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2857291, RE: I know, and I responded to it. Posted by mrhood75, Thu Nov-21-13 12:03 PM
>Good that it's not a problem for you, but it is one for me. >The interchangablity of the song treats it like it's >disposable IMO.
Again, I think of it as target to whole of Dylan's music, than one particular song. This just happens to be his most "iconic" song.
>I didn't get that at all. Well buy the boxset sure. But >relevant no matter what setting? Nah... didn't get that at >all. More like it was irrelevant in all of the settings, >evident by the fact it could have been replaced with another >song in all of them to the same effect.
See above.
>It didn't have to be narrative, but it didn't even touch on >your take of the message. It doesn't touch on anything except >playing on our addiction to TV. Sure there can be a round >about line drawn there, but again replace it with another song >and it still works so that wasn't the point.
I think the message in the juxtaposition of the videos plays very well into what a lot of Dylan's music has been about. Like, if you watch the stand-in BBC channel, it's all about how Occupy is back, there's rioting in the streets, there's a crisis with the Affordable Healthcare Act, someone get stabbed in Chelsea, and there's a massive hurricane forming off the East Coast. That plays against watching a goofy light-weight romantic comedy and a stupid Bachelor-esque show. Even contrasting a very young Bob Dylan doing a very angry performance of this song with Danny Brown's happy-go-lucky interpretation of it goes hand-in-hand with Dylan's overall message.
>Sorry I work in the field, where we pitch this type of schwag >all the time. Viralist agenda meaning the whole point of it >is to create a novelty factor that doesn't just make people >want to watch but engage and share, then attach a brand to it. > It is quite often off brand so as not to distract the user >with the messaging heavy handed but at the end of the day the >brand is pretty clear and they are associated with the >cleverness of it all. Dylan is the brand here. No different >than if its Domino's Pizza.
Well, they're trying to sell a box set. And honestly, this video seems pretty on-brand for Dylan. His whole brand isn't that he doesn't have a brand. Or at least that he's not the brand you're looking for, babe.
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