Mehmood Curmally

The fact that there is an Elvis Presley tribute gig scheduled in the city this week made us wonder, how relevant is Elvis in the 21st century? We remember that even when we were in our early teens in the 1990s, the American sensation's songs were a gateway into western music for a lot of our peers. But then the Internet took off, and music consumption patterns went through a sea change. A glut of electronic sounds were churned out from the factory lines of music production companies, and EDM artistes became the industry's darlings. So, given the times that we live in, where does Elvis really fit in?