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Discussion: Is the current US pop scene so lacking compared to the UK's?
Member Since: 2/24/2012
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No, as long as the US has Katy Perry.
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Member Since: 4/9/2012
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Originally posted by RobynYoBank
The Beatles were originally inspired by and built in the image of Elvis Presley, who was at the time the most successful music star of all time.
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No, The Beatles and Elvis are in two different lanes. They were definitely not built int he image of Elvis.
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Member Since: 6/19/2012
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Originally posted by superben
No, as long as the US has Katy Perry.
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Katy is relatively uninteresting compared to some of the artists I listed.
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Member Since: 10/30/2011
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Originally posted by HausOfJabril
I see that all of those act have had huge impact but they still don't compare.
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The Beatles, Michael and Elvis are the trinity of legends tbh, Madonna might join them down the road but we'll see.
The Beatles were a way more talented/respected version of today's boybands so of course the craze they created was bigger than what a solo artist could create but it lasted very few years as it happens now with boybands. They're all legendary though.
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Member Since: 3/3/2011
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Originally posted by HausOfJabril
No, The Beatles and Elvis are in two different lanes. They were definitely not built int he image of Elvis.
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Yes, they were. And they talked about Elvis being their musical and visual inspiration much early in their career. Have you listened to their first few albums?
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Originally posted by HausOfJabril
I don't think that's completely true.
The Beatles - ???
Pink Floyd - ???
I don't believe that the UK produces the only good artist, I was just responding to your last claim.
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Elvis, Michael Jackson, Eagles, Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder, Madonna, Barbra Streisand. We can honestly do this all day. UK are more notable for bands and in the US, more so for individual artists.
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Member Since: 11/13/2011
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Originally posted by Eaten By Lions
I think we're due for a new, fun pop girl.
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Cece Frey is the only really promising new pop girl.
Ke$ha was the last newbie to really hit it "big" without being a one hit wonder.
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Member Since: 6/19/2012
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but yall i'm talking about current pop artists ;_;
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Member Since: 5/3/2012
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Katy Perry, Ke$ha, and Lady Gaga are all >>> than the ones in the OP though. Adele came on the scene in 2007, by the way.
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Member Since: 6/19/2012
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Originally posted by gettsleazy
Cece Frey is the only really promising new pop girl.
Ke$ha was the last newbie to really hit it "big" without being a one hit wonder.
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cece?
are you for real right now?
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Member Since: 4/9/2012
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Originally posted by RobynYoBank
Yes, they were. And they talked about Elvis being their musical and visual inspiration much early in their career. Have you listened to their first few albums?
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I remember the interview of them after they met Elvis but they've never said that they were built off the image of Elvis. Yes, I have.
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Originally posted by Glam
The Beatles, Michael and Elvis are the trinity of legends tbh, Madonna might join them down the road but we'll see.
The Beatles were a way more talented/respected version of today's boybands so of course the craze they created was bigger than what a solo artist could create but it lasted very few years as it happens now with boybands. They're all legendary though.
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Well, it lasted for about 10 years because that's how long they stayed together but "1" is the best-selling album of the millennium.
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Member Since: 4/9/2012
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Originally posted by Artemisia
but yall i'm talking about current pop artists ;_;
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Yeah, okay. I'll stop.
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Member Since: 10/29/2011
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uk >>>>
always one step ahead.
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Member Since: 6/19/2012
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Originally posted by liberalmusiclover;13353707[B
]Katy Perry, Ke$ha, and Lady Gaga are all >>> [/B]than the ones in the OP though. Adele came on the scene in 2007, by the way.
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Maybe lady gaga, but the others... sis... katy and kesha make great bops but they aren't that interesting.
and I thought 19 came out in 2008? or was music from it out in 2007? Wasn't really checking for her back then.
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Member Since: 5/8/2012
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Both are lacking because Lykke Li isn't slaying in those countries tbh
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Member Since: 6/19/2012
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Originally posted by Katamari
Both are lacking because Lykke Li isn't slaying in those countries tbh
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i need a new album in 2013
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Member Since: 3/13/2011
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I think Sky Ferreira might actually have a chance for 2013 domination. The popular sound is shifting to more acoustic and gutair/piano oriented... Also she is giving 90's retro realness and I can see that working in her favor...
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Member Since: 6/19/2012
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Originally posted by I RUN L.A.
I think Sky Ferreira might actually have a chance for 2013 domination. The popular sound is shifting to more acoustic and gutair/piano oriented... Also she is giving 90's retro realness and I can see that working in her favor... Just as Lana did with her retro realness.
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She needs to do more work with Dev Hynes. He produced Everything is Embarrassing, which ****ing slays. That sound works so well for her, a lot more than that electropop **** she was trying for some time
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I still don't get the basis of this thread though. The UK is ahead of the US because they have more artists that are mainstream there?
I'm sure there are plenty of non mainstream artists in the US that are just as talented as the ones listen in the OP.
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Member Since: 3/3/2011
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Originally posted by HausOfJabril
I remember the interview of them after they met Elvis but they've never said that they were built off the image of Elvis. Yes, I have.
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The Beatles' earliest influences include Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Little Richard and Chuck Berry.
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If rock and roll had to be summed up in a phrase, it would be the "combination of black and white American music."
That is why Elvis Presley is considered the King. He took the musical styles of gospel, rhythm and blues, and country and western and combined them all into what is labeled "rock and roll." On top of that, he had youth, sex appeal and attitude.
Elvis was one-of-a-kind in the sense that very few performers were able to incorporate the two musical cultures into an explosive combination.
Enter the Beatles.
As teenagers, The Beatles, especially John Lennon, were strongly influenced by Elvis Presley. They started wearing their hair slicked back like Elvis. They admired his rebelliousness and his appeal to women, not to mention his musical talent.
"Before Elvis, there was nothing. Without Elvis, there would be no Beatles," John Lennon said.
As depicted in the 2010 film, Nowhere Boy, Lennon was inspired to create his first band the Quarrymen after discovering Elvis. He even asks his mother, Julia, "Why can't God make me Elvis?"
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Paul McCartney has declared Elvis Presley as one of significant influences behind The Beatles 'Sgt Pepper' album.
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But perhaps the greatest of L.A.’s rock ’n’ roll tête-à-têtes occurred on a still summer night in 1965, high up in the rarefied climes of Bel Air. There, in a splendid home on Perugia Way, Elvis met the Beatles.
Or more precisely, the Beatles met Elvis. When the group traveled to the U.S. in 1964, they frequently cited Elvis as a major influence.
At one point, Lennon leaned over and asked Schilling to deliver a message to Elvis. “He said, ‘I didn’t have the nerve to tell Elvis this last night,” Schilling recalls, “but you see these sideburns? I almost got kicked out of school for trying to look like him. Tell Elvis that if it hadn’t been for him, I wouldn’t be here.’
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Take the statement as seriously as you want, but he was the original influence. These are just a handful of quotes; there are many more. They performed several Elvis covers and their early music was heavily inspired by him. Indeed, they were very interested in being him.
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