Special Request!! | Bob Dylan - It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) Reaction

[@dirtylemon3379]

He was 23 years old when he wrote this song. 23 years old. Let that sink in.

[@TeezMcGee]

Wow! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@TommiBrem]

"Is he a lyricist"... Nobel Prize Laureate actually... Edit: Thanks for spotting the typo, R. Jay! Corrected.

[@mariaarmindapinheirobarbar4885]

He should be given a Nobel prize for every poem he's written and will hopefully write in the future...

[@growsinhouseherbiculturali1100]

People...am I right?

[@bartstarr100]

Edit: PRIZE not price

[@billythedog-309]

@@mariaarmindapinheirobarbar4885 Don't sit on the fence, come right out and say if you think he's any good.

[@futurereflections4097]

He didn’t show up to receive it and ignored it. F the establishment

[@scottsmith1712]

If you really wanna hear him ',rap' Subterranean Homesick Blues is your ticket.

[@jnagarya519]

What was originally called "Talking Blues" originated in very early Black folk-blues. Dylan did that earlier than "Subterranean Homesick Blues".

[@warrenhughes911]

What ..one man!! No drums no bass..like he's could be on your couch

[@warrenhughes911]

Yo.hello..Nobel Prize for literature..fuck Shakespeare..lol

[@jnagarya519]

It was called "talking blues," which he got from Woodie Guthrie.

[@DogFish-NZ]

I feel this is more metaphorical and has never been replicated. He chose this as his outro song when he made a surprise appearance at his 30th anniversary concert. All the legends covered his works but he chose this for himself. Almost like this was his most impressive work in his own mind. The one he chose to do himself. With pride. That version is the greatest piece of his work in my opinion. rappers bow down

[@jbrisby]

"He a lyricist!" Son, he's THE lyricist. Ain't no rapper can do what he did.

[@ArnoSchmidt22]

Eminem can.

[@willwhite9577]

@@ArnoSchmidt22 alright sit down mate

[@ericseiz2014]

Dylan is the greatest6 but no one is your son.

[@-elijahriggs-]

Townes can.

[@andrewtregoning]

@@ArnoSchmidt22 behave

[@alva1370]

Bob Dylan is a poet. If you're into bars, this guy is a rock star.

[@rainydaydreamawy]

I mean, he is an actual rock star.

[@betsyduane3461]

He's a rock star regardless

[@betsyduane3461]

Won a Nobel Prize for his words, the greatest American songwriter ever.

[@spartiate567]

Bod Dylan is America's poet laureate. Officially. Awarded by Jimmy Carter. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2016. I don't know if any other rock lyricists have done so.

[@Bekka_Noyb]

The best lyricist ever - period! ♥ Dylan I'd suggest the following Dylan songs: Tangled Up In Blue, Shelter From The Storm, Things Have Changed, Visions of Johanna, and Like A Rolling Stone

[@misterinadequate3518]

Shelter from the Storm, heck anything from Blood on the Tracks.

[@lisaeischens2352]

Visions of Johanna is one of my all time favorites. There’s so many to choose from with him though.

[@lesevans979]

Brownsville Girl. It's like observing a portrait of a portrait.

[@jnagarya519]

"Not Dark Yet".

[@donniemaher511]

Yes! Tangled Up in Blue! My boyfriend used to sing it to me.

[@goosebandicoot7083]

“Okay he a lyricist?” Broooo a million times yes, please keep reviewing his songs!

[@robertasirgutz8800]

"Sad eyed lady of the Lowlands", is a masterpiece.

[@jiggermast]

Dylan's is surreal, but I do I love Joan's version the best.

[@anastaziajade4604]

Dylan my all time favorite he’s the Shakespeare of our time. Pure genius

[@jayarr961]

'A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall' and 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' are two songs that also could be looked at as precursors to Rap

[@seektruth8662]

This is just one of HUNDREDS of amazing Dylan songs, he's got 39 albums, started in 1961 and has performed in 7 different decades. He's touring right now in Sept 2024. "I was burned out by exhaustion, buried in the hail Poisoned in the bushes an' blown out on the trail Hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn Come in, she said I'll give you shelter from the storm."

[@gnome7292]

Dude I normally don’t like reaction videos but this was a great one. So cool seeing you really listening to the lyrics in this amazing song. He has such a huge body of work and there’s so many great songs. I’d love to see you react to Desolation Row, Visions of Johanna, and Shelter from the Storm. Or if you want more than just guitar and harmonica, check out songs like Ballad of a Thin Man or Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again. Great video and I’m definitely subscribing!

[@TeezMcGee]

man I thank you so much fam! he is really really cool! I can't believe some of the stuff that he puts together

[@johnnyc6258]

ill second all of this and also Tombstone Blues or Highway 61 Revisited

[@gnome7292]

@@TeezMcGee And if you want to hear his proto-rap songs, check out Subterranean Homesick Blues. It’s a folk rock song, but the bars, the lyrics, and the flow make it easy to see why people call it a very early precursor to rap.

[@49dwalin55]

Stuck inside a mobile!! Highway 61 is magic

[@jameshannagan7830]

Masters of War and With God On Our Side two more with great lyrics everyone thinks War Pigs is vicious wait until you hear his lyrics on MOW.

[@lancevaughn432]

Tangled up in blues, like a Rolling Stone, Blowing in the wind, Mr. tambourine Man, . And 100 more

[@pattilapeche]

"He is a rapper." Amen.

[@keef7224]

He is THE lyricist! 🐐

[@jonathanb1406]

Fun fact: He nailed this song in recording first time in this one take.

[@johnflynn5044]

Are you kidding Is he a lyricist ! The best songwriter.. A wordsmith with no peers

[@edprzydatek8398]

A lyricist. Yes. The Nobel Committee agreed. If you like harmonica he has plenty of that in other songs. Great reaction.

[@Kirkunik1]

This is folk music. You didn’t do production. Just you and your guitar should suffice. Bob Dylan was a prolific phenomenon. The vagabond from out of the Midwest with a terrible voice, a mouth harp, guitar and some genius tunes and lyrics. The folk era. Nothing was bombastic. It was honest and raw. It delivered its message through the simplistic beauty of a voice and guitar without all the bells and whistles of rock and roll. The whole folk scene from the 60’s and early 70’s is a treasure trove of great music waiting for the right time to be rediscovered . What better time than when the times are a changin’ .

[@87ventus]

Bob Dylan also was awarded The Nobel Prize for literature. My favorite part in this song is. 🎼 " For those that fear Death's honesty... won't fall upon them naturally..Life sometimes must get lonely"🎶great review thank you✌️

[@debranalbant8559]

I love the surprise and enjoyment in this man I have loved Dylan my whole life. Respect

[@blitztim6416]

‘Money doesn’t talk, it swears’

[@lc65000]

"damn talk to me Dylan" so true. Your reactions are so honest and raw. thanks....love the facial expressions. very real

[@anthonylewis5873]

Thank you young man for doing this. Bob was kicked in the behind by HOLY SPIRIT. He is so humble and gifted. Like no ego. Some Black people in this country will only know what he did for our race and and the Civil Rights movement when they are taught the true history of him. Like at the 21 year old young man standing behind Dr. MARTIN LUTHER KING, making his "I HAD A DREAM SPEECH". Dude it's going to blow your mind. Thank God for that intelligent person that suggested this to you. She helping getting the real history out to some of the world that clueless. Especially Millentals .

[@peterkline7137]

Teez, I get a real kick out of watching you getting blown away by Dylan's lyrics. I'm 72 and have been listening to these songs all my life and I still get blown away exactly the same way you do. What an amazing writer Bob was! Maybe you'll be listening in 50 years too and still be getting blown away.

[@TheLenyon]

Arguably the best lyricist ever. I’d make the case for Leonard Cohen, but you couldn’t fault anyone for picking Dylan.

[@carlrosenzweig1867]

Mine is John Prine, but yeah, I love both Dylan and Leonard Cohen.

[@edprzydatek8398]

Or Phil Ochs or Paul Simon or Gordon Lightfoot....

[@samwaugh1464]

Honestly, no one - not Cohen nor Prine nor anyone else - can hold Dylan's jock; Nobel Prize as a song writer? Never happened before and will not ever happen again. Everyone else is playing for 2nd place.

[@carlrosenzweig1867]

@@samwaugh1464 I couldn't disagree more. But that's ok! I do love Dylan and music is so personal. I have no problem with you feeling that Dylan is in a class of his own. It's interesting to me to see how others react to music even if it's very different from my own reaction. Not to change your mind at all but Dylan did have this to say about Prine “Prine’s stuff is pure Proustian existentialism. Midwestern mindtrips to the nth degree. And he writes beautiful songs. I remember when Kris Kristofferson first brought him on the scene. All that stuff about “Sam Stone” the soldier junky daddy and “Donald and Lydia,” where people make love from ten miles away. Nobody but Prine could write like that. If I had to pick one song of his, it might be “Lake Marie.” I don’t remember what album that’s on.”

[@markhunt4618]

My brother gave me Leonard Cohen's biography for a Christmas present two years ago. I'm you're man is the title Great book. Love them both but if put before a firing squad I would give the palm to Bob but then I'm from Boston and Leonard's A Habitante Go Bruins!!

[@warrenhughes911]

55 yrs ago.. the ORIGINAL rapper!!!

[@ladyshar42]

My Back Pages and Subterranean Homesick Blues. Dylan is the poet laureate of Rock

[@johnnyc6258]

he is THE liricista, hes a poet, won nobel prize for literature for his lyrics, never in the history of humanity has a musician received that honor, and yeah he pretty much was the first rapper when rap didnt exist, just listen to Subterranean Homesick Blues, Great reaction, much love

[@TeezMcGee]

Appreciate the love fam! Fr tho

[@Ksrwilhelm]

Bob Dylan was on stage with MLK during the March on Washington, he was huge in the civil rights movement. "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll", "Blowin in the Wind" and "Hurricane" are examples of that side of his legacy. Also he's the only musician to be rewarded the Nobel Price for Literature. He still releases sick songs to this day, so the guy's basically been the GOAT for 60 years.

[@JayPhonomancer]

Oh man I'm so happy to see someone react to this song specifically. Not many people do Dylan reactions and when they do its usually some of his more straightforward hits. This song is one of my favourite lyrics ever. Just beginning to end incredible. And yeah there is a similarity to rapping as he was very into the "beat poetry" that was happening in the 60's and that is clear in a lot of his speak-singing style. Oh and massive props to Leah for requesting this!

[@jnagarya519]

his foremost influence was Woodie Guthrie, which is where he got "talking blues" -- not "proto-rap" and other such later labels.

[@JayPhonomancer]

@@jnagarya519 I know about Woody Guthrie and talking blues and their influence on Dylan. But it could still be described as proto-rap as it is an early form of spoken lyrics in a song. That's what the "proto" bit means. Like when people say Queen's Stone Cold Crazy is proto-thrash metal. It's not thrash metal but it sounds like the roots of it.

[@jnagarya519]

@@JayPhonomancer The further we get from the facts the more we rationalize and speculate. Dylan doesn't need help being relevant by "updating" the labeling.

[@JayPhonomancer]

@@jnagarya519 Oh I dont think he needs updating either, I just understand how maybe a modern or younger audience would describe this as almost rap or proto-rap. It's probably a music journalist thing too. They create more labels than is necessary I always think.

[@jnagarya519]

@@JayPhonomancer There are more labels for "rock" music than there are kinds of "rock" music.

[@zenpuppy6025]

One person with a guitar and a harmonica, and some of the best lyrics ever written. 😎👍

[@jacksonmorganfroghin4815]

"When you're lost in the rain in Juarez and it's Eastertime too, and your gravity fails and negativity won't pull you through, .........." That begins another great Bob Dylan song from the album Highway 61 Revisited. If he didn't invent rap, he certainly got the ball rolling in that direction. One of my favorites is JUST LIKE A WOMAN which was covered by Richie Havens, the man who opened Woodstock.

[@ArnoSchmidt22]

Just like Tom Thumb's blues...

[@hollybeat6901]

Dylans blowing in the wind was a huge inspiration for Sam Cookes a change is gonna come

[@dylanthompson8511]

I think it was Times they are a-changing that inspired Cooke's song actually

[@leestamper9451]

I recommend Desolation Row

[@gideonrafael]

He got the Nobel Prize for Literature for his songs/lyrics. He is THE lyricist....

[@splitimage137.]

I am SO VERY IMPRESSED that you reacted to this song! Tres Cool! (AND you did MURDER MOST FOUL... you ROCK, dude!)

[@zenhaelcero8481]

"It is not he, or she, or them, or it that you belong to" and "Money doesn't talk, it swears" are right up there alongside "the ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face" tied for some of Dylan's best lyrics.

[@franithleblanc4508]

So glad to hear such a young man appreciate Bob Dylad. He's a storey teller , a poet set to music ! Check out Positively 4th St. and of coarse the song of all songs. " Like a Rolling Stone " He had my heart in 1967 !

[@trudy5963]

Dylan won a Nobel Prize in Literature! He plays the harmonica himself, too.

[@teezee54]

He plays 18 instruments

[@cmortenson3647]

The greatest living American poet. Thanks for doing that song!

[@FleagleSangria]

Teez, I think the more rap and hip hop become accepted as not only a dominant form of artistry currently but also as a historical relevent art form that reflects the world around us we will realize that Bob Dylan was indeed one of the first major artist to rap. It wasnt really called rap but one can call an egg a rock but it is still an egg, right on? Have some peace. We all need it✌🏻

[@melodymakermark]

These lyrics fell from a 23 year old mind. This blows MY mind. First rapper indeed.

[@71tmwsiy]

There have been books published deciphering Dylan’s lyrics...no exaggeration

[@thejamspace3052]

I love seeing all these different people sharing in the same mind blowing experience that Dylan music can provide. It's so touching to see a younger man who doesnt look anything like me react in basically the exact same way I did when I first heard this song. This song in particular is very special to me. I love that this is like a genuine Dylan virgin reacting to one of his greatest songs ever. This isnt an easy song to react to, you just have to experience it and let it go through you. With weed, preferably. Nicely done.

[@gregcable3250]

a lyricist? Only songwriter ever to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

[@jackdorman4894]

This particular album is my all time favorite - the intimate songs, like this one, filled side two AND side one was the first time Bob went into a studio with a full band 🎶 the entire album is amazing 🎵

[@marfak1000]

Try Subterranean homesick Blues

[@brianscott9525]

This song!!!... It's like a kaleidoscopic shifting of breath-taking imagery-ideas-profound truths. A massively poetic stream-of-consciouness. The kind of song one must listen to many times to begin to grasp and savor the magnificence of it.

[@janparish8055]

He rapped before rappers! His lyrics are gold and such a poet!

[@warrenhughes911]

One man!!!!! Like he's on our couch!!!

[@emilyflotilla931]

I wish I could tell you how many young people I've told that Dylan was the original rapper...keep coming back!

[@gogiggs6416]

Dylan was spitting bars before spitting bars was a thing. Now we just need fellow Nobel winner Kendrick Lamar to cover this song. Because, come on, tell me that wouldn't be awesome.

[@peter2010900]

Dear God ~ thank you for Bob Dylan

[@judymeeker2925]

Bob wrote this and most everything he sung. He was a poet.

[@jim7831]

still is

[@vruth23]

Yeah Man, He is The Bob Dylan. The Great, the One and ONLY.

[@philfranco7598]

The greatest of all time , The Master

[@sharondavid-melly1498]

Dylan wrote all his songs. Genius

[@capawanblown9448]

Well back in 2015; use to watch reaction of people on music artist and use to search for anybody react on bob dylan , but not single video on KZbin , but now see so many reactors reacting on his work and still they even don’t know he got noble prize in literature first singer and musician who got noble prize

[@jeffreythaw3333]

A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall...Masters of War...Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands...Just Like A Woman...there are too many to list!

[@ashlealabine6937]

More Dylan PLEASE!

[@warrenhughes911]

Nobel prize for literature!!! Of course he wrote this!!!

[@robertasirgutz8397]

Nobel Prize winner. Great poet. Changed music forever. Started in folk music genre, grew never stopped.

[@geishasas1190]

Bob, woody would be proud. Thank you. You're still the most important influence on rock n roll.

[@rickcooper53]

"Ok, he's a lyicist?" LOL....only one of the best of all times. A Nobel Prize winner.

[@deanwimbridge9318]

None bigger than Dylan noble prize winning for his writing and brilliant musician.👏

[@LiLiJo]

One of the best “rappers” ever.

[@alieninstallation50]

Makes me happy when someone enjoys a good verse

[@unclebob53703]

Brother, he is one of the great lyricists of all time

[@AliasMark69]

I have had the extreme pleasure of seeing Dylan Live 3 times and he did this song. It is amazing how he remembers all those words perfectly. You must react to "Desolation Row" it is AWESOME.

[@bravetherainbow]

One of my favourite songs ever, maybe my favourite Bob Dylan song but he has so many good ones

[@justin.8777]

"Oh he's a lyricist?" Haha my man, enjoy the ride 😎 Dylan's the goat!

[@jimsarinick6532]

my all time fav Dylan song

[@74artgrrl]

This is my favorite Bob Dylan song. It’s involved but so meaningful and good.

[@DogFish-NZ]

On the 30th anniversary album? That is insanely good live

[@UnethicalLogic]

You can say he's the greatest rapper/lyricist...since he won the Nobel Peace Prize.

[@unclesamjones]

He's a Nobel Prize winning lyricist.

[@systemsoversymptomsvisionw9806]

I must have 10 of his albums, but I hadn't heard this one! He's got such a catalogue... Anybody else love "Desire" and Scarlet Rivera on the violin in "Hurricane"?

[@katec8796]

THE GOAT. Shelter From The Storm and/or The Times They Are A Changing are good ones to react to ;)

[@paulschmidtke425]

Yes, great suggestions

[@graceroring3530]

Dylan was hugely influenced by Woodie Guthrie who made talking blues (“rapping”) an art form. Woodie was the father of Arlo Guthrie. Woodie Guthrie wrote This Land is Your Land This Land is My Land.

[@TheDivayenta]

This was the mid-sixties! Revolutionary!

[@Alien_Observer_]

"Is he a lyricist?" LOL

[@nelsonx5326]

Dylan is boss. He was playing the harmonica and guitar at the same time. Wears a special thing to hold the harmonica to his lips. Bob spits out some quick lyrics. He forms imagery with his words. Dylan is boss.

[@FolhetoGrena]

Brooooooooooooooo, please react to more Dylan, great reaction Some suggestions if you're looking for some: Subterranean Homesick Blues Visions of Johanna Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat Desolation Row Jokerman Ballad of A Thin Man Bob Dylan's 115th Dream

[@lt3tretrois]

One of my favorites.

[@gingeoram]

Bob Dylan's latest album, Rough And Rowdy Ways, is as brilliant as everything else he has written and recorded in his career. His insight and musical output seems to be endless.

[@gregoryhurst8483]

Bob won the Nobel Prize for literature, for his incredible bars...lyrics

[@mikmaqwoman]

he is a word genius...he wrote many many tunes that others sing, A genuine writer. He was given the Nobel Prize in literature

[@lisaeischens2352]

He’s a genius.

[@daisysoup158]

I enjoy reactions. I love watching you kids react. Im proud of Bob Dylan as an American.

[@kaydee9358]

Take a look at Angelina, Blind Willie McTell, or The Ballad of Hollis Brown. I remember reading somewhere that, that last one is the "coldest piece of poetry ever written."

[@kevanwillis4571]

"He is a lyricist?" The Nobel Prize for Literature tends to affirm it.

[@sdelan2]

Thoroughly thoroughly enjoyed the reaction. It's my favorite Dylan!

[@luciusmalou4906]

The joint makes it even better because this song was influenced by the like. This is my favorite Dylan song. Check out "Ballad of A Thin Man" and "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream" from that era.

[@cspringer333]

That's why they call him the Godfather of Rap/Hip Hop

[@dougsusie2319]

Mr Tambourine Man, Subterranean Homesick Blues, same Lp.

[@lextek.]

He's a lyricist? LOL Bob has been doing this for about 60 years! This album is from 1965. Now you know why Bob won the Nobel prize for literature in 2016 "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."

[@neverexstinguished]

i love the way at the end, after reading, you say "they just tried to blow my high", that could almost fit one of his songs lmao

[@condor7810]

Many of your observations were actually spot on particularly since you didn't really know Dylan before this. I am a Gen X'er and I have loved Dylan since I was 16 (well after Dylan's peak in the 60's). I met a Boomer who walked out on a Dylan show at a small club in about 1964. Point being: Not everyone gets into Dylan...they can't get past the voice, etc. It is cool that TM "gets it" and has the depth to see the power of his lyricism. Finally, got a a great laugh at how TM was nearly taken out of his high from reading Dylan's wiki page....even the guy's wikipedia entry is deep. Dylan is a musical and songwriting legend.

[@MrTruth-kh9nr]

I’m a huge Bob Dylan fan they say you either love him or you hate him and I always said that the song was the first rap song. The bars are crazy