Click the link below and watch the video to his new single "Duquesne Whistle". I don't think I've seen a funnier, weirder, and cooler music video in all my life.
I'm sure he's copping from something, but I'm not hearing "When You're Smiling." (Unless you're referring to a different song than the one I'm thinking of.)
Music videos are the animal print sweatshirts of the entertainment industry. I'd do fine to never see another one again. (Any Beastie Boys video is an exception to this.)
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There's a certain part that really reminds me of the faster-paced Louis Prima version of "When You're Smiling"-- "when you're crying, you bring on the rain. Stop your sighin', won't you be happy again". But it also reminds me of Cole Porter's "Let's Misbehave"-- "When Adam won Eve's hand he wouldn't stand for teasin', he didn't care about those apples out of season." I think it's a melodic turn common in songs from that era.
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So this time around, Bob Dylan plagiarizes "When You're Smiling"?
He certainly lifts regularly, but he lifts quality material and he uses it to create something that fits him. Whoopdi-shit. Bruce took Meet Me at Mary's Place, Tom Waits has borrowed from a huge number of sources, Neil Young has borrowed from Tom Waits, Pearl Jam took Going to California, Zeppelin took....ah.....just...ah.....well....etc etc etc.
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McParadigm wrote:
theplatypus wrote:
So this time around, Bob Dylan plagiarizes "When You're Smiling"?
He certainly lifts regularly, but he lifts quality material and he uses it to create something that fits him. Whoopdi-shit. Bruce took Meet Me at Mary's Place, Tom Waits has borrowed from a huge number of sources, Neil Young has borrowed from Tom Waits, Pearl Jam took Going to California, Zeppelin took....ah.....just...ah.....well....etc etc etc.
Like d,t said, it was an observation. But thanks for the history lesson, I had no idea that sometimes musicians used the work of other musicians as templates.
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i kinda liked it...i see what platypus hears in the song, Dylan has been copying a lot of artists these last records.
theplatypus wrote:
McParadigm wrote:
theplatypus wrote:
So this time around, Bob Dylan plagiarizes "When You're Smiling"?
He certainly lifts regularly, but he lifts quality material and he uses it to create something that fits him. Whoopdi-shit. Bruce took Meet Me at Mary's Place, Tom Waits has borrowed from a huge number of sources, Neil Young has borrowed from Tom Waits, Pearl Jam took Going to California, Zeppelin took....ah.....just...ah.....well....etc etc etc.
Like d,t said, it was an observation. But thanks for the history lesson, I had no idea that sometimes musicians used the work of other musicians as templates.
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VinylGuy wrote:
i kinda liked it...i see what platypus hears in the song, Dylan has been copying a lot of artists these last records.
theplatypus wrote:
McParadigm wrote:
theplatypus wrote:
So this time around, Bob Dylan plagiarizes "When You're Smiling"?
He certainly lifts regularly, but he lifts quality material and he uses it to create something that fits him. Whoopdi-shit. Bruce took Meet Me at Mary's Place, Tom Waits has borrowed from a huge number of sources, Neil Young has borrowed from Tom Waits, Pearl Jam took Going to California, Zeppelin took....ah.....just...ah.....well....etc etc etc.
Like d,t said, it was an observation. But thanks for the history lesson, I had no idea that sometimes musicians used the work of other musicians as templates.
you sound bitter,is everything ok?
These last years? You mean the past 50 years? It's his freaking trademark.
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He is known for it, but loved despite of it. God bless his soul.
Just saying that everybody does it. I think people get excited about Dylan stealing because of the (completely silly) notion that he's a total original. He's a borrower and a thief. A scoundrel. He would never survive in carbonite. And I suppose originality in pop music occasionally exists in form and sonic, if we really narrow down our criteria, but the truth is the structure's too simple for any true songwriting innovation. My point earlier was that you wouldn't waste your time hopping into a Smashing Pumpkins thread or a Neil Young thread to point out a lack of originality. Why would you? But there's something weirdly fetishy about calling out Bob Dylan on the matter, and we react to that.
Also, on a totally unrelated note, I'd like your feedback on my newest album cover:
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