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gedienstig -> RE: King of Pop or King of Rock? (6/28/2010 9:26:23 AM)
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In Moonwalker MJ transformed into a car, a space ship, a robot and a black man. No Elvis movie could top that, imho.
So
Elvis 2 - MJ 4
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I mean, if I HAD to......it would be Elvis, but only by a tiny margin, and not in any way because I think he was "better" than MJ. It's just the genre of music I would drift toward.
Well, I think is what it boils down to. Both were revolutionary artists in their own. Elvis revolutionized performance the first time, Michael rode on the upcoming popularity of MTV and revolutionized video clips, and world tour shows. So I don't think you can say one was better than the other (also hard to compare different time periods), just which type of music suits you more.
To me, Michael was the Jesus of our time though. Already famous and destined as a child for greatness, then he gained amazing popularity, used that popularity for a "message of peace", then we turned against the messenger of peace and did a lot of nasty stuff which we might as well not have done to such a nice person, then they die, and after their death, their message all of a sudden springs back to life, and the adversaries once again become the followers.
I discovered this parallel during a shroom trip though, just to explain you the state in which I believed this to be true ;-)
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