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Will there ever be another Elvis?

He died along time ago and it seems like there would have been someone to take his place by now and there just isn't anyone. Phil Collins can barely speak. Half of the Beatles are gone. Most of the Monkees are gone. the original Lynyrd Skynyrd is all gone. and there really aren't any bands or singers around to take their places, are there? why is everyone so mediocre now?

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Bignakedguy · 31-35, M

It’s hard for lighting to strike twice.

Sadly, mediocrity sells… I don’t know why.

Prince once said that the music industry isn’t run by musicians. It’s run by a bunch of guys in suits who THINK they know what the youth wants to hear.

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DIABLISS

@Bignakedguy can i have one of those?

Bignakedguy · 31-35, M

@DIABLISS Yes you may. They come In different colors to

DIABLISS

@Bignakedguy yay

YourMomsSecretCrush · M

Many copies....... but only one original. Just as there will only be one Mick Jagger, one Jimi Hendrix, one Robert Plant, etc.

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bijouxbroussard · F

@DIABLISS Says you. 🙄

DIABLISS

@bijouxbroussard yes, and i am right. none of them were sexy or good looking or fascinating in the same way

bijouxbroussard · F

@DIABLISS That’s your opinion, which you’re of course, entitled to.

CountScrofula · 41-45, M

There's endless brilliant musicians and songwriters out there. The fact they are not to your taste isn't surprising, why should they be? Music moves on, and people tend to love music from their childhood and teen years. Elvis was an extremely controversial figure during his early years and hated by the parents and grandparents of the kids who loved him.

The peak of Elvis' career was sixty years ago.

Imagine if your childhood had no new sounds, just music that sounded like it was from the 1910s.

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CountScrofula · 41-45, M

@bijouxbroussard I think she's just being adversarial for its own sake at this point. I can barely follow the thread of argument.

DIABLISS

@bijouxbroussard so you don't agree with someone's opinion on Elvis....and you are done...petty

DIABLISS

@CountScrofula i assume you are speaking of me. i am just answering to people commenting on my question. and for people to get so worked up about a conversation on Elvis of all things is childish...and kinda funny

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

Did you ever hear that preacher in Arkansas singing? Sounds just like Elvis. His name is Bob Joyce. Pricilla Presley was asked on a talk show years later what she thought Elvis would be doing then if he had lived. She said he wanted to be a preacher at a little church.

DIABLISS

@cherokeepatti if Elvis had lived that long, that might be what he sounded like. was that guy an Elvis imitator years ago?

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@DIABLISS I’ve never seen an Elvis imitator with those same resemblances including that voice. I knew two families who would drive to Arkansas and listen to Bob Joyce preach and sing back over 20 years ago. They were Elvis fans. I believe he was the real Elvis who had gotten fed up with the industry and not having any privacy when he’d try to go out and leave Graceland. The paparazzi would be waiting for him. The location of the church is on the same road that goes straight to Graceland.

DIABLISS

@cherokeepatti they have some similarities but you can't change eyes and the mouth is all wrong. and Elvis would be alot older. However, they could be related and that would make it more likely for one to sound like the other

originnone · 61-69, M

I thought Green Day or the Killers might get there, but nope. Mick Jagger might be closest. Bob Dylan is still around. Springsteen maybe?

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DIABLISS

@bijouxbroussard so....what? that means i don't know for a fact that there will never be another Elvis? i didn't know anything about him until '64 when i moved to the big city. So i was bombarded with music and tv because that is all people did back then. i was immersed in media. i saw and heard what was going on in a way that others took for granted.

bijouxbroussard · F

@DIABLISS Whatever. Or in your language, "erm kay". 😅

DIABLISS

@bijouxbroussard i thought you were done? and i got erm kay from your little group years ago

Coralmist · 41-45, F

Well someone just as big as Elvis was Michael Jackson. Phenomenal musician and performer while having that IT factor and presence, like Elvis. They had different sounds, but both had so many hits that really were GREAT songs.

DIABLISS

@Coralmist i would say that Michael was in the running but still, not Elvis....just close

DoubleRings · 51-55, F

No one will ever duplicate the King. He was beautiful and talented. Odd too, but there will never be another.

DIABLISS

@DoubleRings lovely. thanks

Bignakedguy · 31-35, M

Now, if there will ever be a modern Elvis.

1. He’ll have to be handsome as hell

2. Can actually play instruments

3. Have some soul! That’s what artist are missing these days.

DIABLISS

@Bignakedguy so true

bijouxbroussard · F

Soul was Sam Cooke ! Sexy, too. 😳

DIABLISS

@bijouxbroussard lovely voice but physically not much and he didn't have that presence

caPnAhab · 26-30, M

There will always be hope for another "replacement" as long as there are still fans. I don't think anyone can actually replace any of these people, but perhaps someone will bring a similar spirit onto the scene

DIABLISS

@caPnAhab but there isn't anyone close to bringing the same spirit

caPnAhab · 26-30, M

@DIABLISS I don't know, I wouldn't say there absolutely isn't. Maybe they haven't been seen yet, or they don't exist yet?

SW-User

I don't think so

SW-User

I hope not

antonioioio · 70-79, M

He was a great admirer of Brendan Bowyer

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antonioioio · 70-79, M

@DIABLISS Brendan Bowyer was a singer in the Royal Show Band
Used to sing in Dallis and Elvis used to go hear him sing

DIABLISS

@antonioioio i will look him up. thanks

DIABLISS

@antonioioio Do the Hucklebuck...he wasn't sexy though, but i see your point

SW-User

Stones were better than the Beatles

DIABLISS

@SW-User i will never believe that. and if they had stayed together....they would have outsold everyone

SW-User

@DIABLISS you dont know that. The Stones have sold 240 million records.

DIABLISS

@SW-User yes...and they stayed together forever and will die together and still keep going. but if the Beatles had stayed together, they would have outsold everyone everywhere.

uncalled4 · 56-60, M

No. And no Beatles, Stones, etc. That ground has been trodden upon, and the flag has been placed in the soil. There will also be no Ella, Miles, Buddy Rich, etc. To even say "another _______" is to mitigate what made these people enigmatic and great and unique in the first place. Someone like Prince--even if you can find a multi-instrumentalist singer/songwriter, the chance of him burning to be an artist and innovate[i][/i] is going to be nearly impossible to find.

SW-User

@uncalled4 why they're not half as good anymore

uncalled4 · 56-60, M

@SW-User I think there will always be worthwhile music. But the breakthroughs of the 50s/60s and even 70s are done. But I'll take good songwriting or a great band. Take Queen for example--ALL FOUR wrote hit songs, three were singers, one was among the all-time best. You're not going to see that again.

DIABLISS

@uncalled4 i am so saddened by the fact that my sisters and friends had such an influence over me. i wish i had followed Queen more not to mention the countless extremely talented musical people that were famous in the sixties and seventies.

LegendofPeza · 56-60, M

Trump's doing quite a good impression of his Vegas days now.

TheOneyouwerewarnedabout · 46-50, MVIP

Jim Carey is just a jerry Lewis replacement ..

Fukfacewillie · 56-60, M

Given how Elvis changed pop music, and his effect on culture, not likely.

ElwoodBlues · M

@Fukfacewillie I would have said that Elvis's greatest contribution was introducing white kids to Black music. And he shared that contribution with Buddy Holly among others.

The film includes flashes of Sister Rosetta Tharpe (Yola), Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton (Shonka Dukureh), Little Richard, Mahalia Jackson (Cle Morgan) and Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup (Gary Clark Jr.) singing "Hound Dog," "That's All Right" and more – recognizing them as the original vocalists behind Elvis' covers. The movie also shows the admiration between Elvis and blues singer King.

... Thornton, widely acknowledged as the vocal architect of "Hound Dog," made the song a hit, only for it to be eclipsed by Elvis' cover.

... Thornton's story is not unique, as Elvis was influenced by B.B. King, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Jackson, Tharpe, Big Boy and more.

Little Richard argued that he was the rightful heir to the king of rock 'n' roll title, with Berry up there with him. "I sang (rock 'n' roll) a long time before I presented it to the public," Richard told Rolling Stone in 1990. “I really feel from the bottom of my heart that I am the inventor."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2022/06/30/elvis-presley-complicated-relationship-black-music/7746069001/

DIABLISS

@ElwoodBlues I don't think anyone knows who invented rock and roll because it was gradual. a radio announcer came up with the name. but Little Richard was too weird to have had an impact on that many in a serious manner. all of the rest you named i am sure had a big impact on Elvis but that is just the way it goes. We are all inspired by people and become what we are and then only one became Elvis.

Fukfacewillie · 56-60, M

@ElwoodBlues @DIABLISS Great points. I’ve found Fats Domino to be the perfect segway of blues into rock. Little Richard’s music still amazes me because the energy is just so insane!

calicuz · 56-60, M

Never, his voice was one of a kind.

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

Ever is a long time...😷

jimjim1969 · M

we are getting old

CBarson · 51-55

Tortelvis?

wildbill83 · 41-45, M

without Chuck Berry, no one would've ever heard of John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, etc.

DIABLISS

@wildbill83 i think that Bob Dylan would have been Bob Dylan even if there were no music before him

SW-User

Nah there will be copies but never the original again same could be said for everyone on earth 🌎 🌈

DIABLISS

@SW-User but there was Bing Crosby and then Sinatra and then Elvis and then the Beatles....and now nothing

SW-User

Ahh I gotcha

Like the 27 club

They were all of a certain kind of connection in their musical careers … forever a mystery @DIABLISS

bijouxbroussard · F

There were technically better musicians before, during and since. He was physically attractive and had the sound. Colonel Parker realized that Elvis Presley was, in fact, heavily influenced and inspired by Black musicians of the time and marketed him on that basis. The closest modern artist who’s had similar success has been Eminem.

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bijouxbroussard · F

@DIABLISS You dont understand, but that doesn’t surprise me. Elvis was very popular in the mainstream, and he was marketable as the white voice and face of what had been dismissed as "black music" in the segregated South. That is the way the music business (and other businesses) in the U.S. had always been.

DIABLISS

@bijouxbroussard erm kay

bijouxbroussard · F

@DIABLISS Whatever.

caesar7 · 61-69, M

Nope....oh wait a minute!! Kanye said he was the best that ever existed, the KIng ...there you go ! What a farce!! 🙄

DIABLISS

@caesar7 now that is funny! Eminem insists he has a great singing voice, too

bijouxbroussard · F

@caesar7 Kanye is a fool. But Elvis learned a lot from the black musicians of his day. He was even criticized for it in the beginning. People have either forgotten now, or they don’t realize that.

caesar7 · 61-69, M

@bijouxbroussard That's true.

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DIABLISS

@Darksideinthenight2 tone deaf?

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DIABLISS

@DunningKruger so true....it hurts

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DIABLISS

@SW-User they said in the news today that Phil is immobile. i love him.😫

SW-User

@DIABLISS He does not have long to go in this world, very sick man

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