Why Do You Think The Beatles Legacy Has Endured But Elvis’ Has Waned?

[Mister Terrific]

The Elvis slander in this thread. Was he a weirdo groomer that copied superior Black artists? Yep. Are we gonna deny my mans had pipes? Nah nah we not doing that.

 

[Sbp]

Time. His status only really declined in the 2000s but so has the Beatles' Gen Z doesn't have the same admiration for the Beatles that Gen X and early Millenials did.

 

[Redwood]

Dope to see the Beatles gettin love on the Coli



Those cats invented hard rock/metal with "Helter Skelter"

The tailend of I Want You tops that:

 

[African Peasant]

It's a matter of generation. People who really lived and loved Elvis are dead. beetles sans are still alive and making some noise.

Elvis came out early 50’s Beatles was mid 60’s … no color TV, no Woodstock, establishing society after WW2 not trusting overseas shyt… that 10 year start difference is big… also members of Beatles are still alive and or lived into the 2000’s… Elvis expired in the mid 70’s…he came up during black and white TV and died 20 years after his first hit… not a long run way

Yep.

 

[Budda]

Listen to music before The Beatles, then listen to music after The Beatles. That's why. Say what you want about them, but The Beatles practically created modern music. It's like how The Simpsons influenced modern humor. Watch The Simpsons in its golden years and you'll see just how far ahead of the curb it was compared to other TV comedies of its time.

@IllmaticDelta

 

[African Peasant]

If I had no other choice, I'd rather go to an Elvis concert than a Beattles's one

Listen to music before The Beatles, then listen to music after The Beatles. That's why. Say what you want about them, but The Beatles practically created modern music. It's like how The Simpsons influenced modern humor. Watch The Simpsons in its golden years and you'll see just how far ahead of the curb it was compared to other TV comedies of its time.

 

[Skooby]

Listen to music before The Beatles, then listen to music after The Beatles. That's why. Say what you want about them, but The Beatles practically created modern music. It's like how The Simpsons influenced modern humor. Watch The Simpsons in its golden years and you'll see just how far ahead of the curb it was compared to other TV comedies of its time.

Modern music for whom?

The Motown era created modern music.

 

[Address_Unknown]

The Elvis slander in this thread. Was he a weirdo groomer that copied superior Black artists? Yep. Are we gonna deny my mans had pipes? Nah nah we not doing that.

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The only version of Elvis I fukk with is the drug addled/sequined jumpsuit era where he wasn't needed to be a conduit to cash in on Black soul for racist white audiences. I'd even go as to so far to say than when he was sober (enough) some of his best work came from the Vegas era.​

 

[Van Cleef]

cus the beatles raw asl

 

[BlackAchilles]

Col Tom sabatoged his career; after he made Elvis join the Army he had him purposely do safe, commercial music and generic movies, while the Beatles were exploring and expanding their sound

 

[Peter Parker]

Modern music for whom?

Don’t turn this into some dumb shyt, for all artists using modern recording practices. They invented sampling for Christ sake.

you know how in FL or any DAW you set everything to different tracks and edit and piece things from there? That’s multitrack recording, the Beatles popularized that

 

[Swahili P'Bitek]

Don’t turn this into some dumb shyt, for all artists using modern recording practices. They invented sampling for Christ sake.

you know how in FL or any DAW you set everything to different tracks and edit and piece things from there? That’s multitrack recording, the Beatles popularized that

Come on, that is what you gauge in creating "modern music" little richard and them man then are gods man. The phrasing of that sentence was and will always be wrong.

 

[Cakebatter]

Elvis represents the Silent Generation, while the Beatles represents Boomers. Elvis is more likely to grouped in with artists like Little Richard and Fats Domino, while the Beatles get grouped in with acts like the Rolling Stones and the Who.

 

[Big Blue]

Could be because Beetles are seen as innovators and true artists, while Elvis is seen as performer that stole styles and became a parody in his later years

Couldn't have said better

 

[RickyDiBiase]

Never cared for either, but fukk Elvis especially