Why is Elvis the only artist who ever gets any shit for not writing his own songs? No one ever complains about Frank Sinatra never writing his own songs. Whitney Houston didn't, Celine Dion didn't, even modern artists like Rhianna don't. Is it just because Elvis was the biggest so that makes him an easier target? I just never understood the hypocrisy of criticizing someone for something while letting everyone else get a pass.
Yeah. Everyone is just jealous of him.
some people criticize all of them for not writing their songs, except maybe frank sinatra because that was just the norm at the time
>except maybe frank sinatra because that was just the norm at the time
it was the same in Elvis' era too. The 1950's was when the singer/songwriter type started to take off but it was still more common for artists to perform songs other people wrote. That was the norm for the entirety of the first half of the 20th century.
Because Elvis is rock and that's a rockist standard that developed after rock separated from pop, so people retroactively apply that standard to Elvis even though it's stupid to do so.
The guy had like 5 Rock songs
>songs
You misspelled albums.
It's because Elvis was recontextualized as "punk" combined with general rockist ignorance of the music industry and practices of non-rock musics.
>It's because Elvis was recontextualized as "punk" combined with
Jerry Lee Lewis was more punk than him tbqh.
Blacks and white music nerds seethe at him because he was the biggest selling artist for a long time, and dat posed to be a bleck person, not a honkey.
I mean even without Elvis, The Beatles were white. Even without The Beatles, Michael Jackson was white,
Elvis and Eminem are proof that no matter how much black ass you kiss and no matter how many black people you help, you're still going to be demonized, so don't bother
I thought black people as a whole accept Eminem as the GOAT nowadays or at least that's what I see these kids on youtube say
Definitely not. He gets loads of hate from them, which is partly understandable because he hasn't dropped a good album in twenty years, but neither has Nas and he doesn't get a hundredth of the hate so I reckon the Eminem hate is racially motivated.
>but neither has Nas
That's just a blatant lie. His last 3 albums are incredible.
Suspicious Minds is one of the greatest songs of all time.
True
>as if anyone still thinks about anything Elvis ever
except you apparently
Funny enough I just came from this thread
what do you mean OP? Elvis originally wrote all of these hits
success breeds jealousy
its not enough he died on the toilet, they also need to hurt his legacy
No one shits on Elvis for not writing songs