In 7th and 8th grade I suddenly decided I was sick of letting my parents have it easy by being responsible, and (looking back) started to be extremely obnoxious. I was the typical moody early teen who was REALLY into bad screamy music with indiscernible lyrics (enough to blast out your eardrums several times over), with a few good bands thrown in there occasionally. I decided that just about anything on the radio was wayyy too mainstream for me, and anything that would make my parents cringe and want to angrily shut off the music in the car was genuinely great stuff.
My point to all this? It makes a lot of sense that Elvis was so popular when parents weren't so fond of him. Obviously thats not the only reason he went down in history, but seeing as how teenagers tend to be an extremely influential age group (in terms of marketing), its funny that the same principle had the exact same effect over 50 years ago.
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yeah dude. i totally catch your drift. i would be all over that rebellion thing for elvis anyday. i still do it. freshman year i was totlaly emo, and occasionally listened to screamo. my parents hated it, whose wouldnt. but i totally defied authoriy. how cool was i? good thing i got over that....
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