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We all agree on him!

Okay, got it, sorry to you! Anyway, I noticed you didn't comment on my comment! But don’t you think I’d be stupid if I irrationally picked an artist and started throwing mud at them?! I’m not a 14-year-old kid anymore, thank goodness, who gets off on Ondarock or whatever! The point is, if my "justifications" don't convince you, they convince me a lot! Instead, yours seem unconvincing to me! I'm not so sure that mixing country is something exclusive to him! I mean, to be clear, in my personal opinion. But maybe for you it’s not that way, there’s another contemporary of his who has taken this aspect seriously and well, and that’s Johnny Cash (though maybe for you he remains much more country compared to Elvis and well, what can I say?)! Anyway, managing to bring a "niche" genre to the masses, which, in my opinion, wasn’t really that niche anyway (I don’t think Chuck Berry played exclusively for a black audience, even though he was a piece of work character-wise), isn’t, in my view, such an exciting and brilliant thing that guarantees him eternal glory. I still believe he was just a good face, and nothing more! What matters little to you matters to me. For me, it remains a spectacle. I remember that the main inspiration for Keith Richards (though maybe you disdain the Stones) was Chuck Berry, not this pompadoured guy! Maybe even this comment won’t be a source of valid motivations for you, and probably neither will your next one for me! It's a bit pointless for us to chat for days on this page xD! We’ll catch up, maybe agreeing on tearing down some diva, who knows? Bye-bye!

But you see? You yourself are saying it! Who cares if you or someone else likes this kind of show so much! I'm not trying to pronounce dogmas that I think are universal! I simply gave my opinion which, apparently, people like you can't stand! The fact that it's just simple entertainment, as you also unwittingly (I don't know how much) pointed out, disgusts me about him. Anyway, I'm not just talking about the black artists! The live performance in Hamburg by Lewis completely sweeps it away for me! (and those Lewis tracks aren’t even written by him just to emphasize that it’s not only for that reason that I don't like Elvis and blah blah the usual stories)! They are opinions! For me, he remains just a pretty face and nothing more! Do you see something more? Fine! It's okay, you're not the only one who thinks that way, but why act like aggressive jerks and judge others' thoughts as if they were vomit? Are you perhaps the holder of absolute truth? I don't think so! I've always found "idols" disgusting! And especially him, who was already "old" when he was born, whether you like it or not. And now, that's it. The discussion is closed here. Many kind regards.

Well then!

read yourself*

So Magnum has said the same about some contemporaries, LIGDJS, and I've highlighted that too; maybe read the comments better. In any case, I don't think I wrote anything wrong; on the contrary, I believe I was quite clear. If you think of yourself as a new Dante, good for you. It only holds as an image because technically it is mediocre, and the fact that it is mediocre is declared by the era and its contemporaries. He didn’t even write the songs, unlike some others, and he couldn’t play a damn thing. He was just a singer, and not even that exceptional, as gabrielegall said in a previous comment. So the show that you find valid is not valid for me! Therefore, given that I think it’s mediocre, it remains just an image that has been passed down through the years as a symbol of rock, and that’s it. It’s just a damn bourgeois symbol for the masses. Then, as I’ve already written, it’s obvious that as a symbol it has been important for posterity and blah blah, and I’ve said that before, but since you don’t read the comments well, it might be better to repeat it. Stop.

@LIGDJS: in fact, the losers from good families are definitely not those who came after him, but those from yesterday who worshipped him, that's who I'm talking about! I agree that he brought rock to the masses, etc... etc... but in my opinion, he is a very pathetic character who inevitably succumbs with his contemporaries, some of whom you mentioned! He is just a small cog in his own fame and in what he managed to create! Elvis is only worth as an image, as mere "pop" spectacle. Exactly this, beyond his mediocrity, truly disgusts me.

Very good album!

But how preposterous and absurd? Okay, it can be said that for many fans of the genre it remains an essential cornerstone, but compared to his contemporaries, he was a mediocre singer meant to uplift bands of loser upper-class kids. He was much more of an indie loser himself, that fake rebel of mine!

Shit.