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2857271, I know, and I responded to it.
Posted by mrhood75, Thu Nov-21-13 10:52 AM
>I'm not completely on Austin's side, but I think the
>greatness of the video is being grossly overstated, and the
>targeted nature of it is being understated. This was a viral
>video from conception aimed at getting people to interact with
>the visuals not the song. The visuals are a nice commentary
>of modern society but I'm not exactly sure how they tie into
>the song itself.

And honestly, that's not really the point. It's a video for Bob Dylan's music, not **that*** particular song. And I'm fine with that. They could have done this exact same video for "Mr. Tamborine Man" or "It Ain't Me, Babe", and I would have reacted the same. Because, again, the point of the video is that Dylan's music is timeless and relevant no matter what setting you view it in. So buy the Box Set.

The song is almost a narrative and while
>admittedly I haven't played with it enough to know for sure,
>my guess is that there isn't necessarily a narrative happening
>in any of them. There's a stylistic attempt to represent all
>of the scenes as if they were playing out in their natural
>environment which means nobody is acting actively engaged with
>the words they are mouthing, etc.

LOL. I love "Like a Rolling Stone" more than 99.5% of all recorded music, but it's not a song that requires a narrative story. The message is essentially, "You think you're all that, but you're not." God knows their have been videos for this song that have tried to capture the "narrative" of they've sucked. See: The Rolling Stones video for their cover of this song. This is version is far, FAR superior.

>It comes off as novelty which is the viralist agenda. There's
>concept in it but IMO it isn't executed in a way that goes
>above and beyond the song on its own.

I don't even know what "viralist agenda" means. It's a video that's being used to help sell a box set, like all videos are used to try to sell albums.