Bob Dylan Superbowl Ad

[Gabo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHRVoshCwrw

There's something odd about Dylan's face in the ad...

[Lowbacca]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHRVoshCwrw

There's something odd about Dylan's face in the ad...

This is really sad . .

[Pinder's Gone To Kokomo And Back Again]

very sad indeed....

His face looks odd because some idiot decided he had to be wearing as much make-up as Joan Rivers.

[Gabo]

very sad indeed....

His face looks odd because some idiot decided he had to be wearing as much make-up as Joan Rivers.

it might be more than just makeup...

[Gabo]

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[Niko]

Could have been worse 

[Sheriff John Stone]

I liked it.

[alf wiedersehen]

very sad indeed....

His face looks odd because some idiot decided he had to be wearing as much make-up as Joan Rivers.

I'm pretty sure you're right about it being just due to makeup he was wearing.

He was on the cover of Rolling Stone in September and he looks perfectly fine.

[Michael Edwards Love]

I liked it.

Agreed.  He looks great (glad to see the end of the country/western look he's been sporting for a decade plus), he's a dynamic narrator, and it was about as "counter-cultural" a move as he can make at this point.

[Lowbacca]

[...] and it was about as "counter-cultural" a move as he can make at this point.

You're not serious..? This spot is not only poorly written, it's everything but "counter-cultural".

[guitarfool2002]

Did you miss the ad where they were selling Greek yogurt set to an old Dylan song? I couldn't believe my ears and eyes as I watched a bear raiding a convenience store looking for Greek yogurt as Dylan's music played in the background.

It was the Dylan Super Bowl for whatever reasons this year.

[Sheriff John Stone]

Did you miss the ad where they were selling Greek yogurt set to an old Dylan song? I couldn't believe my ears and eyes as I watched a bear raiding a convenience store looking for Greek yogurt as Dylan's music played in the background.

"I Want You" was the song. The game was so boring, I found myself wandering/thinking who was the advertising person who thought of - of the zillions of songs - "I Want You", and how that person had to "sell" that song to a large table of people with quizzical looks on their faces.

[donald]

I couldn't believe what I was seeing.  I couldn't believe what I was hearing.............let the swiss build your watches, let the germans brew your beer......

Made me recall the Victoria's Secret ad from a few years back featuring Bob and Adriana Lima with Love Sick playing over the scene.

Does Bob have any other commercials other than the ones mentioned so far?

I wonder.  Does Bob have a producer/manager who helps him decide when to do a commercial, which commercial,  and how it will "fit" his persona in a positive way?

Aside from the money, I wonder why he chooses to do a commercial.   

[Ovi]

I couldn't believe what I was seeing.  I couldn't believe what I was hearing.............let the swiss build your watches, let the germans brew your beer......

Made me recall the Victoria's Secret ad from a few years back featuring Bob and Adriana Lima with Love Sick playing over the scene.

Does Bob have any other commercials other than the ones mentioned so far?

I wonder.  Does Bob have a producer/manager who helps him decide when to do a commercial, which commercial,  and how it will "fit" his persona in a positive way?

Aside from the money, I wonder why he chooses to do a commercial.  

Because he is Bob Dylan and he'll always do things that people are uncomfortable with and that are not expected of him.

[Michael Edwards Love]

[...] and it was about as "counter-cultural" a move as he can make at this point.

You're not serious..? This spot is not only poorly written, it's everything but "counter-cultural".

I'm serious.  I won't argue with your observation regarding the writing, though I didn't think it was any worse than anything else presented during the Super Bowl.

But, it is most certainly "counter-cultural", in that the media suggests the prevailing culture is "progressive"-left of center.  And this spot was most certainly not that.

He's spent his entire career working against his "type-casting" as some sort of cultural arbiter.  Progressives want a new Pete Seeger?  He goes electric and poetic rather than acoustic and message-driven.  Then he disappears for a few years and comes back with country albums, pointing backwards.  Ten years later, he goes Gospel, pointing right.  A few years back he shows up in a Victoria's Secret commercial, suggesting he's no progressive feminist and now he's promoting a message of American capitalism.

I think he's "counter-cultural" primarily because he keeps irritating the folks who think they can define culture through the media.

[KittyKat]

Bob had a facelift, it isn't just make-up.  He had the kind of face that was sagging with age and he finally got it pulled up. Heck if Brian Wilson can get one, and I suspect Paul McCartney had an eye job (a bad one), why not Bob. I think he did the ad to support the union. Though the money didn't hurt. I'm sure his royaltiesbaren't what they used to be.

[SMiLE Brian]

The rebel becomes the pitchman, Bob has officially done everything!

[pixletwin]

You're not serious..? This spot is not only poorly written, it's everything but "counter-cultural".

I'm pretty sure Bob would be glad to hear that, to be honest.

[SMiLE Brian]

Agreed, I was excited when I saw the ad because only Bob would do something this different at this stage.

[Lowbacca]

[...]

But, it is most certainly "counter-cultural", in that the media suggests the prevailing culture is "progressive"-left of center.  And this spot was most certainly not that.

[...]

I think he's "counter-cultural" primarily because he keeps irritating the folks who think they can define culture through the media.

Good points.

[Sheriff John Stone]

Bob had a facelift, it isn't just make-up.  He had the kind of face that was sagging with age and he finally got it pulled up.

Not disputing this, but...where did you read or hear that? I missed it. You can see his hair was dyed, but a facelift?

[Pinder's Gone To Kokomo And Back Again]

[...]

But, it is most certainly "counter-cultural", in that the media suggests the prevailing culture is "progressive"-left of center.  And this spot was most certainly not that.

[...]

I think he's "counter-cultural" primarily because he keeps irritating the folks who think they can define culture through the media.

Good points.

Those are good points, but I think there's a difference between being a maverick/iconoclast and simply doing something that sucks and is pointless.... and just to sell shitty cars at that.

If he did it for the union, cool. But where's the evidence for this?

[KittyKat]

Bob had a facelift, it isn't just make-up.  He had the kind of face that was sagging with age and he finally got it pulled up.

Not disputing this, but...where did you read or hear that? I missed it. You can see his hair was dyed, but a facelift?

I just looked at the ad again. If he didn't get a facelift,  the stylists must have used facelifting tape to tape the skin of  his face back and up. Lucille Ball was famous for using tape and elastic bands to get a facelift look without a facelift and other actors and actresses used to do it, too. There's an interview with Bob from "60 Minutes" on YouTube where you can compare his face. He had very deep folds of skin from his nose to his mouth area, which are very common as people get older. He also had a jowly, loose jawline. If you watch the Superbowl ad, you'll see his skin folds are gone and his jawline is smooth and lifted up, with no jowls or extra skin around the chin as he used to have. His face in recent years to me looked almost "melted." Now it looks a lot tighter. Make-up can't do that. I guess it will be more obvious if he does more public appearances if his face in the commercial is permanent or the result of using tape and elastic bands to temporarily lift it up.

[rab2591]

Working link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlSn8Isv-3M

An odd ad for sure.

[guitarfool2002]

Dylan's song "I Want You" being licensed in the ad for yogurt had f***-all to do with any union. 

The man's a capitalist. 

The fee to use songs like that in ads can be six-figures and up, depending on the artist.