re: Was there a more pretentious rocker than Kurt Cobain?

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what way was Elvis pretentious?

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I mean, he called himself the King, acted like he was God's gift to women, fancied himself as some kind of law man, karate expert, and he was copying his act from Chuck Berry and a lot of others.


Now let's look at the definition of pretentious:

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attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed.

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I think the shoe fits. Look I'm not an expert on Elvis. But I don't consider it a great insult to say a musician is pretentious. They probably never get famous if they aren't. It's not like I called him a jive turkey.