Reading Too Much
Both Lennon and McCartney didn't think that highly of Bob Dylan's lyrics in the 60s. This seems totally anathema considering Dylan's Nobel Prize.
If you like Lennon over McCartney because you thought he was more arty, it's not really true. McCartney was the aesthete. Lennon thought the avant-garde art was a con and had been suspicious of Dylan's lyrics. He was also suspect of the influence of visual and conceptual art on music, which seems wildly counterintuitive given his relationship with Yoko Ono. If he was still alive perhaps he would have thought differently.
I wonder if Dylan's aloofness in regard to the Nobel Prize relates to what Lennon thought about his work, i.e. that it's all just artifice, and what people read into it is all their thing, not the artist's.
If you like Lennon over McCartney because you thought he was more arty, it's not really true. McCartney was the aesthete. Lennon thought the avant-garde art was a con and had been suspicious of Dylan's lyrics. He was also suspect of the influence of visual and conceptual art on music, which seems wildly counterintuitive given his relationship with Yoko Ono. If he was still alive perhaps he would have thought differently.
I wonder if Dylan's aloofness in regard to the Nobel Prize relates to what Lennon thought about his work, i.e. that it's all just artifice, and what people read into it is all their thing, not the artist's.
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