titled CHIC (band), but you should provide multiple sources for that that (such as a copyright page of a cd or official documents from their label). This issue was brought up over at Blink-182 where the same user who is modifying this article for WP:MOS purposes did so there. I don't particularly agree with the guideline of changing proper names for bands just because we prefer English grammar rules to the proper name, but that is the guideline. It specifically states:

• Follow standard English text formatting and capitalization rules even if the trademark owner encourages special treatment:
  • avoid: REALTOR®
  • instead, use: Realtor
  • but, don't invent new formats: MCI is standard English, while "Mci" is essentially never used.

To me, as I said above, this means that if they were always referred to as CHIC, much like ABBA was never written Abba, then we should keep it as CHIC. ABBA is an acronym, but it is also the proper name of the band. It is a pronounced word like "CHIC" and not spelled out letter for letter. So it all comes down to the common usage. JHMM13 16:42, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

That bit about new formats refers to not unnecessarily inventing new formats, in this case a mixed-case variant of the name given in the example, as spelling an acronym in all-caps is already standard English. But Chic is neither an acronym, nor is the mixed-case variant without precedents from reliable sources (for example the All Music Guide, Amazon and the Rolling Stone magazine). - Cyrus XIII 18:45, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Yeh, I agree..let's keep it as it is. JHMM13 19:09, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

p.s. All of their album covers have it written CHIC, except for this one that says Chic and another that says CHiC. Apparently they didn't seem to be all too consistent on CHIC either. JHMM13 19:28, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

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Additional citations

Why, what, where, and how does this article need additional citations for verification? Hyacinth (talk) 11:15, 2 July 2011 (UTC)

Question about the associated acts

I noticed that some of the former members like Luther Vandross, Norma Jean Wright, Sylver Logan Sharp, etc. were mentioned as associated acts while are also mentioned as former members which they are. Is it appropriate to also list them associated acts? Horizonlove (talk) 08:01, 23 July 2019 (UTC)