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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 X
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. It fitted with the 21st-century Dylan, whose latest studio album, Rough and Rowdy Ways, has songs inspired by horror stories and feature him imagining himself as a mixture of Edgar Allan Poe, Indiana Jones and Anne Frank. True, his performing life must stop one day, but as he has just spent last summer touring with country star Willie Nelson – eight years Dylan’s senior at 91 – his competitive spirit may carry him around the world a while longer yet.
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