'Glad to see I'm not the only one that totally doesn't get the music of Springsteen and Dylan.
Maybe some of their followers don't get it either, but they just follow them to be hip with their friends or something.'
It's ego music. Human animals need to identify w the alpha figures - gods (only omnipotent ones), idols, people who exude cool authority, etc. Interesting that dylan is lumped in w springstein. I couldn't 'get' him, iether. He was also one who was very good at divining the the direction the social wind was blowing and cashing in on it, kind of like a 'leader' who looks for a crowd to lead ( al gore, anyone??). Interesting also, that when i was a young jw, my jw friend at the time was seriously into dylan, had his poster up on his wall, etc. That firend, i realized much later, was a controller, a control freak. He went far and high in the wt ranks.
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