Re: why do you think elvis is not bigger?

lazuli777@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> He's plenty big. Yes, his singing voice is a big part of it. What's
> ironic is his recent albums have been pretty well received, they have
> been fairly good, but let's not mistake any of them for his first
> several. That's when his fans hung on every word & he seemed like a guy
> really on the edge. Now, he's mainstream and though he is still good,
> his lyrics aren't anywhere as interesting as his first albums. he wrote
> about the world, now he just writes about lost love and related, and
> he's done it to death. Doesn't sound that fresh no matter what the
> genre.

I have to disagree about him being plenty big. I saw him recently at
Blossom in Cuyahoga Falls (one of the best concerts ever, by the way)
which is a fairly large venue but just a small fraction of the seats
were filled. I also disagree that his current songs aren't as
interesting. One of my theories why he's not as big as he deserves is
that it takes a bit of intelligence to decipher what he's saying. For
example, "International Echo": I don't think most people would
understand what he's saying in that song. I think you have to at least
be paying a little bit of attention to what's really going on in the
world and have somewhat of a higher education to get it. I also think
it's just as interesting as anything from his past.