What's so great about Elvis Presley?!
Question: I'm a huge music fan, all genres and I even though I'm young I appreciate the majority of the singers that were way beofre my time, but when I listen to his voice it comes off as mediocre, I mean when he was younger he was a cutey, but his voice sucks, I do like some of his songs though, but voice wise he sounds just as bad as my dad, and I'd rather listen to the great Sinatra, or Nat King Cole....I just don't get the fascination with Elvis
Answers: I'm a huge music fan, all genres and I even though I'm young I appreciate the majority of the singers that were way beofre my time, but when I listen to his voice it comes off as mediocre, I mean when he was younger he was a cutey, but his voice sucks, I do like some of his songs though, but voice wise he sounds just as bad as my dad, and I'd rather listen to the great Sinatra, or Nat King Cole....I just don't get the fascination with Elvis
I'm only a couple years older than you and I absolutely love music from the 40's and 50's. I'm the same way. I don't go by what's popular. The majority of my music collection is 1940-1959, not including Elvis that is. I'm a huge Elvis fan. To me, when I hear him sing....there's energy, passion, love, magic and a beautiful voice behind it all.
Elvis fans have this saying "If your an Elvis fan, no explanation is necessary. If your not, no explanation is possible." It's very true, it can't be defined, it's just something about him that all fans understand, but can't put into words. "Sweet" is right, go to Graceland and you'll understand. Maybe not as much as the fans do, but you'll understand. It's a completely different reality/frame of mind at Graceland. Every time I go down there, it feels like one big family reunion.
Music is different to everybody: what we like, what we don't like, how we interpret a song, our definition of a good song. No offense, but I used to think that Frank Sinatra didn't have that good a voice. I was more Elvis and Dean Martin. Granted, I like Frank Sinatra now, but it wasn't until I understood more about Frank - who he is, where he comes from (background, not where he literally comes from). But that's the thing. I think maybe you don't understand Elvis enough - who he is, his personality, where he comes from....just like I didn't understand Frank. Maybe you just heard some songs, but don't really know all that much about the man behind the songs. Elvis is a great man. He had a great heart, a great personality and a real passion for what he did. And that's only part of what makes him the amazing man...and singer, that he is.
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It was his hair and shaking hips and that sneer he had. And he went againt the grain. Made the younger crowd love him. Why do you like the groups of to day.? Most you don't have a clue what is being said!! But there you go.
Visit Graceland and it will all be clear to you. He was a very interesting and talented man. He was the Creator of Rock n Roll for starters, served our country, a great actor and a sex symbol to all young women and old of that time. He was such a combination of things that most people in the entertainment industry at that time just weren't multi talented enough to do like he did. Not saying all but most just marveled at his non stop energy. Sad that he got mixed up in the drugs. What a waste of a good thing.
What is so great about Elvis is that he's dead. Elvis sang better than I do. Some of his songs he does quite well, and othes are not very good. I prefer Cole as well. Elvis made a splash by being the right thing at the right time...a sexually suggestive white guy-swinging his broken hips on stage-when young white girls were very sexually repressed. He sang mostly black songs. Then his flash flamed out. He made a brief comeback, but that soon fizzeld. In his entire life he made about $3,000,000.00...most of which he blew on houses for his Momma, and drugs for himself. The big Elvis phenomenon only began after Elvis died, and his widow began marketing his records, and image. It is still mostly lonely, sexually deprived, sexually repressed, white, country, females who worship Elvis. They dream of some guy coming along and saying to them the things Elvis sings in his songs. It is the message of the lyrics of Elvis' songs rather than his voice, which sets these nearly virgin 'nympho wannabes' hearts aflutter.
wow Elivis was definitely not the start of Rocking Roll, and I agree with who says he was at the right place at the right time
Everything he did was new and different. He is the one that gave birth to rockabilly, rock and roll, etc. Listen to some of the music before his time and see how bland it is. You have good taste in Sinatra and Nat King Cole. Actually though, if we all liked the same things, it would be a very boring world, wouldn`t it?