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lilacerull0 · 4 months ago

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As a Bob Dylan fan, what are your thoughts on "A Simple Desultory Philippic" by Simon and Garfunkel? (I love it. 😂)

it's honestly one of my favourite tracks from that album because every bob dylan fan knows bob dylan is better off with a song or 2 like that one *looks at bowie's a song for bob dylan* and i can say manyyy profound things about the way i feel about it now, but i feel like what i thought about it in my most obnoxious teenage times is wayyy more interesting which is: i love this song because i too would have a song like this written about me if only my enemies were as poetic and sophisticated as s&g are so i shall imagine that my enemies are these guys my mother has an insane obsession with (and she interestingly has an insane obsession with bobby too so maybe i should ask HER about this, hers is the answer you want for this one) because that scenario could actually stylistically blend with the modern hamlet take i perceive my life as.

#i honestly think there is bob dylan and there is The Mythological American Icon Bob Dylan #and he has been there even before electric dylan controversy. it actually made electric dylan controversy HAPPEN in the first place #and this song is about that mythological bob dylan #but it's a loop anyways because that Bob Dylan (no additional remarks) is built on mythology too... so you can't really escape this #there is no real dylan. there is only being as desultory as dylan to be able to hear yourself and the world #you either hear it or you don't there is no message to decode or a leader to follow. it's like religion to me in many ways. musicianship.#i actually think bowie came the closest to understanding this concept of there being No Real Artist #and that's probably due to him being so reluctant to perform his own things and being such a... fan of things continuously and to his core #like there is the god people make out of a musician there is a god the musician thinks they're being turned into #and they god they see themselves as and then... there is the song. you know?#i am not making any sense i sound like drunk almost famous russell #i mean i did have a drink. to be fair.#HOPE I AM GETTING SOMETHING ACROSS JDKSJFKD #💌restless wind inside a letter box💌#the point is only the song is authentic. only the song is true.#and raising an eyebrow on another's song even if only as a half-joke is Authentic. to me.

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