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Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Elvis became popular by watering down a style so that it had mass appeal. For you, that may be improvement, but that is because you are one of the people with bland musical tastes - the people to whom Elvis was being marketed. It is not your fault you cannot take the real shit - you have lead a sheltered life, and it is hard for you to conceive of anything outside the boundaries of that sheltered life.
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Pat Boone became popular by watering down scary black folks music for the growing white suburbs. Hell, Pat Boone (and his ilk) watered down the original "white" versions of the "black" music. And, admittedly, as Elvis became more a commodity, he became pretty watered down as well.
But the early Elvis stuff (Sun Records and early RCA) is hardly watered down. Inspired by the blues and gospel that came before it, but not no more a rip-off than the work of the more creative elements of modern hip hop. And Scotty Moore's guitar kicked ass.
