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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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.

DIABLISS

@bijouxbroussard Eminem has very little talent and no sex appeal. there is no comparison. Timberlake is close to the ball park and he isn't very attractive...but talented. and we will never see the talent that Roy Clark or peter tork had...those days died with them. i think it is technology and laziness

bijouxbroussard · F

@DIABLISS Peter Tork was definitely underrated. But Eminem has his fans, for whom he made hip-hop more "palatable". Arguably, Elvis made R&B and early rock more palatable for his.

DIABLISS

@bijouxbroussard i have heard Eminem sing though and meh

bijouxbroussard · F

@DIABLISS I’m not a huge fan. But I wasn’t a fan of Elvis’ either. And I am old enough to remember him well. He was a "pretty face" who made a fortune on music other musicians never received credit for.

DIABLISS

@bijouxbroussard wow, the only people i have ever read saying or heard saying they didn't love Elvis were too young to have enjoyed the hype. i know there will never be another singer or performer like that in history...ever. i just wanted to know what others thought. and why should they? Actors get famous for saying words that aren't theirs....singers now get credit for singing something written by another....so why shouldn't Elvis have gotten famous on another's work? that is the way that business goes.

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.