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"I like Jailhouse Rock and Love Me Tender. The black-and-white films. With music, I tend more toward the '70s stuff because I was at the shows for those, so they bring back memories"

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Nostalgia is doing the curating here, and it’s choosy in a revealing way. Lisa Marie Presley isn’t ranking Elvis like a critic; she’s mapping him by the versions of him that feel livable from inside the family story. The black-and-white films - Jailhouse Rock, Love Me Tender - are “safe” Elvis: cleanly framed, canonized, already sealed in a mid-century glow. Black-and-white isn’t just an aesthetic preference; it’s a signal of distance. Those movies belong to history, not to her childhood. They let her admire the myth without having to negotiate the mess of proximity.

Then she pivots: “With music, I tend more toward the ’70s stuff.” That’s the private timeline asserting itself over the public one. For most fans, the ’70s Elvis can be complicated - Vegas excess, bloat, decline narratives stapled to the jumpsuits. For her, it’s sensory memory: “I was at the shows for those.” The line quietly flips the usual critical hierarchy. The era the culture often treats as the epilogue becomes, for her, the primary text because it contains her own presence. She’s not just listening; she’s time-traveling.

The subtext is a daughter’s pragmatic relationship to an overexposed icon: you keep what you can keep. Films provide a controlled image; concerts return a lived moment. Underneath the casual tone is an elegant claim of agency: she gets to choose her Elvis, not the one the world insists on.

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Presley, Lisa Marie. (2026, January 17). I like Jailhouse Rock and Love Me Tender. The black-and-white films. With music, I tend more toward the '70s stuff because I was at the shows for those, so they bring back memories. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-like-jailhouse-rock-and-love-me-tender-the-61110/

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Presley, Lisa Marie. "I like Jailhouse Rock and Love Me Tender. The black-and-white films. With music, I tend more toward the '70s stuff because I was at the shows for those, so they bring back memories." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-like-jailhouse-rock-and-love-me-tender-the-61110/.

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"I like Jailhouse Rock and Love Me Tender. The black-and-white films. With music, I tend more toward the '70s stuff because I was at the shows for those, so they bring back memories." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-like-jailhouse-rock-and-love-me-tender-the-61110/. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.

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Lisa Marie Presley (born February 1, 1968) is a Musician from USA.

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