Bob Dylan is one of the unattainable and mythologized icons of popular music. Or was. In recent months, Dylan has decided to get closer to the town and, since September, he has not stopped publishing messages on X barra Twitter written in the first person. And yes, he is the one who writes the messages recommending restaurants, movies or remembering experiences in Prague, Variety confirms.
In his most recent tweet, published tonight, Dylan echoes the biopic that is about to be released about his life, ‘A Complete Stranger’. Above all, Dylan praises the work of Timothée Chalamet, whom he considers a “brilliant” actor: “I’m sure he will be very believable playing me, or a younger me, or another me,” he says. Chalamet can’t believe it: “I’m freaking out, thanks Bob.” It is not clear if Dylan likes the title of the film or not (“what a title,” he says) but he also recommends reading the book on which the film is based, ‘Dylan Goes Electric’ (2015) by Elijah Wald: “Read the book after having seen the movie.”
In a previous message, Dylan raves about a Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds concert he recently attended in Paris. Specifically, he recommends ‘Joy’, a song included on Cave’s latest album, ‘Wild God’, because its phrase “we’ve all suffered enough / now it’s time to be happy” appealed to him during the live show. “When I listened to her I thought, how right she is,” he says.
This last tweet helps Dylan deny a historical rumor about him. Cheryl Henry, a woman who met Dylan in 1991, tells the singer backstage that at the time her team told her not to establish any “eye contact” with Dylan. The author of ‘Like a Rolling Stone’ denies the rumor: “I’ve never asked anyone not to make eye contact with me, that’s ridiculous.” Dylan then begs the woman to “next time you come to my concert,” to “look him straight in the eyes.” It is a very strange, very unusual interaction between Bob Dylan and an anonymous person on a social network.
Dylan’s tweeting era began with a mysterious tweet in which Dylan congratulated a birthday person named “Mary Jo.” In any case, it is a real curiosity to pay attention to the personal messages that Dylan publishes on Twitter because, in recent years, his interventions on networks have consisted of mourning the deaths of colleagues or friends or promoting reissues of his works. Furthermore, his interviews have been extremely scarce. Lately, equally surprised media such as Vulture or The Wall Street Journal have echoed the news. And also musicians like Marcelo Criminal, who, in reference to the exodus to bluesky, shared an accurate reflection:
It must be admitted that this is not on the other microblogging network https://t.co/kL5qqljho4
— marcelo (@marcelocriminal) November 21, 2024
