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If you could go back in time and stop any one person or group's musical career, who or what would it be? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This isn't a "go back in time and assassinate" someone question. It's just their musical career never takes off and thus any music they ever would have made is no longer in this timeline.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Nothing.

Elvis didn't invent anything musically, he was just the first white guy to do what Black guys had been doing.

If it wasn't Elvis, it would have been someone else a couple months later.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Actually, that was one thing I considered. If he hadn't become a superstar by never writing a single song, would it have changed the industry's thoughts on using pretty faces to sell other people's songs?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

“Though I'm not the first king of controversy
I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley
To do Black music so selfishly
And use it to get myself wealthy (Hey!)
There's a concept that works
Twenty million other white rappers emerge
But no matter how many fish in the sea
It'd be so empty without me” - Eminem

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago

Well maybe he was the one with the charisma to do what black guys were doing.