Torchy Windrush Brown
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Chapman’s “legacy is being overwritten in real-time.” He thought about how Big Mama Thornton’s “Hound Dog” was consumed by Elvis Presley......along with endless other examples of the “White male genius” archetype that often receives credit for songs by Black artists.
12:34 PM - Jul 13, 2023
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Goose
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In response to Torchy Windrush Brown.
The thing about Elvis and Hound Dog is that he took a song written for Big Mama Thornton and covered not her version, but a shitty novelty parody that had already erased all hint of what was amazing about her, and he sold 20 times as many records doing it. So many layers of insult added to injury.
05:04 PM - Jul 13, 2023
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Torchy Windrush Brown
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It is clearly a song to be sung by a woman to a man. His version never made sense to me.
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07:45 PM - Jul 13, 2023
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Goose
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In response to Torchy Windrush Brown.
For sure. And the fact that the approach he took to reversing it was a song being sung to a literal dog has some serious baked-in misogyny.
08:11 PM - Jul 13, 2023
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