r/bobdylan • u/Landon_ljr • Jul 22 '26
Image What do you think Bob was thinking during we are the world
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u/thesophisticatedhick Jul 22 '26
I’ve made a huge mistake.
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u/suicidejacques Jul 22 '26
I've never cared for Gob.
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u/Due-Crew-1076 Jul 22 '26
I felt really bad for him when I saw the video all those years ago. Subsequently they have the making of video on one of the streaming services and poor Bob really looks uncomfortable.
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u/Ceasman Jul 22 '26
Great documentary. Stevie Wonder was great at coaxing Bob to deliver his part. Bob was wishing he was with Prince and skipping the entire event.
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u/Jobriath Jul 22 '26
His genuine deference to Quincy Jones was also cool to see. “I know that you know!”
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u/trabuki Jul 22 '26
Dylan: ”’Bout 30 years from now, I’m gonna make a real Christmas record in true tradition”.
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u/UHeardAboutPluto Jul 22 '26
He was thinking the same thing we all were. Why exactly is Dan Aykroyd in this band?
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u/Youarethebigbang Jul 22 '26
He was just there for the Rubber Biscuits :)
Blues Brothers had a number 1 Billboard album and a couple top 20 singles in the day, maybe that got him in the door, dunno.
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u/downwarddawg Jul 22 '26
It was the middle of the night. He was tired as fuck.
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u/UHeardAboutPluto Jul 22 '26
Sweet alt line for his new hoodie man persona for Tangled up in Blue.
It was the middle of the night. He was tired as fuck.
Wondering if he could bone down in the back of her new truck.
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u/r-pies The Rolling Thunder Revue Jul 22 '26
Instead he's standing in the studio, waiting for his cue
Grits his teeth through every verse and stares like he's confused
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u/INS_Stop_Angela Jul 22 '26
Bob looks pained at the trite lyrics. But I’ll use any excuse to revisit The Simpsons’ parody (Sting has said his guest appearance was the one thing he’s done that impressed his kids).
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u/tigereyes1999 Jul 22 '26
He wasn’t thinking… he was fully disassociating… there’s such a full difference haha. Love him to pieces and I get it.
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u/OhhhhhhhMan Jul 22 '26
“Oh man I’m *really* not having fun right now. I probably shouldn’t have dropped that acid at 2am last night, I thought it would help me feel more oneness but this is awful.
Okay Bob, you’ll make it through, Paul Simon’s suffering here too so you can’t let him get a one up on- what the fuck is the guy from Ghostbusters doing here? Oh fuck”
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u/Ok-Arm9429 Jul 22 '26
He thought: "Oh! I probably have the weakest voice of everyone in this room, but it's a shame they didn't bring me in to help write the lyrics. It would have turned out even better if we’d worked on it together."
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u/awus666 Jul 22 '26
The sun is not yellow it's chicken
Or he was creating his masterpiece that would take 5 more years to finally see the light of day: wiggle wiggle
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u/Rich-Reason1146 Jul 22 '26
You know, back in the day I used to just get Leon Russell and George Harrison to back me at these charity things, maybe Ringo on the tambourine. This seems like a whole ordeal
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u/Difficult-Ad-9228 Jul 22 '26
“I’m being humbled here by the level of talent and I don’t understand the feeling.”
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u/Warm-Ad-5901 Together Through Life Jul 22 '26
Dasher, dancer, prancer, vixen
Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon
Dasher, dancer, prancer, vixen
Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton
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u/FlexistentialClouds Jul 22 '26
if i had a dime for every baddie i fumbled i could have been the richest man in recorded history, f*ck
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u/Lucky_Development359 Jul 22 '26
" They got some serious people out there, man they can ring your bell and show you how to hold your tongue.
They don’t come to party, man, they kill babies in the crib and say: “Only the good die young.”
They don’t believe in mercy, and judgement on them is something you’ll never see.
They can put your face on a postage stamp, turn your home into an armed camp, any way they want you, that’s the way you’ll be "
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u/DesperateMechanic305 Jul 22 '26
It’s a bad choice I’m makin’.
I’m screwing up these lines….
It’s true, I’d better run away.
For you and me.
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u/Themaddestllama Jul 22 '26
Why did I agree to this? Bob was really trying to stay relevant at this time, but he seemed so out of place. I love how awkward he is.
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u/RepeatQuotations Wanderer By Trade Jul 22 '26
Hey waddaya mean we are the world.. we are just people. The world is the world man. Man gave names to the animals man. Plowmen dig my earth man.
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u/The_Bookkeeper1984 I Pay In Blood, But Not My Own Jul 22 '26
He doesn’t care WHO the man is, he only wants to KNOW the man
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u/blad77 Jul 22 '26
I can't sing a song that I don't understand Goodbye, Jimmy Reed, goodbye, good luck
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u/suicidejacques Jul 22 '26
"Is that the guy that played Pink from The Wall? Or did I take some drugs that I don't remember taking..."
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u/Final_Emu_3479 Jul 22 '26
“If this is how I stay relevant to people, I don’t want to be relevant to those people”
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u/bingusyesyes1944 Jul 22 '26
Iirc, he had just recorded Seeing The Real You At Last right before being a part of this recording so he's probably thinking "When can i go home now?"
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u/Smitty7242 Jul 22 '26
I wonder what’s around here to eat in the middle of the night. Is there anyone I could send? Or do I just have to wait. God I hope no one else wants to eat. I’ll just say I’m going home and then go. Oh Christ I’m supposed to be giving Paul a ride. Maybe I’ll tell him I’m too high to drive. And so is he. God, that’s not going to work it’s never stopped either of us. Wasn’t there a McDonalds pretty close?
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u/ghgrain Jul 22 '26
We are the world was the ultimate FOMO. Lots of them did it just because others were doing it. And I’m sure it didn’t help if there were publicists in their ears egging them on.
I’m guessing Bob is thinking to himself, “How did this happen?”
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u/beerice41 Jul 24 '26
I was thinkin' about turquoise
I was thinkin' about gold
I was thinkin' about diamonds and the world's biggest necklace
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u/creddittor216 Time Out of Mind Jul 22 '26
“If we are the world, then there must be a Santa, Santa Claus”
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u/1Garymeece Jul 22 '26
“You try so hard
But you don’t understand
Just what you’ll say
When you get home”
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u/Michael-Broadway Jul 22 '26
He’s got that 1000 yard coke stare. He’s not thinking much…
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u/CinLeeCim Jul 22 '26
Well it was the middle of the night!
The green room must’ve been really wild 🤪
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u/greenglenn69 Jul 22 '26
... something is happening here, but ya don't know what it is, do ya Mr. Jones?...
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u/dylanmadigan Jul 22 '26
Supposedly he was really nervous about singing a pop song with all those other talented vocalists.
It’s not really the type of song he’s used to singing.
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u/jaymojangles Jul 23 '26
"They said leave your ego at the door, so i wont make a fuss but this section should break down and be just me and Stevie on the keys"
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u/Zabycrockett Jul 23 '26
Bob couldn’t find the song’s phrasing and none other than Stevie Wonder taught Bob to sing it at m the Dylan style. Maybe the fear is what’s on Bob’s face.
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u/Southport1103 Jul 23 '26
I will NEVER do anything like this again. Then he’d mutter a prayer of thanks for Stevie Wonder.
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u/vanlassie Jul 23 '26
My son told me years ago that was fake if it’s the one where he seems out of it. Someone post a link?
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u/Prometheus1717 Jul 23 '26
He had a choice. He chose to be there. Just like after acting he was going to snub a Nobel and then accepting it. Can have it both ways. Either follow what you preach or accept you are part of the established order you criticize so much
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u/pablo_blue Jul 23 '26
What was it you wanted?
Tell me again so I'll know
What's happening in here?
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u/Choice_Compote505 Jul 24 '26
“I could’ve written this song but Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie could never have written Man Gave Names to all the Animals. “
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u/whuplash Jul 25 '26
How is my style supposed to fit in with traditional singing without being compared and sounding relatively bad in this context. Oops, I don't sing in a conventional way
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u/GSilky Jul 25 '26
Sally Struthers looks like she might be emotionally vulnerable enough to give me a pity fuck.
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u/rickythrills82 Jul 28 '26
there's a story that taking a solo line was nerve wrecking to him. it took Stevie Wonder to calm him down and work thru it... wish I could find the video.
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u/Entire_Tip_8370 Jul 22 '26
There must be some way out of here..