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What Bob Dylan Is Doing in “Murder Most Foul”
By Kevin Dettmar
March 28, 2020
Bob Dylan’s “Murder Most Foul,” released on Friday, is the first evidence of original songwriting in eight years from one of the most original songwriters of our era.Photograph from Zuma
What a weird new song for Bob Dylan to drop—and what better time to drop it. “Weird” with its full Shakespearean force, as in the “weird sisters” of “Macbeth,” possessing “the supernatural power of dealing with fate or destiny.” And “new”—well, new to us, at any rate……
But all the clichés (including Kennedy riding into Dallas like a cowboy in the third line) aren’t adding up to much. The “Desolation Row”-style associative lyrics actively invite speculation from the kind of amateur sleuth for whom the term “Dylanologist” was coined. Reading through the YouTube comments section, I was initially tempted to compare it to a QAnon-style conspiracy message board—until I began running into literal invocations of QAnon.
The song is seventeen minutes long; “Q” is the seventeenth letter of the alphabet. Coincidence?
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/what-bob-dylan-is-doing-in-murder-most-foul