{"id":806472,"date":"2020-04-16T22:57:05","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T04:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=985674"},"modified":"2020-04-16T22:57:05","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T04:57:05","slug":"hear-bob-dylans-daring-new-song-i-contain-multitudes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/hear-bob-dylans-daring-new-song-i-contain-multitudes\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Bob Dylan\u2019s Daring New Song, \u2018I Contain Multitudes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/GettyImages-1162177229W.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI Contain Multitudes\u201d is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bob-dylan\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bob-dylan\" data-tag=\"bob-dylan\">Bob Dylan<\/a>\u2019s second surprise new song in three weeks, making it seem increasingly likely that the Nobel Prize winner has a new album on the way \u2013 which would be his first collection of original songs since 2012\u2019s <em>Tempest<\/em>. The Walt Whitman-referencing new song is much shorter and less overtly ambitious than his March release, \u201cMurder Most Foul\u201d \u2013 \u201cI Contain Multitudes\u201d is a delicate ballad with a minimal arrangement (harp-like guitar chords, rumbling cello, tropical steel-guitar, zero percussion), and a Tin Pan Alley melody a la 2006\u2019s \u201cBeyond the Horizon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lyrics, meanwhile, are full of mischief, wordplay, and daring. \u201cI paint landscapes\/I paint nudes,\u201d Dylan sings, with a near-audible wink. \u201cI contain multitudes\u2026 I\u2019m a man of contradictions\/ I\u2019m a man of many moods.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He nods to David Bowie (rhyming \u201call the young dudes\u201d with the title phrase), Edgar Allan Poe (\u201cGot a tell-tale heart\/ like Mr. Poe\/ Got skeletons in the wall\/ of people you know\u201d), Irish poet Anthony Raftery\u2019s \u201cThe Lass from Bally-na-Lee,\u201d and William Blake, among others. And occasionally, he may be intent on pure shock: \u201cI\u2019m just like Anne Frank\/ and Indiana Jones\/ And them British bad boys the Rolling Stones,\u201d he sings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMurder Most Foul,\u201d released in March, is a 17-minute-long song that jumps from John F. Kennedy\u2019s assassination to a kaleidoscopic look at 20th-century America. Dylan\u2019s most recent album was <em>Triplicate<\/em>, the latest in a series of LPs devoted to covers of pre-rock standards.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bob-dylan-song-contain-multitudes-985674\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI Contain Multitudes\u201d is Bob Dylan\u2019s second surprise new song in three weeks, making it seem increasingly likely that the Nobel Prize winner has a new album on the way \u2013 which would be his first collection of original songs since 2012\u2019s Tempest. The Walt Whitman-referencing new song is much shorter and less overtly ambitious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-806472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-13 22:46:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}