Could Elvis still be alive?

**oszkar07** · 08-17-2019, 08:13 AM

Originally Posted by Richmondbread

Yes he does look somewhat like him. Accounting for age, and also his voice and vocal phrasing. So similar.

Some people spend their whole lives imitating Elvis ...so voice and vocal is not suprising even body movements could be imitated over time ...I dont think he looks particuliarly like him and he lacks that certain scowl facial expression that Elvis and Elvis's daughter both have... unless he has had work-plastic suregery done to make him not look 100% like Elvis.
Anyway it could be easily determined by DNA test and birthday records , height and eye colour.

**sean** · 08-17-2019, 09:06 AM

Originally Posted by Richmondbread

What Do Y'all think?

Do people even care anymore? I mean, 99% of a musician's clout disappears when the people who were alive when they died also die. Elvis died in 1977, 42 years ago. You're basically 60+ now if you have any real connection to Elvis, and these people are dying off.

It's the same shit for all sorts of pre-Elvis stars. When I grew up, my grandpa listened to "doo-wop" stuff on the radio from the 40s and 50s. No one listens to that shit anymore.

**Richmondbread** · 08-17-2019, 05:42 PM

Originally Posted by oszkar07

Some people spend their whole lives imitating Elvis ...so voice and vocal is not suprising even body movements could be imitated over time ...I dont think he looks particuliarly like him and he lacks that certain scowl facial expression that Elvis and Elvis's daughter both have... unless he has had work-plastic suregery done to make him not look 100% like Elvis.
Anyway it could be easily determined by DNA test and birthday records , height and eye colour.

But he's not trying and it's the most natural semblance to Elvis I have ever seen. He also said he is not Elvis and people demand to say that he is. This is probably because (((they))) would kill him if he revealed the truth.

**Richmondbread** · 08-17-2019, 05:43 PM

Originally Posted by sean

Do people even care anymore? I mean, 99% of a musician's clout disappears when the people who were alive when they died also die. Elvis died in 1977, 42 years ago. You're basically 60+ now if you have any real connection to Elvis, and these people are dying off.

It's the same shit for all sorts of pre-Elvis stars. When I grew up, my grandpa listened to "doo-wop" stuff on the radio from the 40s and 50s. No one listens to that shit anymore.

Elvis changed music history forever and most modern music sucks so bad . There isn't any real talent today, so that's why we should "care". His music is timeless in many ways. It was his charisma and stage presence that captivated people still to this day. Many younger fans are coming to Elvis Presley, either through their parents or grandparents influence. Nobody will care if some Hipptiy Hop jungle jiver dies. Their music is not relevant. Elvis lives on.

**sean** · 06-27-2021, 10:25 PM

Originally Posted by Richmondbread

Elvis changed music history forever and most modern music sucks so bad . There isn't any real talent today, so that's why we should "care". His music is timeless in many ways. It was his charisma and stage presence that captivated people still to this day. Many younger fans are coming to Elvis Presley, either through their parents or grandparents influence. Nobody will care if some Hipptiy Hop jungle jiver dies. Their music is not relevant. Elvis lives on.

Whatever. Zoomer US whites (what's left of them) all unironically love SoundCloud rap and will pretty much only listen to hip hop/rap and all that it entails.

Elvis Presley's movies and music you thought were profound are actually corny af. Rock 'n' Roll is dead. Nobody listens to it anymore.

Everyone got old, and young people got into different genres or created new genres. You know what contributed to the downfall of Bluegrass and Folk?

Then-young people getting into Rock 'n' Roll through Elvis. Same fate befell Jazz, Big Band and Swing music. Look at what contributed to the downfall of Big Band, Swing or Bluegrass music. The advent of television gave rise to Rock 'n' Roll, which continued up until the mid-2000s when MTV started to decline.

Fast forward to today where people get the content online. The recording industry today is completely adrift and has no clue for it's future. A huge swatch of Grammy winners all got their start on YouTube; Justin Bieber himself is old news now, but he was the original YT star.

Since television is no longer a vector for music, new platforms emerge. The various music platforms across the Internet have developed their own respective culture for artists to self-distribute and thus develop fanbases respond to stuff appealing to their respective palates.

This generation doesn't care for Rock music either. If you notice, the vast majority of Rock fans skew older, especially for "Classic Rock" (stuff produced in the '70s and '80s). Zoomers don't care for Rock at all, and the Millennials that do don't listen to Classic Rock. Frankly, Rock music has been thoroughly exhausted.

What's left for Rock? You either have fringe people like Varg or you have old men strumming the guitars they bought when Johnson or Nixon were President.