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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Someone explain the fascination to me. I've never understood why people who didn't grow up when Elvis was big think Elvis is so great. It's not like the Beatles, whose music is still fantastic, to this day. Elvis always seemed like a cheeseball to me with limited vocal range. I guess objectively speaking, one could consider him cool for his time. But this everlasting love makes no sense. He thrusts his pelvis and wears white suits with capes. Uh...so what?
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He made black music truly mainstream instead of exotic for white people, without (too) horribly homogenizing it first. He showed the blues/gospel roots of rock & roll for what they were, & made it acceptable. Seems a pretty big accomplishment to me. Dunno about the religious zeal of it all, but still....
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