Did Elvis have as big of an impact on rock as people say he did? What's your take?

Did Elvis have as big of an impact on rock as people say he did? What's your take?

justin beiber before justin beiber

He was THE biggest celebrity in America. That was unheard of for rock n roll in the 50s.

he stole music from the superior Black man

we invented rock and all popular music today except for classical. thats all you have lol and it aint shit no one likes that shit other than old stuffy ass clown ass niggas

we wuz musicans n shiiet

>Did Elvis have as big of an impact on rock as people say he did? What's your take?

Yes.

Like it or not, a big part of rock is performance and charisma, and Elvis had both at a level rarely seen.

Great fuckin' voice, too.

Was he the most musically gifted and innovative artist in rock at the time? Obviously not. But he was rock's greatest ambassador who inspired a generation (I can't imagine what it must've been like to hear Elvis's voice sear through the stereo in the 50's when all a kid would've been exposed to in a typical household was Guy Lombardo and Lawrence Welk).

shit that housewives listened to in the 50s
no seriously music listener takes his garbage serious

>Did Elvis have as big of an impact on rock as people say he did? What's your take?
no new hat new

WE

>shit that housewives listened to in the 50s

Now we have the retard opinion.

considering he was the first person to ever make rock and roll, I'd say yeah... he had a pretty big impact on it

Not directly but he did encourage a lot of young artists to pursue music for their careers like Neil Young and John Lennon.

And cultural appropriation is something we shouldn't do, right? If one culture is more advanced in any field it's automatically wrong to adopt their superior cultural elements? Or is it only wrong when white people do it?

fuck white people.

elvis made rock mainstream, also the mafia bribing radio stations.

Actually rock was about to die near the end of the 50's, but then a bunch of britlads with mop tops appeared and gave it a second wind

Doo wop >>> rock

Doo wop and blues = the REAL shit the OG shit
Plus Chuck Berry and Lil Richard
That's what Elvis stole from, and Beatles, and Led Zeppelin, Buddy Holly, and other racists stole from.

And it was all 100% Black. It was the music of Jim Crow, of slavery, of segregation, of oppression. It's the music of our people and our soul. And you stole it like you stole us from our homeland of Africa. We created your music but it's just another thing Blacks invented that whites take credit for.

>And it was all 100% Black. It was the music of Jim Crow, of slavery, of segregation, of oppression. It's the music of our people and our soul. And you stole it like you stole us from our homeland of Africa. We created your music but it's just another thing Blacks invented that whites take credit for.
Lol black people are beta as fuck

yeah because the Queen had Buddy Holly and Eddie Cochran killed

>Trip
>Lazy baiting
I'm not surprised.

Elvis created rock. Everyone knows this.

White people inventions: antibiotics, the internet, the air plane, the automobile, cell phones


Black people inventions: the stanky leg

Two things:

1. Elvis was white
2. He had sex appeal

Most of the early rock and rollers were black and just plain...weird. Little Richard wasn't exactly the kind of guy that girls throw themselves at. But here this impossibly good-looking white boy with a voice bordering on pornography came along and made millions of teenage girls collectively wet themselves. And because he was white, he made this black music style ok for white people to like.

little Richard is super effeminate and im pretty sure he is a deep in the closet gay man, which probably would have been tough being a nigger faggot in the 50's

>deep in the closet

if he's DEEP in the closet, what's shallow in the closet look like?

My dad said he never met a female Chuck Berry or Little Richard fan.

>deep in the closet
literally everybody knows

"Would you believe it, I remember a time before there was rock-and-roll. Music was just...Rosemary Clooney and Eddie Fisher, and then one day along comes Bill Haley, Chuck Berry, and Elvis, and it was like 'This is rock-and-roll'."

>Little Richard wasn't exactly the kind of guy that girls throw themselves at
bruh

Dude was a fruity looking fag and black in 1950s Amerikkka. Come on.