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‘I’m literally Joan Baez right now’: gen Z women relate to Bob Dylan’s toxic situationship
The film A Complete Unknown has sparked interest in the folk singers’ doomed romance, and with it the realization that a similar dynamic is ‘happening to girls everywhere’
Photograph: Searchlight Pictures/PAStephen Petrus, a scholar of 1960s folk music and director of public history programs at LaGuardia Community College, believes that gen Z is “expressing solidarity” with Baez online. With her angelic face, long black hair and penchant for performing barefoot in the early days, she earned the nickname of “Madonna”, becoming one of the best-known voices in the 1960s anti-violence movement. Photograph: TikTok user @hey_marrianne (Marianne Natoli)Deidre Rodriguez, a 28-year-old singer who fronts the Austin band Red and the Rebels, posted a video digging at Dylan for fumbling Baez: “How do you bag this woman and then mess it up?”
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