Channels they are a changing

Days after I watched the interactive video of Dylan’s 1965 hit “Like a Rolling Stone, I am still not able to shake off its after-glow.

For hours I kept flipping through its 16 channels, watching TV stars lip-syncing the song. I am still tangled up in its brilliance.

I loved the magical moment when Danny Brown eating falafel and a hot dog sings “Beware doll, you’re bound to fall”. When you reach The Bachelor styled reality show you see a girl-fight where the glam-dolls finger-point, neck-swirl while sing-talking “You used to laugh about /Everybody that was hangin’ out /Now you don’t talk so loud /Now you don’t seem so proud /About having to be scrounging for your next meal”. As you flip through the channels, you see Marc Maron’s radio routine where he tells his guest: “You’re invisible now, you’ve got no secrets to conceal.”

Creating a video that does justice to the great Troubadour of Conscience and his legacy, commands an appropriate use of style and medium.

I love the cute couple on the Rom Com channel, and the moment when the guy sings “You’ve gone to the finest school all right, Miss Lonely/But you know you only used to get juiced in it”

Its incredible how new social mediums are able to flawlessly carry a classic soul of yesterday and offer it to its attention deficit masses – (Mashable asked its readers to create Vine videos inspired by your favorite LPs and EPs: https://vine.co/v/hr6a5eg5m09)

Remember the scene in I’m Not There where young Dylan rides a boxcar, and visits a rural family. To encourage him to create songs that belong to his generation, the woman of the house gives him a curt yet a heartfelt advice “”Live in your own time, child. Sing about your own time.”.

When Vania Heymann, the director of this video adds a new interactive digital twist to the single “Like a Rolling Stone’ she does exactly that. Lives her own time.

And what a time it is!

Interview: Director Vania Heymann Talks Making the Interactive Video for Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” (complex.com)
Inside Bob Dylan’s Brilliant ‘Like a Rolling Stone’ Video (rollingstone.com)
Bob Dylan’s interactive video for 1963’s ‘Like a Rolling Stone’ worth the wait (examiner.com)
How Bob Dylan won the Internet (o.canada.com)
Bob Dylan Goes Interactive In New Music Video (tubefilter.com)

2 responses to “Channels they are a changing”

manish

November 26, 2013 at 4:39 am

Just goes to show that classics don’t age; they just become mirrors that reflect the altered realities of changing times. Nice to know that the generation after mine still digs stuff that the generation before mine dug.

1. prajaktamore
  
  November 26, 2013 at 5:54 am
  
  We should never be reluctant to explore new dimensions to something old and classic.