Bob Dylan likes to have enjoyable on social media. There’s his X account, dwelling to musings about Nick Cave, A Complete Unknown, and, most not too long ago, the late bluegrass and nation musician Don Reno. Or you may go to his TikTok page, which he launched simply earlier than the platform was (very briefly) banned in the United States. Then there’s the Bob Dylan Instagram account, that includes tour promos and, currently, assorted video clips, principally of outdated films.
Tonight, nonetheless, the Instagram is dwelling to a really totally 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, report store Park Ave CDs. Why did he put up it? Who is aware of—as a result of he didn’t caption it. You’ll be able to watch the video beneath. Pitchfork has reached out to MGK’s representatives for remark.
You could be questioning: Is there a connection between Bob Dylan and MGK that I’m lacking? Probably not. It’s attainable that Dylan is enjoying 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 chance 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 yet met the person he embodied in the Academy Award–nominated film. Nonetheless, Chalamet, whereas portraying Troye Sivan on Saturday Night Live, 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 deliver collectively Dylan and MGK whereas taking a swipe at his eternal nemesis the Weeknd. After the Weeknd paid tribute to the late MF Doom, Barrow compared the act to “machine Gun Kelly dressing as Bob Dylan.”
So, there you’ve got it. Bob Dylan and MGK, now without end intwined. To make amends for extra goings-on within the realm of Dylan, learn Madison Bloom’s review of A Complete Unknown.
