Will there ever be another Elvis?

@CountScrofula you are too young to understand Elvis. you would have had to of been alive then. i am saying that that there is no one more sexy or talented or mysterious or interesting as Elvis and there never will be again. and don't refer to some else's taste when you know nothing about them. my favorite music is romantic classical.

@DIABLISS Sure, but should the kids of today listen to Elvis' music, or the music of their generation?

@CountScrofula and again....not what i am saying. i am saying someone that sexy and talented and provoking and interesting will never come along again. i never said an Elvis imitator

There are better musicians, better singers. There always have been. Elvis was just the great white hope in the early days of R&B/Rock & Roll.

And I [b]am[/b] old enough to remember.

@bijouxbroussard erm kay...none of them were everything

@DIABLISS Neither was Elvis, ultimately. He didn’t quite outlive his legend—but he came close.

@bijouxbroussard he didn't know how to live with his fame. if he had just separated his life...it would have been better. he should have married and had oodles of children...and not been so weird. it drove him insane and made him do drugs that made him poofy and gross. and when his weird friends came over, it should have been "bring your families with you and there will be no drugs or heavy drinking". he needed to have a normal existence outside of the mess that was his career. and dump Colonel Tom

@DIABLISS Sexy, of course, is a matter of taste and it would be silly to argue over taste. But there are a number of candidates for more talented. Evis's talents were vocals and dancing; he was not much of an instrumentalist.

Jim Morrison didn't dance, but he sure could sing and he himself wrote most of his stuff - highly talented - and a slightly younger generation found him the sexiest man alive.

Michael Jackson, who wrote over 100 of his own songs, was a far better dancer than Elvis and - I'll say it - in his own way every bit as good a singer. And many found him highly sexy.

Yet a different generation found the young Axl Rose or Kurt Cobain to be the sexiest men alive; both extremely talented and "mysterious."

And then there's Freddy Mercury. Again, sexy is a matter of taste but both men and women found him highly sexy. And, with his 3 octave range, he could out-siing anybody else on stage. Wrote a lot of his own stuff too.

With all that said, of course Elvis is the sexiest most talented most mysterious to you and some of your generation. Rock stars connect with us when we and they at a certain age. It's like a first love. They help awaken new parts of our understanding and our libido, and it can only happen once for each of us. Which person does it depends on when and where we're born.

I'm sure I'm leaving dozens of names off the list - Frank Sinatra, Johnny Cash, Jimi Hendrix, David Lee Roth, etc etc. "It's every generation throws a hero up the pop charts" in the words of Paul Simon.

P.S. I'm a big big fan of the younger Elvis; I recently watched that movie about his life. It made the point that his talent was mostly squandered by his manager; very sad.

@ElwoodBlues all of those people you mentioned are talented and fabulous, but they weren't Elvis. No one created such a buzz or an immense wave or fandom. and if he were shown better dancing, i bet he could have imitated it. i am certain that he would have sang better if there were more competition during his time...but there wasn't. My original point is that Elvis brought people together in a way that no one else has ever done...and never will . all women at that time wanted to sleep with him. all men wanted to be him...or sleep with him. he was godlike. and there will never be another him. ever. and i just find it depressing.

@DIABLISS Gawd, you’re clueless about so much. I’m done. 🙄

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

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

@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