It’s not clear how Mitchell defines “authentic” or what her definition might have to do with Dylan. By those standards, Franz Kafka is an unscrupulous plagiarist as is Aaron Copland and every jazz great. The idea that Dylan is a faker, unless everything he wrote came out of his own imagination-word for word, note for note-is absurd. “After decades of carefully manicured deification by Columbia Records,” wrote the music critic Jonny Whiteside, the time has come “to flout indoctrination and examine Dylan’s track record as a Grade-A phony.” In one corner was a beloved singer-songwriter, in the other, a legend, someone who has been described as the supreme poet of rock 'n' roll.ĭylan’s defenders shot back at Mitchell, saying she acted like “a petulant child.” But Dylan’s detractors chortled: At last, a rock 'n' roll heavyweight had the courage to tell the truth about Dylan. When Joni Mitchell trashed Bob Dylan in an interview with the Los Angeles Times last week, using words like “plagiarist,” “fake,” and “deception,” the music blogosphere caught fire.
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