Like a pile of percocet on a fried peanut butter and banana sandwich, “Suspicious Minds” might go down easily but it packs a punch. For late period Elvis schlock it is actually among the most affecting songs “the King” ever made. It was adult and confused, and he sang it like a person who’d been wronged by love(not to mention the fickle taste of the public) before.
Today is the day that Elvis Presley died of course. One imagines he literally could not go on with his Suspicious mind, bent on drugs, bloated and unhealthy. I for one am a big fan of those later year performances if for no other reason than the reaching and cloying for the fame and adoration of his early years almost made these performances more honest. Gone was a guy thrust into a position of an object of fear, replaced with a guy that just wanted to be loved and wanted to be able to trust.
“Suspicious Minds” has one of the strangest fade outs in pop music because as it slowly fades out it briefly and jarringly comes back pushing forward a sense of infinite refrains (“We’re caught in a trap…”) following ol’ Elvis into his grave.
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