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Mar 02, 2017
Amazed by the comments here. NOT that everyone hated this garbage album, but that they just seem so...surprised by it. C'mon people. Bob Dylan is just another in a long line of seriously over-hyped and over-rated "geniuses". Why that is, well, I'll let you determine that for yourselves. But I suspect it has something to do with, oh, the fact that the New York media mavens and cultural elitist types all do seem to love their own homeboys. Dylan has never been worthy of the heaps of praise he has garnered since day one. That's my opinion, yes, but I have also made it a hobby to actually ASK hundreds, maybe thousands, of people during my life, simple questions about some of these supposed "geniuses" that I myself always disliked intensely. One of those questions was "Do you like Bob Dylan's music"? And guess what? No matter the age group or music preferences, maybe FIVE people in all that time said they did like him. Of course we all know the critics would never go by something as mundane as whether people LIKED something, but I personally could care less what critics say about anything at all. The fact that such a huge percentage of people answered that simple question with a resounding NO says something to me anyhow.That, yes, there IS a bit of a "conspiracy" where arts and entertainment is concerned, and it's always been far more about who you know than anything to do with talent.