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- - - - Full of hip and swang
        This song is closely related to Elvis's career and what he prioritise as a singer: luxuries.
        When he presented that it's okay to take away everything except the blue suede shoes, we can see how much Elvis loves to indulge the self-pride of having a luxury good, representing himself.
    - - In 1956 America, it was also the year that saw explosive clashes all across the South, between African Americans, who were determined to overthrow Jim Crow. From this cultural context, we can assume that the song is criticising how White people are only caring about their luxury life, whereas African Americans are under oppression. - though Elvis Presley himself might not intend to criticise such situation.
  - - - Number forty-seven said to number three
        "You're the cutest jailbird I ever did see" - Considering how there were only men in the music video, it is assumed that this sentence is said between the same sex. Bring in the social issue/topic of LGBT?
      - Brings out the soul of excitement from/of the prisoners.
        
        Very abnormal behavior
        
        Choreography looks unorganized, but at the end, is organized
        
        Their upper garment was prison uniform
        
        It breaks the stereotype of a 'prison' where we perceive it as a dark and gloomy place with no hope. Another fixed idea towards jail is that prisoners shouldn't express their enthusiasm and should remain calm .
        
        There is a 'rock' party being held in jail.
        
        WHy did ELvis go to Jail? Elvis, who spoke of his twin throughout his life, grew up an only child in a poor family. His father, Vernon, worked a series of odd jobs, and in 1938 was sentenced to three years in prison for forging a $4 check (he spent less than a year behind bars).
  - - - The music video has taken in mono tone, and Elvis is singing with a rhythm of some sort with foot steps (maybe he's dancing...?)
        
        not an official music video but just a clip from a show
    - - sounds as if the singer is regarding the "hound dog" visitor as a dog
        
        can't catch rabbits = no purpose
        
        'just a hound dog' that does/could not bring rabbits for him
        
        hound dog:
        (n) any of several breeds of dog used for hunting typically having large drooping ears.
        (adj) describing anyone of a macho or casanovic templar in the sense that they are flirting or whipping up a storm with the ladies.
    - - were some small but significant lyrical and musical changes in the process
        
        original lyrics: You ain't nothing but a hound dog, Been snoopin' round my door, You can wag your tail, But I ain't gonna feed you no more.
        the line basically suggests that the singer will no longer reward her "hound dog" visitor with sex.
        
        some said that this line was inappropriate for mainstream audiences. So, Freddie Bell, of Freddie Bell and the Bellboys, rewrote it, along with a few others
        
        was recorded by Elvis Presley in what Rolling Stone labeled rock and roll's "declaration of independence."
      - originally written and recorded as a conventional 12-bar blues song, written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and sung by Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton
- - - - K D Lang does not act or look like a stereotypical 1990's female singer. She has short hair, and at first listen has the same voice range as Roy, her duet partner
  - - - Human and divine are opposite
      - The singer has a similar vibe that Evis has. The performance's atmosphere seems to be influenced by Elvis.