tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6956070.post108938165695323014..comments2023-11-03T11:37:13.579-04:00Comments on Something Old, Nothing New: Why I Don't Dig DylanJaime J. Weinmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15128500411119962998noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6956070.post-1152424562928282842006-07-09T01:56:00.000-04:002006-07-09T01:56:00.000-04:00Your views on Dylan seem to show that you have not...Your views on Dylan seem to show that you have not spent a lot of time analysing his songs. Rather than being sloppy and pointless, examples of bad craftsmanship, they are usually in fact highly meticulous. If you had also read the book in question (which you clearly didn't) you would probably be more aware of this. What you consider to be Dylan's 'bad rhymes' are in fact examples of dissonance in songwriting, which is something that was not, as you point out, done before his time. But it's just as pointless to argue that all art since the 1860s is full of bad craft, simply because you don't appreciate the freedom given to form, colour and geometry. Likewise, modern poetry has known since the 1870s that you don't need to always rhyme to create a good poem. What Dylan did was liberate the rigid structures of songwriting. Whether or not that enabled lesser talents to write is not a criticism of him. Your position is conservative to the extreme, and more importantly is insensitive to the very things that make art exciting. The rules of art need to be broken or bent a little, if art is to make any progress at all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com