Bob Dylan likes to have enjoyable on social media. There’s his X account, dwelling to musings about Nick Cave, A Full Unknown, and, most just lately, the late bluegrass and nation musician Don Reno. Or you possibly can go to his TikTok web page, which he launched simply earlier than the platform was (very briefly) banned in the USA. Then there may be the Bob Dylan Instagram account, that includes tour promos and, recently, assorted video clips, principally of previous motion pictures.
Tonight, nevertheless, the Instagram is dwelling to a really completely different form of video. Dylan, or whoever runs his Instagram web page, posted a 2016 video of the Cleveland rapper-turned-rocker MGK (then often known as Machine Gun Kelly) performing on the Orlando, Florida, file store Park Ave CDs. Why did he publish it? Who is aware of—as a result of he didn’t caption it. You possibly can watch the video beneath. Pitchfork has reached out to MGK’s representatives for remark.
You is likely to be questioning: Is there a connection between Bob Dylan and MGK that I’m lacking? Probably not. It’s doable that Dylan is taking part in on the musician’s former stage identify, as a fascination with the Prohibition-era gangster Machine Gun Kelly appears extra up the Nobel laureate’s alley.
One other risk is that Timothée Chalamet launched Dylan to MGK and his music—even when that’s additionally unlikely because the star of A Full Unknown has not but met the person he embodied within the Academy Award–nominated movie. Nonetheless, Chalamet, whereas portraying Troye Sivan on Saturday Evening Dwell, in 2023, referred to himself as “a moisturized Machine Gun Kelly.”
Previous to tonight, just one individual was courageous sufficient to attach Bob Dylan and MGK. That individual, it ought to come as no shock, is none apart from the inimitable Bristol musician and former Portishead and Beak> member Geoff Barrow. In 2023, Barrow thought to carry collectively Dylan and MGK whereas taking a swipe at his everlasting nemesis the Weeknd. After the Weeknd paid tribute to the late MF Doom, Barrow in contrast the act to “machine Gun Kelly dressing as Bob Dylan.”
So, there you have got it. Bob Dylan and MGK, now ceaselessly intwined. To atone for extra goings-on within the realm of Dylan, learn Madison Bloom’s overview of A Full Unknown.
