Bob Dylan is TikToking on heaven’s door after signing as much as the social media app – days earlier than it may disappear from his native US.
The 83-year-old songwriter has arrange an official account, which launched with a 50-second video montage accompanied by a soundtrack that includes Like a Rolling Stone, Knocking on Heaven’s Door and Hurricane. The put up has attracted practically 2m views.
That was adopted by a second put up, a seemingly pointed clip of Dylan at a Nineteen Sixties information convention saying: “Good God, I have to depart straight away.”
Dylan’s embrace of TikTok comes shortly earlier than the platform faces being banned within the US, below a legislation that that has set the app’s Chinese language guardian a deadline of Sunday to promote the American operation.
TikTok has additionally requested the US supreme court docket to briefly block the legislation, whereas President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly contemplating methods of suspending a ban.
Dylan has garnered 42,000 followers since organising the account on Tuesday. He additionally has accounts on Instagram and X, with respective follower counts of 1 million and 485,000.
Customers commented on the doubtless last-ditch nature of Dylan’s look – for his US viewers not less than – with one writing: “In true Bob vogue, displaying up proper on the final minute.”
The songwriter has appeared on TikTok within the wake of the most recent surge in media and listener curiosity in his work associated to the discharge of the film biopic A Full Unknown, starring Timothée Chalamet.
Billboard has reported that streams of Dylan songs have been boosted for the reason that movie appeared in US cinemas, with US streams of his again catalogue greater than doubling from 8m per week in early December to 20m a month later.
Like a Rolling Stone had the largest enhance over the interval, up 232%, in keeping with figures from music information agency Luminate.
Dylan has additionally been posting extra incessantly on X, lately complimenting Nick Cave on his new track Pleasure after seeing the Australian carry out with the Dangerous Seeds in Paris.
Dylan wrote: “I used to be actually struck by that track Pleasure the place he sings ‘We’ve all had an excessive amount of sorrow, now it the time for pleasure.’ I used to be pondering to myself, yeah that’s about proper.”
Writing on his Pink Hand Recordsdata web site, Cave described Dylan’s put up as a “beautiful pulse of pleasure”.
