You have to have somebody in mind as an audience otherwise there’s no point.
Dylan also pokes fun at his own history of stylistic changes. When he became a rocker, the folkies complained. When he became a country singer, the rockers complained. When he became a Christian rocker, everyone complained. Dylan is ready to do away with all that now, stating:
Some people preferred my first period songs. Some, the second. Some, the Christian period. Some, the post Colombian. Some, the Pre-Raphaelite. Some people prefer my songs from the nineties. I see that my audience now doesn’t particular care what period the songs are from. They feel style and substance in a more visceral way and let it go at that.
What do you think Dylan is saying about the importance of style?
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