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Thanks to Bob Dylan, tunes they are a changin’ | Rebecca Nicholson

Old masters and young artists are reexamining objects of desire

I’ve always found a love of Bob Dylan to be elusive. I get it, but I don’t get it, sort of like deep-pan pizza or electric bicycles. Still, I very much enjoyed Bob’s contribution to a new EP called Universal Love, which sees various artists singing classic love songs with a same-sex pronoun twist. Kesha has covered Janis Joplin’s I Need a Man to Love, turning that man into a woman, while Kele Okereke has done The Temptations’ My Girl, as My Guy. It’s indicative of the music industry’s ever-tightening belt that it has been funded by the hotel company MGM Resorts International, which says same-sex unions account for 20 to 30% of wedding ceremonies at its Vegas hotels and hopes Universal Love will provide a soundtrack.

Dylan has taken on the 1929 classic She’s Funny That Way, crooning his love to a male suitor instead. It’s only mildly unusual to hear him sing to a man and only if you’re listening closely, which seems like a great leap forward from the many decades of pop songs that were only ever directed to the opposite sex or, if the artist was being more coy, to “you”. Queer artists explicitly singing to a person of the same gender is a relatively recent development.

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from The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/08/thanks-to-bob-dylan-tunes-they-are-a-changin
via TV In Wigan

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