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Embracing X and a turn by Timothée Chalamet: how Bob Dylan is capturing gen Z
As Chalamet plays the singer in the acclaimed biopic A Complete Unknown, the man himself has taken, at 83, to posting on XIn 1965, Bob Dylan was the most fashionable musician in the world. Over the past 60 years, his critical and commercial appeal has fluctuated, but in the 21st century his acclaim has steadily increased in an unusual way for an ageing musician, capped with winning the 2016 Nobel prize in literature.More surprisingly, he’s become hip again, not just with long-term followers but with younger listeners, many adding his music to their playlists for the first time. And he has recaptured the zeitgeist via the most unlikely of means for an enigmatic, grouchy eightysomething: taking up posting on X as others abandon it, and endorsing a biopic, A Complete Unknown, that celebrates the first few years of his career, and conceding – as he has rarely done before – that his past might be as important as his present or future. Continue reading...