Bob Dylan's Born-Again Music Fans

Over the span of 50 plus years in the music industry, Bob Dylan’s music has inspired individuals with his unique ability to tell a story with his songs. Each specific song had a message that he wanted to garner the attention for social change within the world. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Dylan who had been become “born-again” released several albums together that went away from his music speaking of social change to that of Christian music.
Many critics didn’t understand why he went away from his popular format of making music. According to Leonard (2016), “Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards saw it as an attempt to sell records, calling the proselyting songwriter “the prophet of profit.” (What Ever Happened to Bob Dylan’s Born-Again Music Fans?, para. 1). …show more content…
During the course of his career, he didn’t shy away from making music that was out of everyone’s comfort zone. When he decided to change the format of his music in the late 1970s and early 1980s, it shocked the entire music industry. Leonard writes (2016), “Listening to the new Bob Dylan album is something like being accosted in an airport.” (What Ever Happened to Bob Dylan’s Born-Again Music Fans?, para. 1). Due to his “born-again” status, Dylan tried to reach a new demographic of listeners who would at first glimpse of his previous music would not ever listen