Bob Dylan? Nobel?

[Anonymous]

Dylan won the Nobel for literature. I am a Dylan fan, but this is certainly odd.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/10/14/arts/music/bob-dylan-nobel-prize-literature.html

[Anonymous]

I think the prize committee has watched "Dangerous Minds" one too many times.

Dylan owes Michelle Pfeiffer for this one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nobel peace prize is a joke these days. It used to mean something, but now not really.

He didn't win the nobel peace price. He won it for literature.

If you think of his songs as a collection of poetry, I can understand their choice.

Does this mean I need to worry about Kanye winning? Ugh.

I agree with your observation. It just seems odd that literature would be expanded to include lyrics.

[Anonymous]

Dylan won the highest level of the Dylan/Dillon award.

[Anonymous]

Ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

I think it's pretty easy to be an ignorant armchair critic without apparently knowing any of the basis on which the decision was made.

The committee referenced the works of classical poets (like Homer and Sappho) whose works were likely performed to music, and the influence of similar lyrical poets on English poetry and literature traditions reaching back before Shakespeare's time.

I'm not a Dylan fan at all, but his influence is certainly greater than many poet's, and to compare his lyrics to a hack like Kanye speaks more about your level of intelligence and discourse than it reflects on the committee.

[Anonymous]

One Headlight is an awesome song. Makes sense.

[Anonymous]

I think it's great and well-deserved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One Headlight is an awesome song. Makes sense.

That Jacob's one hit wonder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One Headlight is an awesome song. Makes sense.

That's Jacob's one hit wonder.

I think PP knew that. That's why it's funny.

[Anonymous]

I think it makes a lot of sense. If poetry fits under the Nobel prize for literature, than song lyrics do. Dylan's music always seemed to me to be more valuable for the words than the music (and certainly more than for his actual singing).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it makes a lot of sense. If poetry fits under the Nobel prize for literature, than song lyrics do. Dylan's music always seemed to me to be more valuable for the words than the music (and certainly more than for his actual singing).

Agree entirely with this. The contribution he's made to poetry in the last 50 years has been incredible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it makes a lot of sense. If poetry fits under the Nobel prize for literature, than song lyrics do. Dylan's music always seemed to me to be more valuable for the words than the music (and certainly more than for his actual singing).

+ 1...although I have a certain fondness for his rasp of a voice as well.

[Anonymous]

I don't find it odd at all; I find it well deserved. The songs are poems that happen to be sung with music (which Dylan also writes & plays). Many of the songs rhyme in very clever ways.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One Headlight is an awesome song. Makes sense.

That Jacob's one hit wonder.

Forget 6th Avenue Heartache much?