Thread 126795413

I've always seen Elvis as a watered down version of black artists of the 50s and that his being white made rock & roll acceptable.
The other day there was the Baz Luhrman movie on TV and I watched it, thinking I would finally understand why he was so popular. I still don't see it.

>>126795413 (OP)
CAUGHT IN A BRAAAP, CAN'T WOG OUT, BEE CAUSE I LOVE U2 MUSH BABY !!!

>>126795413 (OP)
>he doesn't understand THE KING

>>126795413 (OP)
If this was all you had to listen to you'd jump for him too.

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aura + rizz

>>126795413 (OP)
I love the King but Little Richard pissed all over him in terms of the true, rebellious, outcast spirit of rock & roll.

>>126795896
and chuck berry pissed all over......................... whores

And we regret that Eddie Fisher didn't think to use a condom.

>>126795516
The Moonglows had an amusing cover/deconstruction of Secret Love.

>>126795516
They could've gone to the more downtown urban areas and scored a couple these tho. Just gotta hide the cerise

>>126795516
I think I first heard the top left on a Simpsons episode.

>>126796173
>The Moonglows had an amusing cover/deconstruction of Secret Love

What you probably don't know is that Doris Day never wanted to be doing that corny sap or the bad movies, it was mostly forced on her by her second husband who was quite controlling and wouldn't let her do anything with any edge to it.

>>126795413 (OP)
Honestly Elvis just did it better than the blackies. He had more rizz.

They walked so Elvis could run.

>>126795413 (OP)
>I've always seen Elvis as a watered down version of black artists of the 50s and that his being white made rock & roll acceptable.
There was no rock, retard. He created it by fusing hillbilly and blues. He released songs years before Berry did and you stupid faggots shut out basic act facts. Little Richard played pianos and was a faggot. He loses. Only other guy with any rightful claim to rock is Bill Haley, who also released in 54. And he's white.
Rock isn't the fucking blues. The blues is the blues. It just incorporates it.

>>126797381
Elvis cut That's All Right in 1954. Arthur Crudup did it in 1946. If Elvis' version is rock and roll, Crudup's sure sounds like rock and roll to me too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt9reGxoqyo

1951 Jackie Brenston Rocket 88 might technically be more R&B, but it's often now considered the first rock and roll song (I disagree because of the above That's All Right). It sounds like rock and roll to me:
https://youtu.be/260hXID0Yo0?si=0aawNYd6CytANSf_

>>126797492
Crudup is blues. Elvis is a hillbilly. Crudup himself says it was different. Simply covering a blues song doesn't make it the same thing. All kinds of blues artists covered stuff. Songs functioned like jazz standards. It's only you dumbass post Dylan faggots who think everyone has to write something.
Just like Rocket 88 wasn't rock either btw. Ike Turner himself said it was R&B.

>>126797505
I'm just going by my own ear. Both recordings sound exactly like a rock and roll song from the mid 50s to me, and distinctly different from just blues or jazz.

>>126796140
send more chuck berry

>>126797520
Rock is always a fusion of blues+something else. If you think Scotty Moore's playing and Elvis vocals sound like blues, you're not listening that hard. They got it from country.
And rock afterwards was always a fusion of something else too. Dick Dale was Lebanese and raised on Med music. He practically created surf rock, but it was that driving beat from blues and r&b mixed with Mediterrean shit. Beatles, Led Zeppelin, etc =English folk and bluesiness. Neoclassical and blues incorporated more classical shit to the groove.

>>126797543
I meant Neoclassical and metal* incorporated classical and blues.

>>126797363
This, he added a lot to it that made rock and roll more than just a subgenre of blues:
>focus on (catchy) vocal melody
>the fashion and fangirl-baiting
>that hawaiian luau element that chilled the whole thing out a lot
>pills

'Elvis stole rock and roll' is a midwit contrarian take for people who just read a list of blues artists on wikipedia. He made it his own thing and that's the thing everyone kept doing long after he died

>>126795896
Correct

>>126797576
Just to add, the whole youth culture thing was different too. It came on the heels of other youth pop culture shit... Like James Dean and Brando. And JD Salinger/Catcher in the Rye. I mean, Elvis was after those guys and looked up to them himself.

>>126797381
>He released songs years before Berry did and you stupid faggots shut out basic act facts
Well, one year before Berry.

>>126795413 (OP)
Less authentic, x was more y, blah blah blah. Who gives a fuck? Get the Sun Sessions record and shut the fuck up.

>>126795413 (OP)
There are many kings of this and that, but there’s only one King