Bob Dylan is the sell-outiest

Kelly Nestruck
from The Guardian music blog

How many roads must a man drive down before you can call him The Man? The answer my friends, is one road, if that road is driven down in a gas-guzzling Cadillac Escalade.

Bob Dylan the "countercultural icon" - note the extremely sarcastic quotation marks - has sold out so many times that you'd think nothing would be shocking anymore. He's gone electric, he's gone Christian, he released a live album exclusively at Starbucks. He's even written a song for a movie starring Katie Holmes.

But none of that bothers me. It's the year 2007. Who cares? He's a maverick! He's Dylan!

His latest act of judas-ery, however, is too much for even a cynical, consumerist nihilist like me. Why on earth would someone who possesses the intelligence of Dylan shill for the Cadillac Escalade? Has he not heard that the climes, they are a-changing? I understand the ads are a tie-in with his XM radio show, but SUVs - especially luxury SUVs - are repugnant vehicles.