Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Subversive Elvis

I can't really think what might have shown greater integrity for a man accused*, in his youth, of being a "nigger lover" - and be more subversive - than to make eyes damp in the Las Vegas of the 1970s singing this song, In The Ghetto. We have a black man with a gun and attitude seen as an "angry young man" driven by hunger of a very much non-metaphorical kind.




*Not that he ever seemed particularly concerned by, or even interested in, those accusations.

2 comments:

Mark Wadsworth said...

The song is sublimely cheesy, but is the closest thing that citizen's income/drug legalisation campaigners have to a national anthem. Elvis had the whole problem nailed forty years ago.

kellie said...

That look he gave at the end...