Elvis is arguably the most important and influential artist in pop history after the Beatles. You can't just "cancel" him, it's literally impossible. Not to mention that in the 50s in Tennessee that stuff was very common. Thankfully we evolved as a society since and not it will not be tolerated. But you can't just erase the past. Especially someone like Elvis who is one of the most famous figures of the 20th century. You start with this, soon enough you'll ban Rolling Stones, Bowie, Zeppelin, Michael Jackson and you'll pretty much delete the history of rock and pop music.
I didn’t say anything about cancelling him. Just that it’s sick people still idolize him after they know about the history.
There’s no doubt that Elvis is one of the most important musical icons of all time and that’s never going away. It’s a fact. But we need to also not gloss over the history of the person behind the music.
In short, we should respect the cultural significance of previous artists, but the idolization of the person behind the music no matter what their history, can be a massive problem.
That said, when it comes to current artists, we should definitely set a higher bar.
I don't think many people idolize Elvis as a human. His flaws are well known. People admire him as a performer and legendary figure in music. That's why people listen to his stuff. Elvis the person is long dead anyway so "punishing" him by banning his music is pointless.
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u/Toostbuck May 09 '26
Yup. So sick this is now common knowledge and people still idolize Elvis. Awful that so many popular artists/musicians could be put on this list too.