I must confess that when Fidel spoke despectively about “elvispreslians”, I felt a conflict within me because since I was a kid, I loved both Elvis and his songs. I felt that more than the music itself, Fidel wanted to criticize the old youth in Cuba, those that did not think like he did. It was a truly awkward moment for me, but I was able to get over it, perhaps because my political hierarchies were always more mature than my musical ones...

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I must confess that when Fidel spoke despectively about “elvispreslians”, I felt a conflict within me because since I was a kid, I loved both Elvis and his songs. I felt that more than the music itself, Fidel wanted to criticize the old youth in Cuba, those that did not think like he did. It was a truly awkward moment for me, but I was able to get over it, perhaps because my political hierarchies were always more mature than my musical ones..." in the context of "Silvio Rodríguez, Cuban musician, widely considered his country's folk singer and arguably one of Latin America's greatest singer-songwriters, explaining why he chose, at age 15, to continue being a follower of Fidel Castro in spite of the latter's opinion of Elvis followers, like he was, and of rock music in general, as published in Cuba Debate on August 14, 2017." to mean that wisdom is timeless.