The Times calls Taylor Swift the “Bob Dylan of our age"

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38 minutes ago, freebit said:

Vocally limited and a bit overrated, yes.

LMAO.

That...is sort of accurate. I think both are excellent songwriters, but vocally...their peers outpace them by quite a bit. Both have a nice (well in Bob's case 'interesting' tone), but not much range nor the ability to belt.

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The article title is clickbaity and, well, that works doesn't it ? 🙂

Try reading the article if you haven't already. We are all free to be fans (or not) of either artist, but they have both undeniably been phenomonons, but separated by 50 years, and that's the hook for the story, rather than an attempt to say that she is exactly like him or is just as good as him. It's as much about comparing the two worlds from which they emerged as it is about comparing the artists themselves. It's a good read.

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This publication be pretending most Millennials and Gen Z cares or know much about Bob Dylan music but hearing a thing or two about him.
 

They need to stop. Taylor Swift is Taylor Swift of any generation. 

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LMAO of all singer songwriters, Bob Dylan? He’s *deeply* political in his work and always has been? Like that’s WHY he is known. He’s been able to write songs that distill complexities of the moment to stunning poetry.

Taylor is a great singer-songwriter and her success is hers to own but that’s honestly just a headline meant to invoke a response like mine for clicks lol they’re in their own lanes and she’s very much in her own thing that she clearly does very well. But that thing is not Bob Dylan’s thing lol

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16 hours ago, Ivy said:

Bob Dylan was extremely political so no I don't think so

 

But I didn't read the article yet..

This is what I was gonna say.  He incorporated his political views in his art.  Taylor usually sings about love and relationships and expresses her political views on social media instead of through her music.

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They forgot to finish the article. Bob and Taylor both got little green boxes with braggy stats in them about how many streams they got and such, but they didn't bother to update Bob Dylan's and it still says the same caption and lyrics that Taylor's says  What a lazy piece of fluff

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20 hours ago, NATAH said:

idk why these PR teams pay for these comparison articles, they just set up artists to be dragged, including gaga

they're all forming their own legacy

It gets people talking whether positive or negative

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On 10/9/2022 at 11:44 PM, freebit said:

Vocally limited and a bit overrated, yes.

Bob Dylan is anything but vocally limited, he literally has 5 voices he can alternate between at will and has impeccable phrasing and timing. Not everyone prefers the tone he sometimes uses but to call him vocally limited is wrong kinda like how I hear the same said about Bowie at times. One does not have to be Gaga or Whitney Houston in order to have a voice suited to their respective style of music. Furthermore, how can you call a man who literally redefined popular music forever and won a Nobel Prize overrated? Taylor Swift is a great songwriter herself and has had a far more consistent level of quality control than Gaga so if she and Dylan are overrated than Gaga is very overrated by your logic.