In a new interview, Bob Dylan offered up some of his thoughts on contemporary music and streaming, and explained why he thanked Dunkin' Donuts workers in his new book.
, the singer-songwriter got the chance to do some back-in-my-day sermonizing — sharing both astute points, and some rather curmudgeonly ones — about the state of contemporary music and the streaming era.
In the interview, Dylan noted that these days he likes to listen to music on CD and satellite radio, while he still maintains a penchant for old tube record players . He also copped to streaming music, but said he believed this mode of consumption had made music “too smooth and painless.” that streaming has led to music that’s designed to wash over you. Endless playlists to be enjoyed passively — it’s a mode of listening Dylan can’t abide.
But with streaming, as Dylan put it with increasingly vivid and out-there panache, “Everything’s too easy. Just one stroke of the ring finger, middle finger, one little click, that’s all it takes. We’ve dropped the coin right into the slot. We’re pill poppers, cube heads and day trippers, hanging in, hanging out, gobbling blue devils, black mollies, anything we can get our hands on. Not to mention the nose candy and ganga grass. It’s all too easy, too democratic.
Dylan’s old-man-yells-at-cloud thoughts about the staying power of a lot of contemporary music were arguably less shrewd. The artist, who just spent a the “philosophy of modern song,” was ready to assert that very few songs these days have what it takes “to become standards.”
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