Bob Dylan likes to have enjoyable on social media. There’s his X account, house to musings about Nick Cave, A Full Unknown, and, most just lately, the late bluegrass and nation musician Don Reno. Or you may go to his TikTok web page, which he launched simply earlier than the platform was (very briefly) banned in the USA. Then there’s the Bob Dylan Instagram account, that includes tour promos and, currently, assorted video clips, largely of previous motion pictures.
Tonight, nonetheless, the Instagram is house to a really totally different type of video. Dylan, or whoever runs his Instagram web page, posted a 2016 video of the Cleveland rapper-turned-rocker MGK (then often called Machine Gun Kelly) performing on the Orlando, Florida, file store Park Ave CDs. Why did he publish it? Who is aware of—as a result of he didn’t caption it. You may watch the video under.
On his Instagram tales, MGK wrote, “wtf 😳 this was not on my 2025 bingo card 🙏🏻.” He additionally known as the second “so cool” and stated he was “so grateful” for Dylan’s publish.
You is likely to be questioning: Is there a connection between Bob Dylan and MGK that I’m lacking? Not likely. It’s attainable that Dylan is enjoying on the musician’s former stage title, as a fascination with the Prohibition-era gangster Machine Gun Kelly appears extra up the Nobel laureate’s alley.
One other chance is that Timothée Chalamet launched Dylan to MGK and his music—even when that’s additionally unlikely because the star of A Full Unknown has not but met the person he embodied within the Academy Award–nominated movie. Nonetheless, Chalamet, whereas portraying Troye Sivan on Saturday Evening Reside, in 2023, referred to himself as “a moisturized Machine Gun Kelly.”
Previous to tonight, just one particular person was courageous sufficient to attach Bob Dylan and MGK. That particular person, it ought to come as no shock, is none apart from the inimitable Bristol musician and former Portishead and Beak> member Geoff Barrow. In 2023, Barrow thought to carry collectively Dylan and MGK whereas taking a swipe at his everlasting nemesis the Weeknd. After the Weeknd paid tribute to the late MF Doom, Barrow in contrast the act to “machine Gun Kelly dressing as Bob Dylan.”
So, there you’ve it. Bob Dylan and MGK, now without end intwined. To atone for extra goings-on within the realm of Dylan, learn Madison Bloom’s overview of A Full Unknown.
