is Elvis being forgotten?

[Mr. Racewar1488]

Elvis was the first White man to do black music so he's been cancelled. Eminem is safe because he trooned out his son (or pooned his daughter?) and voted for the CORRECT CANDIDATE in the last several elections.

Serious answer: He was popular 70 years ago so his youngest fans are all in nursing homes or rotting away watching QVC in their homes. It's like asking why Ragtime music wasn't talked about in the 90s, shit was way passed its prime.

 

[Ultrapenguin]

So like, what's the deal here? Is there some active push? Is Elvis a person whose life was more interesting than his work? Or is it just that since I don't hang out in music circles, I naturally don't hear about him all that often?

You hear about the beatles because they were considered genuinely good/revolutionary musicians (personally I just think they're fine), while Elvis was more of a cultural figure. I guess they both appealed heavily to teenage girls, but Elvis didn't really have a lot beyond that. Nobody is out there being heavily influenced by Elvis's music at this point.

They put him in a bunch of movies, except they were basically all dumb schlock intended to bring in horny teen girls. He himself apparently kind of wanted to become a serious actor, but eventually he realized he was never going to be taken seriously and it contributed to his downard spiral, so that's a little sad I think.
That's probably why you don't hear that much about him. Nobody ever truly took Elvis that seriously as a musician. He was just an entertainer, and a very hammy one who was a product of his time.

At one point I actually watched this fruit loop's hour and a half long video discussing all of Elvis' movies, so maybe it could give you an idea of what Elvis got up to aside from his music.

 

[skykiii]

Tbh, most of the musicians of the 20th century will have only limited cultural significance, and the time of many is already running out.
This is pretty normal though, music and tastes always evolve and change.

15 years ago you heard about Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Queen, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones etc. a whole lot more than you do now. Every star fades eventually

Yeah but... none of those guys were considered the King of Rock n' Roll or had the (apparent) level of pop-culture significance Elvis did.

So its kind of a "man, I used to hear about this old dead guy a lot despite growing up in the eighties and nineties, but now I never do but I hear a lot about different old dead guys. What's up with that?"

It would be like if you woke up one day and realized "hey, its been years since anyone mentioned Chronicles of Narnia, but I hear about Lord of the Rings all the time, what's up with that?" (That's a hypothetical example but weirdly, now that I've written it, its kinda true. Originally I was gonna use Dune instead of Narnia but Dune got those recent movies... before those, same situation).

 

[MrTroll]

He even tried to get the Beatles deported.

They ate black pudding in front of him. They should all have been put in prison.

 

[TokiBun]

If I'm feeling less lazy I can find it since I'm the biggest Beatles autist on the farms--basically John or Paul talked about merging Elvis and being disappointed in him being a total lolcow. They could tell Elvis was seething in jealousy since by the time they met his popularity was on the downturn while the Beatles were entering into international stardom.
The Beatles took over his place as pop culture icons pretty quickly. The reason why is probably because the Fab Four never disparaged black musicians, were always open about being inspired by them, and would help promote or build the careers of black musicians. Black people do not consider them culture vultures for this reason unlike Elvis who was teetering into Pat Boone levels of acting like a wigger.

 

[Rango Dango]

who

 

[ShahOfIran1979]

No, he is legend.

 

[ParasiteSteve]

If I'm feeling less lazy I can find it since I'm the biggest Beatles autist on the farms--basically John or Paul talked about merging Elvis and being disappointed in him being a total lolcow. They could tell Elvis was seething in jealousy since by the time they met his popularity was on the downturn while the Beatles were entering into international stardom.
The Beatles took over his place as pop culture icons pretty quickly. The reason why is probably because the Fab Four never disparaged black musicians, were always open about being inspired by them, and would help promote or build the careers of black musicians. Black people do not consider them culture vultures for this reason unlike Elvis who was teetering into Pat Boone levels of acting like a wigger.

The knew that to make it in America, you had to get on your knees and pretend blacks invented music. If you do not worship groids, then to be frank, the Americans will hate you.

 

[Mike Patton Official]

Last time I thought about him was because I watched a youtube video about how he died in the toilet whilst heavily constipated. I wanted to look at an autopsy report but I don't know if it's publicly available and I also don't want to search "Elvis autopsy report" because it makes me feel evil.

 

[The Hardest R]

Nah, he’s more or less been canceled. They think he was mean to black people and that he stole their music. Most people who liked him are either in the “greatest” generation, who are basically all dead now, and the silent generation, most of whom are in nursing homes getting abused by nigger orderlies. Boomers and Xers think it’s cool to hate Elvis, millennials think he was rayciss, and zoomers don’t know who the fuck he is.

 

[Medic]

What are you talking about Elvis didn't die and became forgotten. He just assumed a new identity as Unknown Hinson.

 

[Drip Torch]

I unironically want a velvet Elvis painting.

 

[David Brown]

. I guess they both appealed heavily to teenage girls, but Elvis didn't really have a lot beyond that. Nobody is out there being heavily influenced by Elvis's music at this point.

teen girls and Glenn Danzig lol

 

[millais]

He was in Blade Runner 2049.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

There was that biopic movie in 2022, it made quite a bit of money and got 8 Oscar nominations.
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Honestly don't care about Elvis (person and biopic), but damn Austin Butler was actually fantastic, came a long way from Aliens in the Attic. Real shame he didn't win at the Academy, but they're run by a bunch of snobs, so he got his wins elsewhere from more respectable people.

 

[TORtlEMUStRaNSUS]

If you don't think this is one of the best live performances of all time I think you are wrong.

 

[Metatron]

I saw a pic of him a few years ago. He was at the Jomhas wedding. Good kid.

 

[ShahOfIran1979]

Last time I thought about him was because I watched a youtube video about how he died in the toilet whilst heavily constipated. I wanted to look at an autopsy report but I don't know if it's publicly available and I also don't want to search "Elvis autopsy report" because it makes me feel evil.

If I remember correctly, his autopsy won't be released until 100 years after his death or something.

 

[Mike Patton Official]

If I remember correctly, his autopsy won't be released until 100 years after his death or something.

That is so stupid. In 100 years the people that made that rule up won't even be here to make sure it happens. I WANNA SEE IT NEOWWW

 

[Hypercop]

It would be like if you woke up one day and realized "hey, its been years since anyone mentioned Chronicles of Narnia, but I hear about Lord of the Rings all the time, what's up with that?" (That's a hypothetical example but weirdly, now that I've written it, its kinda true. Originally I was gonna use Dune instead of Narnia but Dune got those recent movies... before those, same situation).

Something I realized is that when a big pop culture thing loses all popularity, it's because it was replaced by something newer. Take rock for example. Rock survived during the 2000's because rap was its competition, and there still was a ton of stuff you couldn't do in rap back then. When Kanye signed to Def Jam it was a factory of thug looking dudes who rapped about murder and drugs, and it was universally believed you couldn't make a rap hit without these things. Kanye made it cool to be uncool: to wear polos, tuxes, rap about god and family, and to put cringey one-liners in songs about bleaching a model's asshole. So in the 2010's, Kanye's influence became universal and now everyone could do this shit. Guys like A$AP Rocky rapped over samples from Majora's Mask and Silent Hill and people loved it. Nowadays, you can do anything you want in rap music which is why gen z loves it. The cutting edge of rap now takes influence from EDM, goth music, metal, and pretty much whatever people like. People only go back to old stuff if it has something they can't get from newer things.

Stuff disappears from pop culture because people take their favorite elements of a thing, discard the rest, and combine those elements with the best elements of other stuff. I think LOTR survives because its worldbuilding still mogs all other fantasy, for example. If something ever comes around and one-ups LOTR on that, expect to see its popularity decline too.