Bob Dylan cares about you

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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