Althouse: "everyone: you can’t dance to bob dylan... me:"

January 28, 2022

"everyone: you can’t dance to bob dylan... me:"

everyone: you can’t dance to bob dylan
me: pic.twitter.com/XrAg6hCeTf
— rebecca ✨ (@ithrewtheglass) January 26, 2022

23 comments:

gilbar said...: some people accept statements as True... Others have to go out and Prove them true

Oh! Sorry, I thought they were saying "DON'T Dance to bob dylan, or maybw just you can't dance; 1/28/22, 8:08 AM
Achilles said...: She is actually pretty good.

She should try to do some more choreography.; 1/28/22, 8:10 AM
Jaq said...: She's got the look right, in my circles, we all dressed like that. Grunge before Grunge was a thing.; 1/28/22, 8:17 AM
Gahrie said...: OK..You can't dance well to Bob Dylan.; 1/28/22, 8:18 AM
MadisonMan said...: I have never heard a person say "You can't dance to Bob Dylan"; 1/28/22, 8:20 AM
What's emanating from your penumbra said...: In the past, people would get silliness like this out of their system in front of a mirror and thus avoid public humiliation. Not all new technologies advance us forward.; 1/28/22, 8:34 AM
What's emanating from your penumbra said...: Achilles said...

She is actually pretty good.

Incoming Achilles, always with the contrarian view. ;); 1/28/22, 8:35 AM
farmgirl said...: Oh, funny!! Hahah!

I’m so glad you love Dylan…
so I don’t have to!; 1/28/22, 8:40 AM
Critter said...: If she is listening to Dylan I have hope for her ability to think independently.; 1/28/22, 8:47 AM
Humperdink said...: American Bandstand 1952-1989 (primarily hosted by Dick Clark) gave rise to the iconic phrase: "It's got a good beat and you can dance to it."; 1/28/22, 8:48 AM
What's emanating from your penumbra said...: American Bandstand 1952-1989

American Blandstand 2022-?; 1/28/22, 8:54 AM
Will Cate said...: Very nice. Just about to try & score tix to see him in @ The Fox Theater in Atlanta.; 1/28/22, 8:55 AM
JK Brown said...: Just came across this yesterday

Nemo enim fere saltat sobrius, nisi forte insanus.
- Cicero
Nobody dances sober, unless maybe he is insane.; 1/28/22, 9:09 AM
Kay said...: Lol; 1/28/22, 9:18 AM
Humperdink said...: Best Dylan song (IMO): Gotta Serve Somebody

" .... it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you're gonna have to serve somebody ..."; 1/28/22, 9:31 AM
Achilles said...: This Person said...

Achilles said...

She is actually pretty good.

Incoming Achilles, always with the contrarian view. ;)

She took a difficult problem and came up with a solution.

And if you actually watch her move she is in rhythm and the movements match the pitch/volume of the music.

You also have to look past the unreasonable expectations people have on physical beauty of performers. She looks like we all look.

At our age we are also reflexively antagonistic to anyone doing anything expressive or creative as this thread demonstrates. As you get older you fear being driven from the tribe more and more so your actions become more conservative and conforming as a result.

This reverses at the extreme end of life.; 1/28/22, 10:09 AM
What's emanating from your penumbra said...: @Achilles

When I read your defense, to me it supports a comment of "brave girl" rather than "she is actually pretty good."

Except for this one: "And if you actually watch her move she is in rhythm and the movements match the pitch/volume of the music." With which I disagree. And I think she is attractive in a girl-next-door kind of way.; 1/28/22, 10:21 AM
PM said...: She's cute and groovy and I like Dylan, so thanks for that.
Might've been Rex Reed or John Simon reviewing a movie who once wrote:
"It was like taking a two-hour walk around your own living room."
A weirdly prescient description of much of social media.; 1/28/22, 11:36 AM
Achilles said...: This Person said...

Except for this one: "And if you actually watch her move she is in rhythm and the movements match the pitch/volume of the music." With which I disagree.

It is easy to dance to dance music.

What she was dancing to was as far from dance music as it gets. To get as far as she did with what she was trying to do took talent.

And I think she is attractive in a girl-next-door kind of way.

That is what I said right? Or did I misstate?; 1/28/22, 11:54 AM
Jaq said...: I think you could dance to ISIS, I really like the driving groove.; 1/28/22, 1:05 PM
Amexpat said...: Temporarily like Achilles, I think she does a good job. The real test would be if she could dance to a whole Dylan song. Might be difficult to sustain.

I remember reading an interview with Pete Seeger. He said he liked to ice skate to Dylan's album John Wesley Harding. That makes sense for a lot of the songs on that album. You stroke on a harmonica beat and glide until the next one.; 1/28/22, 7:39 PM
Saint Croix said...: I don't think people say that about Dylan. Subterranean Homesick Blues is an easy one to dance to.

Can you dance to Radiohead, that's the question.; 1/28/22, 8:17 PM
Biff said...: I'm with Achilles on this one.; 1/29/22, 11:21 AM