Sunday, March 6, 2011

Bob Dylan - Most Likely You'll Go Your Way



I found this great Dylan video that I thought would be perfect to share. It's clearly a retrospective time-line of Dylan, and a few things came to mind: One, at 0:47, there's a shot of a newspaper in the trash, showing a sub-headline that reads "Dylan Goes Electric," while the main headline is about the troops in the Vietnam War. I thought this was clever, specifically because of Dylan's intentional omission of the war from his music, and how he came to be associated with the anti-war movement; two, this whole video speaks to the question of authenticity -- because, is it even Dylan in the video? We never see his face. Also, the lyrics of the song--Most Likely You'll Go Your Way-- are so much about Dylan questioning some unnamed person's loyalty; interesting, after Greil mentioned the extreme hatred people felt towards Dylan for betraying the folk tradition. In the video, as Dylan walks through the different decades and trends, the statement seems to be that he has has clearly stood the test of time, regardless of the judgment. At the end of the video (3:18), two soldiers run through the shot, and Dylan ignores them, bringing the whole thing full circle. It's a great video and song.

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