After a l-o-n-g week of the celebration
Mr Robert Dylan becoming eighty yrs old,
I never heard in the media I follow
what I thought ought to be said about him.
So please accept the following...
There is an argument to be made
that Dylan is to guitar based modern music
what Orson Welles once was to the movies,
both showed an accumulation of new technique
and speeded up the changes in the process
of writing and recording, such that the artist
both were bound to gain more critical acclaim,
than either would have use for in their lifetimes.
Mr Dylan was highly charismatic.
This explains to succeeding generations,
who never witnessed first hand
the awe and wonder with which he was handled
as he described his latest musical reinvention,
even when the change was more of style than substance.
The critics must have enjoyed
'being humbled' as they praised his latest work,
Mr Dylan was surely the popular originator
of what is now called 'the humble brag'*
as he disowned other peoples claims of his genius
where as critics they were sharing the limelight
he clung to as he said he was throwing it away.
*The humble brag is where a person
speaks at such great lengths
about what they don't deserve the credit for,
that the length at which they speak
hides in plain sight the boastfulness
they like and covertly want to be known for.
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