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Originally Posted by bhutocracy
Please don't compare talentless hacks like Elvis that had most of their material written for them with real artists of today like TV on the Radio, Sufjan Stevens, Fleet Foxes, Sigur Ros etc etc. He's nothing more than the Britney Spears of his generation. A pretty face with an ok voice that producers fed other people's songs through.
I wouldn't parade your inability to find good music and complain about not being forcefed anything good. Were the Pixies, Dead Kennedy's, Jane's Addiction popular and accessible in the 80's? Do you still listen to popular 90's bands? Still rocking on to Pearl Jam? Were they anything other than a completely traditional guitar band marketed under "alternative"? bleh.
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Hah nice try, but Elvis was the shit in his early years before he got all fat and boring / Vegas etc., he wasn't that special as Jerry Lee Lewis, the killer had much more balls than him, but check Ed O'Sullivan show from 1955 and you'll love Elvis, he had far too much charisma not to become what he became.
That's the same like if you said Beatles were pretty faces with an ok voice, and maybe they were and it was Brian Epstein who made them big, but who cares? Weren't they remarkable?
No I don't listen to Pearl Jam anymore, it's a closed chapter and if recording new music was banned today, there there's still enough good stuff to explore for hundreds of years if you look for good music outside of genres.
Let me get back to the fact that we're discussing the pop scene of today, what's available in media, what's on MTV, we're discussing this idiotic display of inability to put out anything original apart from more audio effects, more sweaty ebony asses or more golden chains.
It's actually quite similar to the pop scene of the 80's with all the new romance shit and crazy colours, crazy hairstyles, silly lyrics and way too much energy.